A festive service was performed in the Museum of Dionisy’s Frescoes on the Day of the Nativity of the Virgin celebrated on September 21 (September 8 in the Old Style). This church holiday is extremely important for the history of the Ferapontov and the Kirillo-Belozersky Monasteries. It is known that a wooden church in the Old Simonov Monastery from where St. Kirill came to the Belozersk region was dedicated to the Nativity of the Virgin.
They gained a long-awaited victory at the Kulikovo Field on this very day in 1380. The princes of Belozersk gave their lives during this battle. The first wooden church of the Ferapontov Monastery was probably consecrated in 1409 and the first stone cathedral, one of the most ancient in the Russian North – in 1490. Besides, the cathedral of the Luzhetsky Monastery – the second cloister founded by St. Ferapont – was consecrated on this day. Dionisy completed to paint frescoes in the Nativity of the Virgin Cathedral in 1502 (511 years ago) on September 21. The main subject of the painting - the Nativity of the Virgin – is located on the portal above the entrance to the cathedral.
