At the beginning of 2024, users of social networks began to disseminate reports that PCU allegedly released a new church calendar, which proposes to celebrate Zelensky's birthday. We decided to check if this is really so.

On January 3, the news appeared in Telegram channels about the supposedly new church calendar approved by autocephalous PEC. Bloggers accompanied their posts by several photos. In the first picture - a general view of the detachment calendar with the image of Christ in dark glasses and the inscription "New cool Orthodox calendar." In other photographs - separate days from the calendar. On the sheet with the date of January 7 - a portrait of Verka Serduchka, showing the middle finger, and the inscription: “Not Christmas! Christmas on January 7th celebrates Muscovites and their accomplices. ” The other sheet (May 25) states that this is St. Javelina's Day, which has become a symbol of the struggle against Russian aggression. On the third (January 25) - a portrait of the President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky and the explanation that on this day in 2024 he was 46 years old. Such a calendar was written by such Telegram channels as "Sheikh Tamir"(168,000 views at the time of writing this analysis) and"Ostashko! Important"(124 000).

July 27, 2023 Local Cathedral of PEC confirmed The transition to the Novoyulian calendar, approved in May by the Bishop Cathedral. Thus, Christmas was first celebrated by PCU not on January 7, but on December 25. At the same time, the PCU press service noted that the transition would not be forced for believers: “Parks and monasteries who want to observe the old calendar will have this opportunity-calendar reform will be held without coercion, gradually and consciously.” Therefore, the picture that on January 7, only “Muscovites and from accomplices” celebrate Christmas, could hardly be approved by the PCU.

The transition was scheduled for September 1, 2023, so the official church calendar for 2024 was released in advance. On August 1, the PC website appeared news On the exit from the print of the new calendar, and in several formats. None of them is like the one that users of social networks distributed.

In addition, on the PC website you can Relate With the full content of the new calendar. There is not a day of St. Javelina, nor Zelensky's birthday.

Saint Javelin is not a canonized saint, but a meme associated with the Russian invasion of Ukraine. In 2022, Canadian marketer Christian Boris I started selling Stickers, T -shirts and bags with the image of a Madonna holding the Javelin anti -tank complex (it is actively used by the Armed Forces). Boris received more than $ 1 million and directed this money to the aid of Ukraine. In May, a mural with the image of St. Javelina appeared in Kyiv.

There is no such saint in the calendar. And on May 25, according to the official Calendar of the PC in 2024, the third acquisition of the head of John the Baptist is celebrated, and the days of memory of the Cyprus bishop of Ferapont and the Archbishop of Kherson Innocent are also celebrated.

The same story is the birthday of Zelensky. In the official calendar on January 25, this is the day of the memory of St. Gregory the Theologian.

In addition, in the latter case, there is a gross error in the cover text to the sheet allegedly from the calendar. The signature has the word “Zelensky”, and in Ukrainian the correct spelling is “Zelensky”.

The earliest post with the “new cool calendar”, which managed to find “verified”, was published in the Telegram channel “Sheikh Tamir"January 3 at 12:01 pm Moscow time.

Thus, the church calendar, which proposes to celebrate the birthday of Zelensky and St. Javelina's Day, is Fake. PCU did not let out anything like that, and the spread of fake shots began with the Telegram channel, more than once becoming The primary source of anti -Ukrainian fakes.

Photo on the cover: social networks