Catholic Christmas in Belarus.

Catholic church of St. Simeon and St. Helena,
often also called the Red Church
- the most famous Catholic church in Minsk.

Christmas (Catholic Christmas) in Belarus is a public holiday, as is Orthodox Christmas. 

And this is not surprising - because according to the Catholic Church in Belarus, about 15% of the country's faithful population belongs to it.

On December 25, Christmas services are held in all Catholic churches.

By Christmas, housewives must decorate the house and prepare holiday dishes, first fasting, because fasting lasts until Christmas night.

Catholic church of Saints Peter and Paul in Boruny, Belarus.

Catholic church of Saints Peter and Paul in Boruny, Belarus.

Church of St. Peter and Paul 1700-07, 1747-57 In its walls, the miraculous icon of the Mother of God of the Borunsky is still abiding. 

At the end of the seventeenth century, this image belonged to Nikolai Peslyak, who received it as a gift from his relative, rector of the Polatsk Uniate monastery, and healed from blindness with his help.