Every village in Slavonia celebrates the day of patron Saint of that place. It is the Saint who the church in the village is dedicated to. It is a holiday for all the villagers.
Budrovci is a little village near Djakoo, and we celebrate the day of St.Nicolas, th 6th of December. The celebration includes the holly mass that is attended by the all members of the family. The priest preaches about the work and life of the saint. We celebrate that holiday in our homes with great joy. We have luck that the patron of our village is the most famous and beloved saint all over the world. St. Nicolas was the patron of the poor, sailors and most of all children. He shared all his property with those who didn`t have anything, but he didn`t want them to feel uneasy for receiving gifts, so he managed to give them presents secretly. Because of his kindness and godnees of his heart, our villagers wrote a little poem for him.

We prepare for that day a week in advance, women bake cakes, cook typical Slavonian dishes. We expect guests to come, so we clean the house to welcome them. The more guests arrive, the greater honour the family receive. That is the day when our relatives whom we haven`t seen for a long time come. We go together to church and after the mass we buy something for ourselves on the stalls in front of the church. The whole day the guests come and go. We expect all our friend to come. We serve to our guests typical Slavonian dinner which starts with chicken soup with famous home-made pasta. After that we serve boiled meat with some sauce. The third dish is “sarma”, a dish of minced meat enrolled in sauerkraut. The last course is baked pork. For desert we serve different kinds of cakes. Slavonian women are really good at making cakes. They prepare many different sorts of cakes. The greater number of cakes a woman makes, the better cook she is considered. It is the custom that each guest brings home some of the cakes for those members of his families who were not present in our home

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