site.btaPresident Greets Bulgarians on National Awakeners' Day

Awakening is a unique, entirely Bulgarian spiritual category - a word that has gathered in itself the wisdom and spiritual strength of Bulgarian people, the centuries-old aspiration for progress and freedom, President Rumen Radev said on Friday - Bulgaria's National Awakeners' Day.

The awakeners are the bearers of culture, morality and humane values of the society. An awakener is not always a person of intellectual work and can be anyone who brings enlightenment to others with words and deeds and humbly serves his people, President Radev added. Today's awakeners carry the spark of the ancestors and with their deeds and boldness they defend the Bulgarian identity and awaken the spirits, speak the truth boldly, have the strength to fight ignorance, arrogance and complacency, and follow their ideal of a free and modern Bulgaria, the Head of State added.

The ceremony was attended by Parliament Chair Raya Nazaryan, caretaker Prime Minister Dimitar Glavchev, Patriarch Daniil, Sofia Mayor Vassil Terziev, representatives of state institutions and academia.