This picture was taken at Saint Naum Monastery, where thousand of pilgrims travel to spend some quiet time in pray, lightening candles and praying to St. Naum to intercede for them. This picture shows some of those melted candles lit to honour St. Naum. Saint Naum Bulgarian and Macedonian: Свети Наум, Sveti Naum, also known as Naum of Ohrid or Naum of Preslav c. 830 – December 23, 910 was a medieval Bulgarian writer, enlightener, one of the seven Apostles of the First Bulgarian Empire and missionary among the Slavs. He was among the disciples of Saints Cyril and Methodius and is associated with the creation of the Glagolitic and Cyrillic script. Naum was among the founders of the Pliska Literary School. Afterwards Naum worked at the Ohrid Literary School. He was among the first saints declared by the Bulgarian Orthodox Church after its foundation in the 9th century. Naum is venerated as a saint also in the Eastern Orthodox Church.

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