On 19 November 2011 the Association “Triglav” celebrated the day when must turns into wine – traditional celebration of St. Martin.
Sergij Pelhan from the Slovenian Emigrants’ Association said that, according to the old Slovenian custom, young wine must be baptized and to the honour of St. Martin the event was to be celebrated together with friends.
In the hall of the "Metal" company we spent peasant moments that day with many of our fellow countrymen from Banja Luka, Prijedor, Sarajevo and Belgrade, as well as eminent representatives of the Embassy of the Republic of Slovenia in Sarajevo. We celebrated together with representatives of the Office of the Government of the Republic of Slovenia for Slovenians Abroad – Tadej Bojnec, Suzana Martinez and Polonca Flego, Slovenian Emigrants’ Association – president Sergij Pelhan and secretary Janez Rogelj, City Administration of Banja Luka – deputy mayor Jasna Brkić and vice president of City Assembly Zdravko Josipović, and our dear guests from Society for the Development of Voluntary Work from Novo mesto headed by Branka Bukovec. We were also in the company of our dear sponsors who once again ensured that the celebration be successful.

Our youngest members, pupils of Supply Teaching Lessons of Slovenian prepared a short programme. This was followed by songs and jolly polka performed by a band from Novo mesto.

St. Martin is a holiday of winegrowers and wine. Many of us do not know much about wine. That is why we invited enologist Barbara Pribožič who spoke about how to recognize and evaluate quality wine. We remembered many things long forgotten and also learned much about wine. We had the main ceremony ahead – baptizing of wine. Ceremony would not be complete without godparents and a St. Martin from Novo mesto and in their presence we parted from must and continued celebration with wine.
 
  
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