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I consider the project of helping battered women as very successful

First Lady Silvia Gašparovičová prepares the traditional Christmas menu

First Lady Mrs. Silvia Gašparovičová donated linear pumps to child cancer patients

Christmas Dream 2010

First Lady at the Council meeting of the Slovak Chamber of Nurses and Midwives

Bethlehem light in the Presidential Palace

Children to Children 2010

Woman Entrepreneur of Slovakia 2010

Folklorists came to greet the presidential couple

St. Nicholas meeting for children from orphanages in the Presidential Palace

First Lady met foreign teachers

Charity concert "Light into the Darkness"

Slovak countrymen in the Presidential Palace

First Lady opened the international conference entitled "Victims of Crime"

Faculty of Civil Engineering in Bratislava in a new robe

Christmas Bazaar 2010

Project ´Go Fit´ also in Bratislava

First Ladies of Slovakia and Cyprus visited an autistic center

V4 Summit in Carlsbad

Presidential couple hosted King Harald V. and Queen Sonja in Banská Štiavnica

Slovak folk art fascinated the Queen

Norwegian royal couple at official visit in Slovakia

The Slovak Foundation of Silvia Gašparovičová – Education and Health for Everybody donated two EKG machines

First Lady met wives of Ambassadors of Ukraine and Cyprus to Slovakia

First Lady awarded scholarships

First Lady met wives of new ambassadors to Slovakia

First Lady visited the Kiev National University of Taras Shevchenko

Women entrepreneurs and manageresses from all over Slovakia met again in Bratislava

First Lady baptized the publication Famous Villas of Slovakia

First Lady inaugurated renovated rooms

First Lady met participants of the Model European Parliament 2010

Computers for nurses

Slovakia will participate in the World Heart Day 2010

First Lady donated linear engine pump to pediatric patients

Young Innovative Entrepreneur 2010

First Lady opened the Artistic Salon 2010

First Lady met graduates of the Motivational Education Program for women threatened by domestic violence and socially disadvantaged women

First Lady met spouses of new ambassadors to Slovakia

Spouse of the Slovak President assesses the 6th year in the Presidential Palace

Mrs. Gašparovičová is the honorary member of the Slovak Chamber of Nurses and Midwives

First Lady at a meeting of the Board of the Slovak Red Cross

Presidential couple supported blood donors

First Lady promoted the World Blood Donor Day

Presidential couple valuated disabled athletes

First Lady promoted public collection

First Lady met Ambassador of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta

Day of Open Doors at the Presidential Palace 2010

Slovak Woman of the Year 2010

First Lady Silvia Gašparovičová in the role of the god-mother

17th charity concert Hearing by Heart

Bernoláčik 2010

First Lady participated in the celebrations of the World Day of Red Cross and Red Crescent in Slovakia

Presidential couple praised winners of the Golden Rescue Cross

President of Slovakia with his spouse celebrated the 50th anniversary of the school in Pezinok - Orešie

Flora Bratislava 2010

Mrs. Gašparovičová welcomed the spouse of the new ambassador of Iceland

Daffodil Day was also supported by the slovak First Lady Mrs. Silvia Gašparovičová

Presidential couple attended the Holy Mass held for the victims of air crash in Smolensk

Presidential couple commiserated at the Polish Embassy

Official visit to Kyrgyzstan

Official visit to Kazakhstan

First Lady opened the construction fair Coneco 2010

12th year of "Slovak housewife" in Budapest

Official visit to Slovenia

We know the Nurse of the Year 2009

First Lady visited the National Integration Center

Presidential couple met successful solvers of high school international olympiads in various subjects

First Lady welcomed the spouse of the new Latvian ambassador to Slovakia

5th charity auction in Banská Bystrica

Mrs. Silvia Gašparovičová is the new Honorary President of the Slovak Red Cross

Presidential couple welcomed representatives of the Slovak Humanitarian Council

Presidential couple welcomed representatives of national minorities

New Year's meeting of diplomats with the presidential couple

New Year´s meeting with officials and members of the Association of Towns and Municipalities

Presidential couple welcomed representatives of churches and religious societies in Slovakia

State honours 2010

Presidential couple welcomed Good News´ carollers

Bethlehem light in the Presidential Palace

Home | First lady | Activities of Silvia Gašparovičová | Year 2010 | Bethlehem light in the Presidential Palace

On 11th December 2010 about 17.30 pm Slovak scouts brought Bethlehem light into the Presidential Palace in Bratislava. Every year the office of the President becomes the first place where the flame from the Church of the Nativity in the Holy Land scouts are handing over. This year the lamp with a little flashing light took First Lady of Slovakia Mrs. Silvia Gašparovičová. "With the Bethlehem light you brought the message of faith, love and understanding among people. I wish you all merry Christmas and a joyous time of Advent till Christmas with this flame in our homes. We will spread the light in our families, among friends and acquaintances."

Bethlehem light in the Presidential Palace

Representatives of the Slovak Scouting Chieftainship got the Bethlehem light at a festive ecumenical celebration in the church Neuerdberg in Vienna and then brought it to Slovakia, directly to the Presidential Palace. Scouts will spread the flame to towns and villages, churches and homes or into social care homes. "Transmission to the public is going to happen mostly during the next weekend, there will be a train chain organized. In several places, at every station where the train stops, the light will be fired," said Chief of the Slovak Scouting Ľubomír Ondrušek.

The modern history of the Bethlehem light began in 1986 in the neighboring Austria. However, it wheren´t the scouts who spread the light already for years around the world, but the creators of a Christmas television event in the town of Linz, who sought to make special the deals to help disabled children.

Through scouts the flame first got to Slovakia during the Christmas in 1990. Since then, this tradition has spread from Austria across Europe. Slovak scouts spread it all over Slovakia into homes, churches or hospitals. Since 19 years they have brought the light to the highest inhabited place in Slovakia – to Lomnický štít in the High Tatras. The Bethlehem light will Slovak scouts forward to the Polish scout in Lysá Poľana, the ligt will further go to Russia.

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