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2 July 2025

A woman lies on a blanket reading a book on a wooden jetty during warm summer weather in Starnberg, Upper Bavaria, Bavaria, Germany, on July 1, 2025.

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2 July 2025

A man stands alone facing the water in warm evening light at Lake Starnberg in Starnberg, Upper Bavaria, Bavaria, Germany, on July 1, 2025.

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26 April 2025

A woman receives antidoron (blessed bread) from a priest following a prayer service for the late Pope Francis at the Basilica of Saint Dionysius in central Athens, Greece, on April 25, 2025. The traditional offering is given after the congregation pays tribute to the pontiff.

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10 July 2023

The bishop of Santarem Jose Augusto Traquina Maria (R) blesses participants during the Festa dos Tabuleiros (Festival of the trays) in Tomar, Portugal on July 9, 2023. The festival it's held every four years, is dedicated to the Holy Spirit and the tradition dates back at least to the 16th century, although its origin resides in the pagan rituals for the goddess Ceres. Girls from the different parishes of Tomar parade, helped from the sanme number of men, carrying the 'trays' adorned with colored paper flowers and bread for the streets of the city for a route of about 6 km. This years celebration had about 618 Tabuleiros participating and the city was visited from around 700.000 visitors.

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15 April 2023

A priest blesses Easter food with Hoy Water as Ukrainian believers attend the Holy Saturday traditional celebration in St. Michael's Golden-Domed Monastery in Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine on Orthodox Easter Saturday - April 15, 2023. According to the tradition the faithful bring their Easter food in a basket to be purified, it always is Pasha (Easter bread), painted egg (pysanka) among other. Most of Ukrainians are Orthodox Christians or Greek Catholic Christians, both observe the eastern rite of Easter. Kyiv remains relatively peaceful as the Russian invasion continuous and Ukraine prepares for a spring counter-offensive to retake Ukrainian land occupied by Russia.

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15 April 2023

A priest blesses Easter food with Hoy Water as Ukrainian believers attend the Holy Saturday traditional celebration in St. Michael's Golden-Domed Monastery in Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine on Orthodox Easter Saturday - April 15, 2023. According to the tradition the faithful bring their Easter food in a basket to be purified, it always is Pasha (Easter bread), painted egg (pysanka) among other. Most of Ukrainians are Orthodox Christians or Greek Catholic Christians, both observe the eastern rite of Easter. Kyiv remains relatively peaceful as the Russian invasion continuous and Ukraine prepares for a spring counter-offensive to retake Ukrainian land occupied by Russia.

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15 April 2023

A priest blesses Easter food with Hoy Water as Ukrainian believers attend the Holy Saturday traditional celebration in St. Michael's Golden-Domed Monastery in Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine on Orthodox Easter Saturday - April 15, 2023. According to the tradition the faithful bring their Easter food in a basket to be purified, it always is Pasha (Easter bread), painted egg (pysanka) among other. Most of Ukrainians are Orthodox Christians or Greek Catholic Christians, both observe the eastern rite of Easter. Kyiv remains relatively peaceful as the Russian invasion continuous and Ukraine prepares for a spring counter-offensive to retake Ukrainian land occupied by Russia.

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15 April 2023

A priest blesses Easter food with Hoy Water as Ukrainian believers attend the Holy Saturday traditional celebration in St. Michael's Golden-Domed Monastery in Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine on Orthodox Easter Saturday - April 15, 2023. According to the tradition the faithful bring their Easter food in a basket to be purified, it always is Pasha (Easter bread), painted egg (pysanka) among other. Most of Ukrainians are Orthodox Christians or Greek Catholic Christians, both observe the eastern rite of Easter. Kyiv remains relatively peaceful as the Russian invasion continuous and Ukraine prepares for a spring counter-offensive to retake Ukrainian land occupied by Russia.

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15 April 2023

A priest blesses Easter food with Hoy Water as Ukrainian believers attend the Holy Saturday traditional celebration in St. Michael's Golden-Domed Monastery in Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine on Orthodox Easter Saturday - April 15, 2023. According to the tradition the faithful bring their Easter food in a basket to be purified, it always is Pasha (Easter bread), painted egg (pysanka) among other. Most of Ukrainians are Orthodox Christians or Greek Catholic Christians, both observe the eastern rite of Easter. Kyiv remains relatively peaceful as the Russian invasion continuous and Ukraine prepares for a spring counter-offensive to retake Ukrainian land occupied by Russia.

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15 April 2022

A book about Pysanky includes a picture showing the traditional celebration when parishioners bring their baskets of Easter eggs and Easter bread to be blessed at the church. Members of Northeastern University’s Ukrainian Cultural Club hold a Pysanka-making workshop on campus, ahead of Ukrainian Easter. Designs are drawn with wax and the eggs are dyed in layers, beginning with the lightest color and working up to red or black. At the end, the wax is removed to reveal an elaborately decorated egg.

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3 September 2021

A 90 year-old Lepcha Bomthing (Lepcha priest) wearing a feathered hat chants prayers and uses leaves to bless a village girl during an animal sacrifice ceremony to appease evil spirits in a small village deep in the jungle in Sikkim, India, on June 05, 2010. Many villagers have died without any aliments so the Lepcha villages have sent for the Bomthing to get rid of the evil spirits causing deaths in the village. This ceremony is said to protect the village for 180 years after it is preformed.

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3 September 2021

A 90 year-old Lepcha Bomthing (Lepcha priest) wearing a feathered hat chants prayers and uses leaves to bless the sweater of a village girl who could not animal sacrifice ceremony to appease evil spirits in a small village deep in the jungle in Sikkim, India, on June 05, 2010. Many villagers have died without any aliments so the Lepcha villages have sent for the Bomthing to get rid of the evil spirits causing deaths in the village. This ceremony is said to protect the village for 180 years after it is preformed.

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3 September 2021

A 90 year-old Lepcha Bomthing (Lepcha priest) wearing a feathered hat chants prayers and uses leaves to bless the clothing of villagers who could not animal sacrifice ceremony to appease evil spirits in a small village deep in the jungle in Sikkim, India, on June 05, 2010. Many villagers have died without any aliments so the Lepcha villages have sent for the Bomthing to get rid of the evil spirits causing deaths in the village. This ceremony is said to protect the village for 180 years after it is preformed.

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3 September 2021

A 90 year-old Lepcha Bomthing (Lepcha priest) wearing a feathered hat chants prayers and uses leaves to bless a village boy during an animal sacrifice ceremony to appease evil spirits in a small village deep in the jungle in Sikkim, India, on June 05, 2010. Many villagers have died without any aliments so the Lepcha villages have sent for the Bomthing to get rid of the evil spirits causing deaths in the village. This ceremony is said to protect the village for 180 years after it is preformed.

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3 September 2021

A 90 year-old Lepcha Bomthing (Lepcha priest) wearing a feathered hat chants prayers and uses leaves to bless a village girl during an animal sacrifice ceremony to appease evil spirits in a small village deep in the jungle in Sikkim, India, on June 05, 2010. Many villagers have died without any aliments so the Lepcha villages have sent for the Bomthing to get rid of the evil spirits causing deaths in the village. This ceremony is said to protect the village for 180 years after it is preformed.

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3 September 2021

A 90 year-old Lepcha Bomthing (Lepcha priest) wearing a feathered hat chants prayers and uses leaves to bless a village man during an animal sacrifice ceremony to appease evil spirits in a small village deep in the jungle in Sikkim, India, on June 05, 2010. Many villagers have died without any aliments so the Lepcha villages have sent for the Bomthing to get rid of the evil spirits causing deaths in the village. This ceremony is said to protect the village for 180 years after it is preformed.

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