The countdown to the Orthodox Easter is set to begin on March 3, when Greece celebrates “Kathara Deftera,” Greek for “Clean ...

He was the lucky swimmer who retrieved the cross in the annual Greek Celebration of Epiphany which involes a blessing of the waters and throwing of the cross ceremony. After the waters are blessed ...

Athanasios Greek Orthodox Church led by the Rev ... Daniel Pop once again offered a short ceremony that included tossing a cross into the Fox River and then retrieving it along with prayers.

During the ritual, a wooden cross was dangled into the river to ... Reverend Dr Andreas Andreopoulos, priest of the Greek Orthodox Church in Reading said: “The celebration of Epiphany in the ...

because I was the first in my family to retrieve the cross.” Petru's family, alongside others in Tarpon Springs, contributed to the St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Cathedral. The congregation's ...