Kyiv residents celebrate traditions of Epiphany on the banks of the Dnipro River (01/25/04)

Kyiv residents celebrate traditions of Epiphany on the banks of the Dnipro River

KYIV - Epiphany, January 19 according to the Julian calendar, was celebrated here at the Ukrainian capital city's Hydropark. Among the multitudes in attendance was Kyiv Mayor Oleksander Omelchenko. Epiphany is also known in Ukrainian as Bohoiavlennia, Vodokhryschi (literally, blessing of the water) or Yordan (as in the Jordan River). Seen in the photos (clockwise, beginning with top right) are: Patriarch Filaret of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church - Kyiv Patriarchate blessing the faithful with holy water; Kyivans lined up for the traditional blessing of the water; and the crowds gathered at the river's edge and on the Venetian Bridge over a tributary of the Dnipro River.

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