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Old 12-24-2019, 11:05 AM
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I've done a little digging - initially trying to read the message on this lady's back, but it is just a regular prayer (Hail to the Virgin Mary, the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost etc etc).

However I did find out that there is another festival that involves baptism that takes place on July 28th - the Baptism of the Rus' when the ancestor state of the Russian-speaking states was Christianised.

It isn't necessarily associated with voluntary immersion the way Epiphany is but it's a popular day for mass baptisms - though the pictures I found all involved a priest. Could it be this is a celebration of that anniversary rather than the winter Epiphany?
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