Theofania Celebration in Rye ~ Chris Pattas Blog

Jan 6, 2010

Theofania Celebration in Rye

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Every year we love to go to Rye beach (Melbourne) for the Theofania (blessing of the Holy Waters) celebration. There is a race to pluck the Holy Cross from the waters next to the pier. As you can see from the video and images below, the day was lovely and ended with some traditional Greek dancing. Opa!

I made this lovely video to remember the day:

I also took some pictures:

The boys waited patiently for the crowd to gather:

Father Eleftherios Tatsis arrives:

After the cross is caught, he thanks the crowd:

And now for the celebration... some lamb on the spit

Followed by lots of dancing:

Wow, that was a great day. I hope we didn't get sunburnt though!

Read some more here from the local newspaper Neos Kosmos.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...: the boy that caught the cross was father eleftherios grandson great day; January 12, 2012 at 9:30 PM

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