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Epiphany in Hydra Island Greece
Epiphany 6th January - This day marks the start of the religious calendar in Greece. In churches all over the country, the Orthodox Church celebrates the Epiphany each year with a beautiful morning service of psalms.
In Hydra the church services are followed by a procession to the water's edge where the priests will throw the cross into the water from the centre of the main outside jetty facing the harbour shops more or less opposite the clock tower of the Monastary.
The young boys and girls of the town or village dive into the water to retrieve it. The person who brings the cross back to the priest is doubly blessed for the year. Sensibly the priests tie a piece of rope to the cross just in case!