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Dear compatriots! Congratulations on the holiday of Epiphany. We wish you in this holiday peace and kindness. Epiphany - one of the most ancient holidays of the Christian Church. Its establishment dates back to the days of the apostles. The ancient name of the holidya - "Epiphany" - a phenomenon, or "Theophany" - Epiphany, as it was called "holiday of light", "Holy Light" or simply "light" for God comes into the world on this day, to show the world the light impregnable. On this day people remember how at the age of 30 years Jesus came from Galilee to the Jordan to be baptized with water by John the Baptist. The Gospel tells us that when Jesus was baptized, The Holy Spirit came down as adove. At the same time, the dove was heard a voice that said, "This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.” This is a great day of spiritual enlightenment, when Christ gave the opportunity to the fallen in sin a person to receive the grace of the Holy Spirit after the rite of baptism. Every year on the eve of the Epiphany in the Orthodox Church takes great consecration of water. In Abkhazia, as well as in Russia and other Orthodox countries, there is a tradition of bathing the night of Epiphany, when the faithful in prayer three times immersed in cold water.
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