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Apple-Blessing feast (part III), Azdamichy 2011.  Яблычны Спас (частка ІІІ), Аздамічы 2011 год. The Orthodox Apple-Blessing feast on August 19 is one of the most important church services in Azdamichy’s cycle of the year.  The church overflows with three generations of parish families.

Apple-Blessing Feast (part II), Azdamichy 2011.  Яблычны Спас (частка ІІ), Аздамічы 2011 год. The Apple-Blessing church service in the central Polesian parish of the Holy Trinity (the villages of Azdamichy and Tsjerablichy) is one of the parish’s most important feasts in the cycle of the year.  This was the fifth time I have attended the… Continue reading Photo of the Day for November 3, 2011: Apple-Blessing Feast II / Яблычны Спас ІІ

To commemorate All Souls’ Day.  Ва ўспамін усіх памерлых вернікаў. All Souls’ Day, when Roman Catholics pay homage at family graves, coincides with the Belarusian pre-Christian rite of Dzjady (Дзяды), which falls at the end of October or beginning of November.  Dzjady is a central observance in the Belarusian cycle of the year.  Families honor… Continue reading Photo of the Day for November 2, 2011

To commemorate All Saints’ Day.  З нагоды Ўсіх Сьвятых. Varapajeva 2008.  Варапаева 2008 год.

Apple-Blessing Feast (part I), Azdamichy 2011.  Яблычны Спас (частка I), Аздамічы 2011 год. Apple-Blessing is an early harvest rite, observed on August 19, Transfiguration Day in the Orthodox calendar.  In memory of children who have died young, people avoid eating new apples or other newly-ripe fruit before the blessing.  It is a traditional Belarusan belief… Continue reading Photo of the Day for October 31, 2011: Apple-Blessing Feast I / Яблычны Спас І

Interior Light (part IX), Azdamichy 2011.  Інтэр’ернае асьвятленьне (частка IХ), Аздамічы 2011 год.

Belarus in Faces (part X), Azdamichy 2011.  Беларусь у тварах (частка Х), Аздамічы 2011 год.

Belarus in Faces (part IX):  Bell-Ringer Mrs. Janina Krot and Father Sjarhjej Surynovich, Church of Divine Providence, Slabodka 2011.  Mrs. Krot rings the church bells every day at noon. Беларусь у тварах (частка ІХ):  Званарка Яніна Крот і айцец Сяргей Сурыновіч, касьцёл Божага Провіду, Слабодка 2011 год.  Спадарыня Яніна звоніць званы штодня а 12-ай гадзіне. … Continue reading Photo of the Day for October 28, 2011: Belarus in Faces IX / Беларусь у тварах ІХ

Samavol’tsy 2011.  Самавольцы 2011 год.

Belarus in Faces (part VIII), Rubjel’ 2011.  Беларусь у тварах (частка VIII), Рубель 2011 год.