Vadokhryshcha, Davyd-Haradok 2013. Вадохрышча, Давыд-Гарадок 2013 год.
Vadokhryshcha, celebrated January 19, is the great feast of the Theophany, the Orthodox Christian equivalent of Western Christian Epiphany (January 6). Emphasizing the blessing of water in remembrance of the baptism of Christ, this Orthodox feast commemorates the first clear appearance of the Trinity (God revealing Himself through His voice, as the Holy Spirit descending on Christ, as Himself incarnate in Christ).
In Davyd-Haradok in the Stolin District of Polesia, Father Ryhor has re-instituted the practice — widespread in the Orthodox world but repressed under the Soviet regime — of total immersion in commemoration of Christ’s baptism. Parishioners immerse themselves three times in a hole cut through the ice on the River Haryn’.
