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On this date the baptism of Jesus is celebrated and in all the islands the Pope throws a cross into the sea as a sign of blessing.

On the eve of this holiday, children sing kalandas. In the Orthodox rite, the Epiphany celebrates not the adoration of the Child Jesus by the Magi as in the Western Christian rite, but the baptism of Jesus in the waters of the Jordan by St. John the Baptist. It is called Theophany. In all the Ionian islands, as elsewhere, the Pope proceeds to a blessing of the waters and throws a cross into the sea. Some divers who are not very cold or very religious sometimes jump into the sea to try to recover the sacred cross...

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