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departure, as well as explain the meaning and significance of the holiday. After that, four women carry the
Epitaphios out of the church and a procession symbolising the journey of the dead Mother of God to her grave circles the temple. The procession is led by local men carrying standards and pennants depicting saints. They are followed by the women with the Epitaphios, while the parish priest walks underneath – it is a local custom (in Jerusalem, the holy icon is taken off the Epitaphios and carried on by the
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