Epiphany: What we celebrate today and why we throw the Cross into the sea

The great Despotic celebration of the memory of the Baptism of Jesus Christ in the Jordan River from St. John the Baptist. Epiphany is the third and final celebration of Christmas Day 12. CORVERSE The name of the Epiphanies came from God’s voice heard on Earth, that is, from the revelation of the three persons of the Holy Trinity that occurred according to three relative evangelical passages. The festival of Theophanies is also known as the Surface or Lights (Fest of Lights), as the Alytikio says at the end “Christ came to illuminate the world, bulging it and spiritually through Baptism and Christ”. When the memory of Jesus ’ Baptism was established is not known with certainty. But it seems that he appeared very early in the early Church of Christians. CORVERSE During the evangelizing passages early in the 30th year of Jesus ’ age, John (the Baptist), the son of Zechariah and Elizabeth, the then chosen Baptist, who was six months older than Christ, and lived in the wilderness, practicing and preaching baptism of repentance, also surprisedly baptized Jesus in the Jordan River. During Baptism the Holy Spirit descended from heaven in the form of a dove to Jesus and at the same time from heaven a voice was heard saying that: “This is my Son, who is beloved in the O I have welcomed”. This phrase refers to the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke, while absent from that of John. This is also the only time of appearance, on Earth, of the Holy and homoous and indivisible Trinity under the full “mystery” of the Deity. The main ceremonies of the Theophanean Great Sanctification (Religious ceremony taking place within the Churches). Dive the Holy Cross (Religious ceremony that follows the Great Sanctuary and becomes the diving of the Cross on a sea coast, within ports, banks of rivers or lakes and the need in water tanks such as Athens. Official dive of the Cross: State, Politics and Religious (Archive) celebration of the official dive of the Cross where the Authorities of Chora attend. Since the early 1900s official dive was set to take place in Piraeus against the old royal dock or the old Town Hall, today in front of the Church of Agios Spyridon. Similar ceremonies are held in all the prefectures of the country. The main ritual of the day of Theophanes is the “sacrifice of water n” by diving (throwing) of the Cross in imitation of the Baptism of the God-man. In Greek etiology, however, this Sanctification also has the meaning of cleanness, purification of people and its discharge from the influence of demons. The latter concept is certainly not Christian, however, it has roots in ancient worship. In most parts of Greece the sanctification is for the first time on the eve of the Epiphanies called “Protagasis” or “Illumination”. The priest returns all the houses and with the Cross and a royal clone “saints” or “lighten” the spaces of the houses. Protagiasis is also the effective means by which goblins escape wildly except for the lighting of a large outdoor fire. The Great Sanctification takes place on the day of the Epiphany within the Churches on a special platform decorated on which a large vessel full of water is brought. Subsequently, there is the diving of the Cross at sea or in a nearby river or lake or in the need in a tank (as in Athens). The diving of the Cross, in popular faith gives water laxative and purifying abilities. Absolute (Download) I am the son of the LORD that is baptized of the LORD, and the Trinity is made manifest in worship: the great Bornetor, the voice, bears witness to thee, beloved to thee, and the Spirit hath seen doves, surely the word is safe. The glorious Christ God, and the world you have enlightened. And the rendering: As you were baptized Lord in Jordan (river), (us) her pilgrimage (Saint) was revealed Trinity, because Father’s voice witnessed you by naming you “Dear Son”, and the (saint) Spirit in the form of doves assured the infallibility of speech. Christ, God who has come forth and who has enlightened the world, glory to thee.