Members of two Orthodox churches in Aurora along with city officials met Saturday at the pedestrian footbridge near RiverEdge Park to celebrate the first-ever blessing of the Fox River. Both St. At… ...

Three Memphis parishes — St. John Orthodox, Annunciation Greet Orthodox and St. Seraphim Orthodox — joined by the river for the ceremony commemorating John the Baptist's baptism of Jesus Christ.

The lakeside Blessing of the Waters ceremony, in which ice crosses are dropped into the water, is an annual event for St. Michael’s Antiochian Orthodox Christian Church.

Although temperatures had dipped into the 20s and a bone-chilling wind blew over the Susquehanna River on Jan. 15, the Rev. Stephen Vernak and other Orthodox clergymen barely shivered as they ...

This year's celebration will be highlighted by the Diving for the Cross, presided over by His All Holiness Bartholomew, Ecumenical Patriarch of the Greek Orthodox Church.

The second annual Blessing of the Animals will be from 2 to 4 p.m. Saturday at St. Photios Greek Orthodox National Shrine, 41 St. George St. It is the conviction of the Orthodox Christian faith tha… ...

8/01/16 Blessing of the Water Greek Orthodox — throwing the Holy Cross into the sea at Glenelg. Yanni Frazis who was first to reach the cross. photo Calum Robertson ...

At the blessing, multiple people dove into the river to retrieve a wooden cross, as per tradition. The Holy Apostles Orthodox Church has preformed this blessing for the last 9 years.

TARPON SPRINGS, Fla. (WFLA) — A teen is celebrating a year of blessings after retrieving the cross during the 119th annual Epiphany celebration in Tarpon Springs Monday. For Greek Orthodox ...

8/01/16 Blessing of the Water Greek Orthodox — throwing the Holy Cross into the sea at Glenelg. Yanni Frazis who was first to reach the cross. photo Calum Robertson ...

There, too, young Orthodox men retrieve crosses symbolizing Jesus' baptism in the River Jordan. But nowhere in the world, perhaps, does the ancient ritual take on the pageantry or scale that it ...