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Kollyva on founders' commemoration
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| [Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note |
Kollyva is boiled wheat covered with coloured sugar. In Orthodox church usually is used on the commemoration of the dead. On Athos, is used also on the saints’ feasts. The biggest of those feasts, concerning the number of people celebrating it, is the one of Virgin’s dormition at Iviron on August, 28th. More than a thousand pilgims are gathered there for the all-night vigil. The so-much elaborated and decorated wheat, some minutes after blessed by the bishop, is mingled with its decoration and distributed to the people.
Here, "kollyva" blessed in Vespers on the commemoration of Monastery's founders and sponsors, depicting one of them, Byzantine Emperor Basilius II.
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hi Theologos
excellent photo and note
regards from orthodox Serbia, Bane