In an atmosphere of exhilaration and emotion, the Decapitation ceremony in Mykonos (Pictures+videos)

With religious fervour, the service of demobilization in Agia Kyriaki

The moment of Apostasy is perhaps one of the highlights of Christianity. Jesus after his martyrdom on the Cross,…….
is buried to return victorious after three days. At the time of the Decapitation everything stopped so that the faithful could worship the Body of Christ.

In a climate of overcrowding, hundreds of believers attended today in the Orthodox Churches of the Island the ceremony of the Decapitation of Christ.

A ceremony that was attended by participating in the drama of the God-Man, a crowd of people who came to the Holy Church of Agia Kyriaki to… worship the dead body of Jesus and pray for the Resurrection.

…. as another Joseph of Arimathea, took down the Body of Jesus from the
Cross and helped by the faithful wrapped it in a white sheet
"pure shroud" and …

Late in the evening there will be a procession of the epitaph.

However, despite the sadness of today, enclosed in it the joyful message of the Resurrection, the greatest message of Christianity.

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