Saturday 26 March 2016

Holy Saturday: Blessing the Food Baskets in Poland


This is the wonderful Polish Easter tradition of 'Swięconka', where people take their wooden baskets of food to church to be blessed by Catholic priests.  The shot above is taken from a small town in eastern Poland.

The picture below, taken from the Internet, is of the 'Swięconka' ceremony:


Long may such wonderful traditions continue to exist.


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