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March 26, 2005

Easter Procession, Ólimbos, Greece, 1982

Photograph by James L. Stanfield

Ólimbos native Maria Nicolaidis-Karanikolas: "The procession that takes place on the Tuesday after Easter is one of our older traditions. To honor the dead and celebrate the Resurrection of Christ, we carry icons from the main Orthodox church to the cemetery, where our priest says a prayer over each grave."

—From "Eternal Easter in a Greek Village," December 1983, National Geographic magazine