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Dear Forum Members,
yes, I am part Russian, but to my shame I don't know most of the language-learning, but slowly.
I found these awesome pictues on the Pravoslavie website-what feast is being celebrated here? What is this place with all the crosses? Why the custom to carry all these crosses on this day?
Thank You!!!
http://www.pravoslavie.ru/foto/set624.htm

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"At the Transfiguration of Christ on the Grabarka, which is called the Mountain of the crosses, all of them Orthodox countries of Eastern Europe attracts thousands of pilgrims. 100 kilometers from Bialystok - or 170 of Sokolki - they go to Grabarka on foot, carrying wooden crosses on their shoulders. These crosses will remain here forever, - dug into the ground among the pine trees that are overgrown mountain, they gave her another name.

Processions of votive crosses, ending that pilgrims passing on his knees three times around the church of the Transfiguration, set the crosses on the hill, go here for two centuries, with a short break in the flowering of the ideology of communism. In 1980, they resumed the Fellowship of Orthodox Youth Holy Mountain Grabarka is for Orthodox Christians in Poland, the center of spiritual life.

The convent of Sts. Mary and Martha in existence since 1947. Many priests are beginning to their spiritual path, an example is the Primate of the Polish Orthodox Church, Metropolitan Sawa

In a joint project portals Pravoslavie.Ru, cerkiew.pl orthphoto.net and continue to acquaint our readers with the life of Orthodoxy in Poland."

Google translation may help.

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