We went for children's service in the village of Mikhailivka. At the end the hostess, Valia, asked us, "Don't you celebrate St John the Baptist's Day? On this day we can get a glass of water from anywhere, the river or our well, it doesn't matter, take a drink of it and it won't spoil or get old the rest of the year."
As we continued our day, we noticed people out enjoying the ice on ponds and on frozen rivers, a few more than normal, probably because it was a holiday.
We also saw a priest in one village going from house to house to bless the people with "holy" water, in honor of this holiday. I snapped a picture of him to show you but it was hurried and too blurry.
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Was it the same day in Lishnya when we saw the priest getting his holy water out of the well and sprinkling chalk in it? I remember that we were making Valentines, and I was so afraid he would sprinkle water on our Valentines and ruin them.
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