Today, thousands of spectators are joining together in Tarpon Springs for the annual commemoration of Jesus Christ’s baptism, known as the Epiphany celebration. 11:01 Festivities are underway in ...

Then the priest launched the jeweled cross through the air and into the frigid Hudson water. Without hesitation, the nine men ...

Two Orthodox churches from Weirton asked for divine blessings upon the Ohio River during a ceremony at the Steubenville ...

(WFLA) — A teen is celebrating a year of blessings after retrieving the cross during the 119th annual Epiphany celebration in Tarpon Springs Monday. For Greek Orthodox Christians, Epiphany is a ...

young men lined up swim and dive for a cross thrown into the water by the priest. The celebration of the Epiphany is one of the most sacred in the calendar of the Greek Orthodox faith. It is the ...

Tryfon Theophilopoulos, who led the St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Cathedral ... has acknowledged that many other Orthodox churches allow girls to participate in the cross dive.