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  • Child is baptised in the holy waters of the shrine. The complex is built around a miraculous icon which according to tradition was found after the Virgin appeared to the nun St. Pelagia and revealed to her the place where the icon was buried. The icon is widely believed to be the source of numerous miracles. The icon was found on the very first days after the creation of the modern Greek State, henceforth Our Lady of Tinos was declared the patron saint of the Greek nation. The church is officially dedicated to the Annunciation of the Virgin Mary. The major feast of the church, however, is on 15 August when the Dormition of the Virgin Mary (Theotokos) is commemorated by the Greek Orthodox Church
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  • Family and relatives watch a 4 year-old's baptism ceremony in a local Catholic church. Reaching down to the young lad, the priest touches him on the cheek as part of this ancient rite when a Christian is welcomed into the church. The word baptism is a sacrament and an ordinance of Jesus Christ. In some denominations, baptism is also called christening but for others the word "christening" is reserved for the baptism of infants.
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  • Pilgrims being baptised in the River Jordan, Kibbutz Kinneret, Israel.Some half a million pilgrims and tourists come to be baptised in the waters that Jesus was baptised by John the Baptist.
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  • Pilgrims being baptised in the River Jordan, Kibbutz Kinneret, Israel.Some half a million pilgrims and tourists come to be baptised in the waters that Jesus was baptised by John the Baptist.
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  • Family and relatives after a 4 year-old's baptism ceremony in a local Catholic church. Standing in front of family members who tower above him, the lad proudly holds a large candle given to him by a witness after the baptism ceremony itself. The word baptism is a sacrament and an ordinance of Jesus Christ. In some denominations, baptism is also called christening but for others the word "christening" is reserved for the baptism of infants.
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  • Ethiopian Orthodox pilgrims at Lalibela, Ethiopia. During the festival of Timkat (Epiphany), the priest blesses the water before baptising the crowd. Lalibela in northern Ethiopia is famous for it's monolithic roack hewn churches and is one Ethiopia's holiest cities and a centre of pilgrimage for much of the country.
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  • View over the Cathedral of San Rufino and the town at sunset and the valley south of Assisi, Umbria, Italy. In this church Saint Francis of Assisi, Saint Clare, and many of their original disciples were baptised. Assisi is a town in the Province of Perugia in the Umbria region, on the western flank of Monte Subasio. It is generally regarded as the birthplace of the Latin poet Propertius, and is the birthplace of St. Francis, who founded the Franciscan religious order in the town in 1208, and St. Clare, Chiara dOffreducci, the founder of the Poor Sisters, which later became the Order of Poor Clares after her death. Assisi is now a major tourist destination for those sightseeing or for more religious reasons.
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  • View over the Cathedral of San Rufino and the town at sunset and the valley south of Assisi, Umbria, Italy. In this church Saint Francis of Assisi, Saint Clare, and many of their original disciples were baptised. Assisi is a town in the Province of Perugia in the Umbria region, on the western flank of Monte Subasio. It is generally regarded as the birthplace of the Latin poet Propertius, and is the birthplace of St. Francis, who founded the Franciscan religious order in the town in 1208, and St. Clare, Chiara dOffreducci, the founder of the Poor Sisters, which later became the Order of Poor Clares after her death. Assisi is now a major tourist destination for those sightseeing or for more religious reasons.
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  • View over the Cathedral of San Rufino and the town at sunset and the valley south of Assisi, Umbria, Italy. In this church Saint Francis of Assisi, Saint Clare, and many of their original disciples were baptised. Assisi is a town in the Province of Perugia in the Umbria region, on the western flank of Monte Subasio. It is generally regarded as the birthplace of the Latin poet Propertius, and is the birthplace of St. Francis, who founded the Franciscan religious order in the town in 1208, and St. Clare, Chiara dOffreducci, the founder of the Poor Sisters, which later became the Order of Poor Clares after her death. Assisi is now a major tourist destination for those sightseeing or for more religious reasons.
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  • View over the Cathedral of San Rufino and the town at sunset and the valley south of Assisi, Umbria, Italy. In this church Saint Francis of Assisi, Saint Clare, and many of their original disciples were baptised. Assisi is a town in the Province of Perugia in the Umbria region, on the western flank of Monte Subasio. It is generally regarded as the birthplace of the Latin poet Propertius, and is the birthplace of St. Francis, who founded the Franciscan religious order in the town in 1208, and St. Clare, Chiara dOffreducci, the founder of the Poor Sisters, which later became the Order of Poor Clares after her death. Assisi is now a major tourist destination for those sightseeing or for more religious reasons.
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  • Exterior of the Cathedral of San Rufino in Assisi, Umbria, Italy. In this church Saint Francis of Assisi, Saint Clare, and many of their original disciples were baptised. Assisi is a town in the Province of Perugia in the Umbria region, on the western flank of Monte Subasio. It is generally regarded as the birthplace of the Latin poet Propertius, and is the birthplace of St. Francis, who founded the Franciscan religious order in the town in 1208, and St. Clare, Chiara dOffreducci, the founder of the Poor Sisters, which later became the Order of Poor Clares after her death. Assisi is now a major tourist destination for those sightseeing or for more religious reasons.
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  • Night view looking up to the Cathedral of San Rufino and the town at sunset in Assisi, Umbria, Italy. In this church Saint Francis of Assisi, Saint Clare, and many of their original disciples were baptised. Assisi is a town in the Province of Perugia in the Umbria region, on the western flank of Monte Subasio. It is generally regarded as the birthplace of the Latin poet Propertius, and is the birthplace of St. Francis, who founded the Franciscan religious order in the town in 1208, and St. Clare, Chiara dOffreducci, the founder of the Poor Sisters, which later became the Order of Poor Clares after her death. Assisi is now a major tourist destination for those sightseeing or for more religious reasons.
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  • Religious lifestyle choices seen in a faded picture of Christian family morals, outside a Catholic church, on 18th July 2016, at Costa Novo, near Aveira, Portugal. Fading and suffering from green algae, the picture of the perfect family who attend Mass is seen in front of the tall cross and building exterior. There are an estimated nine million baptised Catholics in Portugal 84% of the population, in twenty dioceses, served by 2,789 priests. 19% of the national population attend mass and take the sacraments regularly.
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  • Ethiopian Orthodox pilgrims at Lalibela, Ethiopia. Priest baptises the crowd during the festival of Timkat. Lalibela in northern Ethiopia is famous for it's monolithic roack hewn churches and is one Ethiopia's holiest cities and a centre of pilgrimage for much of the country.
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  • View over the Cathedral of San Rufino and the town at sunset and the valley south of Assisi, Umbria, Italy. In this church Saint Francis of Assisi, Saint Clare, and many of their original disciples were baptised. Assisi is a town in the Province of Perugia in the Umbria region, on the western flank of Monte Subasio. It is generally regarded as the birthplace of the Latin poet Propertius, and is the birthplace of St. Francis, who founded the Franciscan religious order in the town in 1208, and St. Clare, Chiara dOffreducci, the founder of the Poor Sisters, which later became the Order of Poor Clares after her death. Assisi is now a major tourist destination for those sightseeing or for more religious reasons.
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  • View over the Cathedral of San Rufino and the town at sunset and the valley south of Assisi, Umbria, Italy. In this church Saint Francis of Assisi, Saint Clare, and many of their original disciples were baptised. Assisi is a town in the Province of Perugia in the Umbria region, on the western flank of Monte Subasio. It is generally regarded as the birthplace of the Latin poet Propertius, and is the birthplace of St. Francis, who founded the Franciscan religious order in the town in 1208, and St. Clare, Chiara dOffreducci, the founder of the Poor Sisters, which later became the Order of Poor Clares after her death. Assisi is now a major tourist destination for those sightseeing or for more religious reasons.
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  • View over the Cathedral of San Rufino and the town at sunset and the valley south of Assisi, Umbria, Italy. In this church Saint Francis of Assisi, Saint Clare, and many of their original disciples were baptised. Assisi is a town in the Province of Perugia in the Umbria region, on the western flank of Monte Subasio. It is generally regarded as the birthplace of the Latin poet Propertius, and is the birthplace of St. Francis, who founded the Franciscan religious order in the town in 1208, and St. Clare, Chiara dOffreducci, the founder of the Poor Sisters, which later became the Order of Poor Clares after her death. Assisi is now a major tourist destination for those sightseeing or for more religious reasons.
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  • View over the Cathedral of San Rufino and the town at sunset and the valley south of Assisi, Umbria, Italy. In this church Saint Francis of Assisi, Saint Clare, and many of their original disciples were baptised. Assisi is a town in the Province of Perugia in the Umbria region, on the western flank of Monte Subasio. It is generally regarded as the birthplace of the Latin poet Propertius, and is the birthplace of St. Francis, who founded the Franciscan religious order in the town in 1208, and St. Clare, Chiara dOffreducci, the founder of the Poor Sisters, which later became the Order of Poor Clares after her death. Assisi is now a major tourist destination for those sightseeing or for more religious reasons.
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  • Interior with a statue of St Francis of Assisi in the Cathedral of San Rufino in Assisi, Umbria, Italy. In this church Saint Francis of Assisi, Saint Clare, and many of their original disciples were baptised. Assisi is a town in the Province of Perugia in the Umbria region, on the western flank of Monte Subasio. It is generally regarded as the birthplace of the Latin poet Propertius, and is the birthplace of St. Francis, who founded the Franciscan religious order in the town in 1208, and St. Clare, Chiara dOffreducci, the founder of the Poor Sisters, which later became the Order of Poor Clares after her death. Assisi is now a major tourist destination for those sightseeing or for more religious reasons.
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  • Christ on the cross interior of the Cathedral of San Rufino in Assisi, Umbria, Italy. In this church Saint Francis of Assisi, Saint Clare, and many of their original disciples were baptised. Assisi is a town in the Province of Perugia in the Umbria region, on the western flank of Monte Subasio. It is generally regarded as the birthplace of the Latin poet Propertius, and is the birthplace of St. Francis, who founded the Franciscan religious order in the town in 1208, and St. Clare, Chiara dOffreducci, the founder of the Poor Sisters, which later became the Order of Poor Clares after her death. Assisi is now a major tourist destination for those sightseeing or for more religious reasons.
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  • Interior of the Cathedral of San Rufino in Assisi, Umbria, Italy. In this church Saint Francis of Assisi, Saint Clare, and many of their original disciples were baptised. Assisi is a town in the Province of Perugia in the Umbria region, on the western flank of Monte Subasio. It is generally regarded as the birthplace of the Latin poet Propertius, and is the birthplace of St. Francis, who founded the Franciscan religious order in the town in 1208, and St. Clare, Chiara dOffreducci, the founder of the Poor Sisters, which later became the Order of Poor Clares after her death. Assisi is now a major tourist destination for those sightseeing or for more religious reasons.
    20180815_assisi cathedral san rufino...jpg
  • Night view looking up to the Cathedral of San Rufino and the town at sunset in Assisi, Umbria, Italy. In this church Saint Francis of Assisi, Saint Clare, and many of their original disciples were baptised. Assisi is a town in the Province of Perugia in the Umbria region, on the western flank of Monte Subasio. It is generally regarded as the birthplace of the Latin poet Propertius, and is the birthplace of St. Francis, who founded the Franciscan religious order in the town in 1208, and St. Clare, Chiara dOffreducci, the founder of the Poor Sisters, which later became the Order of Poor Clares after her death. Assisi is now a major tourist destination for those sightseeing or for more religious reasons.
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  • Night view looking up to the Cathedral of San Rufino and the town at sunset in Assisi, Umbria, Italy. In this church Saint Francis of Assisi, Saint Clare, and many of their original disciples were baptised. Assisi is a town in the Province of Perugia in the Umbria region, on the western flank of Monte Subasio. It is generally regarded as the birthplace of the Latin poet Propertius, and is the birthplace of St. Francis, who founded the Franciscan religious order in the town in 1208, and St. Clare, Chiara dOffreducci, the founder of the Poor Sisters, which later became the Order of Poor Clares after her death. Assisi is now a major tourist destination for those sightseeing or for more religious reasons.
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  • View over the Cathedral of San Rufino and the town at sunset and the valley south of Assisi, Umbria, Italy. In this church Saint Francis of Assisi, Saint Clare, and many of their original disciples were baptised. Assisi is a town in the Province of Perugia in the Umbria region, on the western flank of Monte Subasio. It is generally regarded as the birthplace of the Latin poet Propertius, and is the birthplace of St. Francis, who founded the Franciscan religious order in the town in 1208, and St. Clare, Chiara dOffreducci, the founder of the Poor Sisters, which later became the Order of Poor Clares after her death. Assisi is now a major tourist destination for those sightseeing or for more religious reasons.
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  • Interior of a side chapel at the Cathedral of San Rufino in Assisi, Umbria, Italy. In this church Saint Francis of Assisi, Saint Clare, and many of their original disciples were baptised. Assisi is a town in the Province of Perugia in the Umbria region, on the western flank of Monte Subasio. It is generally regarded as the birthplace of the Latin poet Propertius, and is the birthplace of St. Francis, who founded the Franciscan religious order in the town in 1208, and St. Clare, Chiara dOffreducci, the founder of the Poor Sisters, which later became the Order of Poor Clares after her death. Assisi is now a major tourist destination for those sightseeing or for more religious reasons.
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  • Interior with an orchestra rehearsal of the Cathedral of San Rufino in Assisi, Umbria, Italy. In this church Saint Francis of Assisi, Saint Clare, and many of their original disciples were baptised. Assisi is a town in the Province of Perugia in the Umbria region, on the western flank of Monte Subasio. It is generally regarded as the birthplace of the Latin poet Propertius, and is the birthplace of St. Francis, who founded the Franciscan religious order in the town in 1208, and St. Clare, Chiara dOffreducci, the founder of the Poor Sisters, which later became the Order of Poor Clares after her death. Assisi is now a major tourist destination for those sightseeing or for more religious reasons.
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  • Interior with candles and portrait of Pope John Paul II in the Cathedral of San Rufino in Assisi, Umbria, Italy. Pope John Paul II served as Pope and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 1978 to 2005. He is called Saint John Paul the Great by some Catholics. In this church Saint Francis of Assisi, Saint Clare, and many of their original disciples were baptised. Assisi is a town in the Province of Perugia in the Umbria region, on the western flank of Monte Subasio. It is generally regarded as the birthplace of the Latin poet Propertius, and is the birthplace of St. Francis, who founded the Franciscan religious order in the town in 1208, and St. Clare, Chiara dOffreducci, the founder of the Poor Sisters, which later became the Order of Poor Clares after her death. Assisi is now a major tourist destination for those sightseeing or for more religious reasons.
    20180815_assisi cathedral san rufino...jpg
  • Night view looking up to the Cathedral of San Rufino and the town at sunset in Assisi, Umbria, Italy. In this church Saint Francis of Assisi, Saint Clare, and many of their original disciples were baptised. Assisi is a town in the Province of Perugia in the Umbria region, on the western flank of Monte Subasio. It is generally regarded as the birthplace of the Latin poet Propertius, and is the birthplace of St. Francis, who founded the Franciscan religious order in the town in 1208, and St. Clare, Chiara dOffreducci, the founder of the Poor Sisters, which later became the Order of Poor Clares after her death. Assisi is now a major tourist destination for those sightseeing or for more religious reasons.
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