Nikos Konstantopoulos holds a cross as a swimmer kisses it, after a competition to retrieve it from the water during a ceremony to bless the water in Greece's Flisvos beach, at Paleo Faliro near Athens on Monday, Jan. 6, 2015. Similar ceremonies to mark Epiphany were held across Greece on river banks, seafronts and lakes. An Orthodox priest throws a cross into the water and swimmers race to be the first to retrieve it. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
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