Photo of the Day
Picture of a man emerging from a cross-shaped hole in ice to celebrate the Russian Orthodox Feast of Epiphany
Holy Waters
To celebrate the Feast of the Epiphany, a Russian Orthodox man emerges from priest-blessed, frigid water through a cross-shaped hole in the ice—a ritual believed to protect the faithful from evil. This photo originally appeared in an April 2009 story documenting the growth of the Russian Orthodox church.
