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In pictures – spiritual, material mix at Greek mid-August feast

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Kea, Greece AP Blending the spiritual with the material, mid-August marks the high point of Greece’s summer season that attracts crowds of city-dwellers back to their ancestral villages. The 15th August feast of the Dormition of the Virgin Mary is a major religious event coupled with festivals, known as “panigiria”, that can last more than […]