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The Dormition of the Virgin

Prayers, hymns and devotion in recent days along the streets of the Old City of Jerusalem... where one could see the traditional procession with the icon of the sleeping Virgin Mary for the Feast of the "Dormition of Mary" (as the Eastern Christians call it), that is, the feast of the Assumption celebrated by the Orthodox Churches - according to the Julian calendar - almost two weeks after the Catholic one.