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Owlet
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| | Subject: Re: Rites Around the World Fri Sep 06, 2013 11:25 am | |
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Owlet
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| | Subject: Re: Rites Around the World Fri Sep 06, 2013 11:26 am | |
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Owlet
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| | Subject: Re: Rites Around the World Sun Sep 08, 2013 12:52 pm | |
| During the Cascamorras Festival, and according to an ancient tradition, the people from Baza try to stain with this grease the Cascamorras, a man coming from the nearby village of Guadix to steal the statue of the Virgen de la Piedad, or Virgin of Mercy. He can only recover the statue if he gets there clean, something that has never happened in the five centuries of the ritual.  | |
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Owlet
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| | Subject: Re: Rites Around the World Sun Sep 08, 2013 12:57 pm | |
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Owlet
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| | Subject: Re: Rites Around the World Sun Sep 08, 2013 12:58 pm | |
|  Cascamorras Festival, Baza, Granada, Spain, Sept 6, 2013 | |
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Owlet
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| | Subject: Re: Rites Around the World Sun Sep 08, 2013 1:02 pm | |
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Owlet
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| | Subject: Re: Rites Around the World Sun Sep 08, 2013 1:03 pm | |
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Owlet
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| | Subject: Re: Rites Around the World Sun Sep 08, 2013 1:05 pm | |
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Owlet
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| | Subject: Re: Rites Around the World Sun Sep 08, 2013 1:06 pm | |
|  Cascamorras Festival, Baza, Granada, Spain, Sept 6, 2013 | |
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Owlet
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| | Subject: Re: Rites Around the World Sun Sep 08, 2013 1:10 pm | |
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Owlet
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| | Subject: Re: Rites Around the World Sun Sep 08, 2013 1:11 pm | |
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Owlet
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| | Subject: Re: Rites Around the World Tue Sep 10, 2013 10:45 pm | |
|  Kalderash Rom Rosalinda Radu (R) and her cousin Scumpa Carpaciu stand outside the church during their annual visit to pay tribute to St. Gregory with their families at the Bistrita monastery in Bistrita, Romania, Sept. 8, 2013. Every year thousands of Kalderash from across Romania arrive to visit the monastery and to gather at an open field nearby for a day or more of feasting, dancing, visiting and business dealing. Romania's Roma, many of whom call themselves tsigani, or Gypsies, are divided into different tribes that were once distinctive by their craft. The Kalderash were coppersmiths but today are known for dealing in scrap metal and metal products. Many Kalderash are among Romania's most traditonal and least assimilated Roma and most marry in their teens. | |
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Owlet
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| | Subject: Re: Rites Around the World Tue Sep 10, 2013 10:50 pm | |
|  German businessman Jesse Gerald receives a dab of chocolate cake icing from a member of the Kalderash Roma Radelescu family while holding his Radelescu godson and standing with his Romanian wife Alina at the field near the Bistrita monastery where thousands of Kalderash Roma gathered in Bistrita. Gerald came to Romania 16 years ago and befriended the Radelescu family through business. Today he is a godfather to two of their children. | |
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Owlet
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| | Subject: Re: Rites Around the World Tue Sep 10, 2013 11:10 pm | |
|  A Kalderash Rom woman oversees a pig being grilled on a spit next to a festive family table near the Bistrita monastery where thousands of mostly Kalderash Roma have gathered. | |
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Owlet
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| | Subject: Re: Rites Around the World Tue Sep 10, 2013 11:12 pm | |
|  A Kalderash Rom woman passes money to a relative as others wait to pay tribute and kiss a relic of St. Gregory at the Bistrita monastery. | |
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Owlet
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| | Subject: Re: Rites Around the World Tue Sep 10, 2013 11:16 pm | |
|  Kalderash Rom Maria "Mercedes" Chiciu, 3, shows off her belly dancing skills as her grandmother Exspertiza Dumitru (sitting) looks on at the field near the Bistrita monastery where thousands of mostly Kalderash Roma have gathered. | |
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Owlet
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| | Subject: Re: Rites Around the World Tue Sep 10, 2013 11:25 pm | |
|  Visitors sit on a hillside overlooking the field near the Bistrita monastery where thousands of Kalderash Roma gathered. | |
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Owlet
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| | Subject: Re: Rites Around the World Tue Sep 10, 2013 11:26 pm | |
|  Mihai Mihai, a Kalderash Rom who lived in France for years, reaches over to take a wooden axe while celebrating with other members of his family. | |
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Owlet
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| | Subject: Re: Rites Around the World Tue Sep 10, 2013 11:38 pm | |
|  Kalderash Rom Bratiana Radulescu leads her daughters Gabriela (L), 5, and Irina, 6, after paying tribute and kissing a relic of St. Gregory at the Bistrita monastery. | |
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Owlet
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| | Subject: Re: Rites Around the World Tue Sep 10, 2013 11:45 pm | |
|  Kalderash Roma Bianca Radu (L) and Scumpa Carpaciu walk across the field near the Bistrita monastery where thousands of mostly Kalderash Roma have gathered. | |
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Owlet
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| | Subject: Re: Rites Around the World Tue Sep 10, 2013 11:46 pm | |
|  Kalderash Rom Mihai Istrate proudly holds his grandson, Andrei, who had been baptized earlier in the day, while standing with other members of his family in the church during their annual visit to pay tribute to St. Gregory. | |
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Owlet
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| | Subject: Re: Rites Around the World Tue Sep 10, 2013 11:49 pm | |
|  A family of Kalderash Roma, who had come to pay tribute and kiss a relic of St. Gregory, receive a blessing from a monk at the Bistrita monastery. | |
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Owlet
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| | Subject: Re: Rites Around the World Tue Sep 10, 2013 11:51 pm | |
|  An Orthodox icon showing St. Gregory stands by Kalderash Roma paying tribute and kissing the container of a relic of the saint at the Bistrita monastery. | |
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Owlet
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| | Subject: Re: Rites Around the World Tue Sep 10, 2013 11:53 pm | |
|  Kalderash Rom Mihai Istrate (L) prepares a drink at the sumptuous table he and his family have spread at the field near the Bistrita monastery where thousands of mostly Kalderash Roma gathered. | |
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Owlet
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| | Subject: Re: Rites Around the World Tue Sep 10, 2013 11:55 pm | |
|  Members of the Mihai family dance and celebrate at the field near the Bistrita monastery where thousands of mostly Kalderash Roma have gathered. | |
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