Greek Orthodox customs to honor the dead on Good Friday, the peak of the Passion Week, Greeks go to the cemeteries with the arms full of flowers to lay on the graves of their beloved ones. After washing the graves, they put the flowers in vases and burn incense. A moment of silence and reckon, a tear.

The faithful go then to the cemetery church to pay respect to the Epitaphios. They write the names of the deceased in little papers, the priest will later read them and pray for the dead.

Even graves that look abandoned take suddenly color on the day when Jesus Christ is taken to the Grave.

In Greek Orthodox faith, the peak of Good Friday ends with the procession of Epitaphios, where priests and believers take the icon of Christ in the Gave through the streets……

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