Nel Corno d'oro ad Istanbul, Turchia

A Greek Orthodox, holds up the wooden cross after it being retrieved by Dimitris Kouzounis, another Greek Orthodox, unseen, during an Epiphany ceremony to bless the water in the Golden Horn in Istanbul, Turkey, Thursday, Jan. 6, 2011. Similar ceremonies to mark Epiphany day were held across Greece on river banks, seafronts and lakes. Bartholomew I, spiritual leader of the world’s Orthodox, threw a cross into the water and swimmers raced to be the first to retrieve it.

(AP/Ibrahim Usta)