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Lampada - Easter candle

Being a Godmother is "all" about spoiling rotten the Godchildren - or at least it is for me as I am so very far from them. With my hubby, we're lucky enough to have three Godchildren, two girls and a boy, siblings. At Easter time - which in Greece is the most celebrated holiday and this year it's on the 12th of April - tradition wants Godparents buying special, decorated candles for the children to take to midnight mass on Saturday so they can lit it with the New Light. The church's courtyard fills up with people holding tall candles in hand and painted red eggs to "toast" when the celebratory "He's Risen" sounds.

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