Easter (Orthodox) Saturday midnight

They have waited for the news that the light has miraculously been lit in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem and, when the news comes, they process around the church three times carrying the cross. Here they are at the little church in the little park in Borjomi.



The light is distributed throughout the Orthodox world. As I understand it, it is flown in an airplane to Tbilisi (inter alia) and distributed throughout Georgia from there. I asked what used to happen before there were airplanes and no-one seemed to know. There is lots of information on the web: e.g.
http://www.orthodoxinfo.com/general/holyfire.aspx
and this site addresses the fact this miracle is largely unknown in the West - certainly, I knew nothing about it.