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Blessed in icy waters, fortune in sweet bread
Christmas is not over. At least here in Türkiye, for Orthodox Christians today, Jan. 6, is a big day to celebrate their Christmas Eve, or in other words the Epiphany. Many Orthodox churches in countries like Türkiye, Greece, Russia and Ukraine have not adopted the commonly used Gregorian calendar, which was introduced by Latin Pope Gregory of Rome in 1582. They stayed loyal to their roots, and still use the Julian calendar, created under the reign of Julius Caesar in 45 B.C.