Dozens of people in Moscow take a dip in freezing water to mark Epiphany, a major holiday in Orthodox Christianity. The ritual marks the baptism of Jesus Christ and is said to cleanse the participant of sin.
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00:00For me, it is important to go to baptism every year, I am a believer, and so I go and feel
00:28good about myself, it's just great for this.
00:42Yes, of course, the tradition is sacred, we are baptized, we are Orthodox people,
00:48for us this tradition is always, and every year we come, we meet with the fact that we give
00:54everything we have, the most important thing.