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Saturday, June 11, 2005

Kuristo Matsuri (Christ Festival)
From Yahoo! News Photo:


    Japanese women dressed in kimono waltz around the 'tomb
    of Jesus Christ' during a memorial service in Shingo, a village
    in northern Japan, on Sunday June 5, 2005. The memorial
    service, in its 42nd edition, started solemnly with a Shinto
    priest praying and offering a branch of sacred trees. The
    village's lore claims Jesus Christ died there and buried in the
    mound-shaped tomb.
Here's an article about the strange tradition : Jesus in a snowstorm.

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