Swimmer Joshoua Samios holds a cross after retrieving it from the water during a traditional ceremony to bless the water in Greece's Perama port near Athens, Jan. 6, 2009. Similar ceremonies to mark the Epiphany, in which an Orthodox priest throws a cross into the water and swimmers race to be the first to retrieve it, were held across Greece.
(Petros Giannakouris/AP Photo)