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  • Christian orthodox ceremonies at the rock-hewn churches in Lalibela, Ethiopia during Mescel, one of the highets days of the Ethiopien orthodox church. The festival is known as Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross in other Orthodox, Catholic or Protestant churches. With its 900-year-old churches carved from rock, the Ethiopian town of Lalibela attracts tens of thousands of pilgrims from all over Ethiopia each year.
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  • Christian orthodox ceremonies at the rock-hewn churches in Lalibela, Ethiopia during Mescel, one of the highets days of the Ethiopien orthodox church. The festival is known as Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross in other Orthodox, Catholic or Protestant churches. With its 900-year-old churches carved from rock, the Ethiopian town of Lalibela attracts tens of thousands of pilgrims from all over Ethiopia each year.
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  • Christian orthodox ceremonies at the rock-hewn churches in Lalibela, Ethiopia during Mescel, one of the highets days of the Ethiopien orthodox church. The festival is known as Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross in other Orthodox, Catholic or Protestant churches. With its 900-year-old churches carved from rock, the Ethiopian town of Lalibela attracts tens of thousands of pilgrims from all over Ethiopia each year.
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  • An exorcism is performed at a rock-hewn church in Lalibela, Ethiopia during Mescel, one of the highets days of the Ethiopien orthodox church. The festival is known as Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross in other Orthodox, Catholic or Protestant churches. With its 900-year-old churches carved from rock, the Ethiopian town of Lalibela attracts tens of thousands of pilgrims from all over Ethiopia each year.
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  • Christian orthodox ceremonies at the rock-hewn churches in Lalibela, Ethiopia during Mescel, one of the highets days of the Ethiopien orthodox church. The festival is known as Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross in other Orthodox, Catholic or Protestant churches. With its 900-year-old churches carved from rock, the Ethiopian town of Lalibela attracts tens of thousands of pilgrims from all over Ethiopia each year.
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  • Christian orthodox ceremonies at the rock-hewn churches in Lalibela, Ethiopia during Mescel, one of the highets days of the Ethiopien orthodox church. The festival is known as Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross in other Orthodox, Catholic or Protestant churches. With its 900-year-old churches carved from rock, the Ethiopian town of Lalibela attracts tens of thousands of pilgrims from all over Ethiopia each year.
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  • Nach einem Exorzismus steht einer jungen Frau die Erschöpfung ins Gesicht geschrieben.
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  • Langsam kommt die junge Frau nach dem Exorzismus wieder zu sich.
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  • Ein Geistlicher führt einen Exorzismus an einer jungen Frau durch, welche nach der Berührung durch das Kreuz von fünf Personen festgehalten werden muss.
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  • Frauen versammeln sich zum Gebet am Eingang einer der Bet Maryam, der ältesten der 11 Felsenkirchen.
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  • Am frühen morgen des Meskel-Sonntags strömen die Pilger zu den elf Felsenkirchen, um zu beten und sich segnen zu lassen.
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  • Gelegentlich werden während den Segnungen Exorzismen durchgeführt.
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  • Die Pilger erhoffen sich von der Segnung Heilung an Körper und Geist.
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  • Die Segnungen dauern in der Regel 2-3 Sekunden, während denen der Priester die Pilger mit dem Kreuz berührt.
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  • Der Priester hat alle Hände voll zu tun. Hunderte von Pilgern kommen am Morgen des Meskel-Sonntags in die Medhane Alem Felsenkirche, um gesegnet zu werden.
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  • Ein Mann mit schon fast biblisch anmutenden Gesichtszügen ragt aus der Menge der äthiopischen Pilger heraus.
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  • Am Eingang der Felsenkirche Medhane Alem verharren einige Pilger in stillem Gebet.
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  • Ein Pilger betet vor der imposanten Felswand, aus welcher die Medhane Alem Kirche herausgeschlagen wurde.
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  • Viele Pilger beten auch draussen an den Mauern der Kirchen, welche 1200 n. Chr. auf Geheiss von König Lalibela von Hand aus dem Fels gemeisselt wurden.
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  • Ein Mädchen weicht panisch vor dem Kreuz zurück – sie glaubt, vom Teufel besessen zu sein.
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  • Zwei Mädchen beim Gebet in der Medhane Alem Kirche, der grössten der 11 Felsenkirchen in Lalibela.
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  • Die Pilger glauben, dass die Segnung mit dem Lalibela Kreuz körperliche Gebrechen heilt.
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  • Meist reibt der Priester das Lalibela-Kreuz über Brust und Rücken der Pilger.
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  • Ein Priester wird durch einen höheren Geistlichen mit einem Prozessionskreuz gesegnet.
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  • November 8, 2017 – Followers of Serigne Cheikh Seye Baye prepare rice in large pots in order to nurish all the pilgrims and guests at the house of their spiritual leader in Touba during the Grand Magal. Cheikh Seye is  is a marabout of the Baye Fall Brotherhood, a clergyman and scholar and the spiritual leader of a Dahira, as smaller religious communities within the Senegalese Sufi brotherhoods are called.
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