YUGOSLAVIA: PATRIARCH PAVLE OF SERBIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH HOLDS TRADITIONAL ORTHODOX CHRISTMAS EVE LITURGY AT BELGRADE'S ST SAVAS CHURCH

Record ID: 647125

  • Title: YUGOSLAVIA: PATRIARCH PAVLE OF SERBIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH HOLDS TRADITIONAL ORTHODOX CHRISTMAS EVE LITURGY AT BELGRADE'S ST SAVAS CHURCH
  • Date: 6th January 2001
  • Summary: (W1)BELGRADE, YUGOSLAVIA (JANUARY 6 AND 7, 2002) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) (NIGHT SHOTS) 1. LV: PEOPLE ARRIVING AT ST SAVAS CHURCH 0.08 2. GV: PEOPLE GATHERING FOR THE MIDNIGHT MASS 0.15 3. SV: PEOPLE LIGHTING CANDLES IN FRONT OF THE CHURCH 0.23 4. CLOSE-UP OF LIT CANDLES 0.29 5. SLV: PEOPLE GATHERED INSIDE CHURCH 0.37 6. SCU: PEOPLE KISSING THE ICON 0.42 7. SV: MAN HOLDING LIT CANDLE, SAYING "God give health and long life to the Serbs." 0.49 8. MV/CU: PEOPLE SETTING YULE LOGS ON FIRE IN A TRADITIONAL SERB ORTHODOX RITE (2 SHOTS) 1.03 9. TILT: PEOPLE WATCHING FIREWORKS 1.18 10. PAN SHOT FROM THE TOP OF ST SAVAS CHURCH TO INTERIOR WITH PEOPLE ATTENDING THE MIDNIGHT MASS 1.27 11. VARIOUS OF PATRIARCH PAVLE OF THE SERBIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH HOLDING THE MIDNIGHT MASS / PEOPLE ATTENDING MASS (5 SHOTS) 2.07 12. SV: SERBIAN PRIME MINISTER ZORAN DJINDJIC AND SERBIAN CROWN PRINCE ALEXANDAR KARADJORDJEVIC ATTENDING THE MASS, ACCOMPANIED BY THEIR WIVES 2.15 13. CLOSE-UP OF DJINDJIC AND KARADJORDJEVIC 2.23 14. PAN SHOT OF PEOPLE IN THE CHURCH 2.34 15. LV: EXTERIOR OF ST SAVA CHURCH WITH LIT CANDLES IN FRONT OF IT 2.42 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 21st January 2001 12:00
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  • Location: BELGRADE, YUGOSLAVIA
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  • Country: Yugoslavia
  • Reuters ID: LVACJR62HJJCU6NCBNA4S5PYG8LB
  • Story Text: Liturgies were held throughout Yugoslavia on Sunday, as
    the Orthodox believers celebrated their Christmas Eve.


    Patriarch Pavle of the Serbian Orthodox Church held the
    traditional Orthodox Christmas Eve liturgy in St Savas Church
    in Belgrade.

    Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic attended liturgy,
    together with other Serbian officials and the Crown Prince of
    Serbia, Alexandar Karadjordjevic.

    The Serbian Orthodox Church, like the Russian one, marks
    Christmas Day on January 7, according to the Julian calendar
    used by the Orthodox church, nearly two weeks after the
    Western churches.

    Various churches and monasteries throughout Serbia and
    Montenegro conducted their own ceremonial celebrations of this
    most important Orthodox holiday.

    The Christmas holiday was all but ignored in communist
    times, replaced by secular New Year celebrations.

    Yugoslavs still decorate their homes with New Year trees
    and Grandfather Frost and Santa Claus bring presents for
    children on January 1.

    The Orthodox Christmas Eve is the final day of the eight
    week long fast. Unlike the Catholic Christmas, the Orthodox
    one is more modest, but - like the Catholic one - it
    represents the most important family gathering in the year.


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