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Celebration of mass

Greek Orthodox Easter service, Pátmos, Greece

Hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church

Shintō blessing

Osiris, bronze figurine of the Late Period; in the Egyptian Museum, Berlin

Priest worshiping the Ādi Granth

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