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The Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, the spiritual leader of the worldwide Orthodox Christian Church, steps over rubble as he surveys devastation at the site of the break in the inner harbor navigational canal Saturday, Jan. 7, 2006, in the Lower Ninth Ward district of New Orleans. Bartholomew laid flowers and prayed for the victims of Hurricane Katrina.

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Here, boys swim from small boats to reach the Epiphany cross tossed into Spring Bayou in Tarpon Springs, Fla. The tradition in Tarpon Springs, now in its 100th year, began as Greeks came to the area to find work in the sponge diving industry.