(6 Jan 2023)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Belgrade - 6 January 2023
1. People putting dried oak branches on top of wood prepared for a fire
2. Tracking shot of woman making sign of cross, then putting her oak tree branches on the firewood
3. Children putting oak branches on the pile
4. Various of people standing at venue, oak tree branches in their hands
5. People bringing in big tree branches to be put on the fire
6. SOUNDBITE (Serbian) Mila Vujovic, Belgrade resident:
"Even as a small child I used to celebrate Christmas, and I try to point out to my children and my grandchildren that this is the happiest of holidays and that we should honour it."
7. People carrying big oak tree branches
8. SOUNDBITE (Serbian) Zoran Dimovski, Belgrade resident:
"For me and for many Serbs, this (Christmas) means so much. This is a holiday that symbolises new birth. And today, we came to burn the Yule log.”
9. Serbian Orthodox priests performing a ceremony before the burning of the Yule log bonfire
10. Man lighting fire under the Yule log
11. Man puts large branch onto fire
12. Fire as it burns
13. People throwing small branches on the fire
14. Various of people gathered around the fire
15. Tilt up from fire to St Sava temple
STORYLINE:
Serbia's Orthodox Christian believers, whose church follows the Julian calendar, marked Christmas Eve on Friday by burning dried oak branches at sermons held outside churches and temples.
In the Serbian capital Belgrade, hundreds of worshippers gathered outside the St. Sava Temple - the biggest Orthodox church in the Balkans - to burn oak branches, as they symbolise the yule log.
The young oak tree symbolises Christ and his entry into the world, and the centuries-old tradition is led by church dignitaries.
As the yule log fire was lit, dozens of people of all ages moved in closer and threw small branches of dried oak into the large bonfire.
Orthodox believers will celebrate Christmas on Saturday, with morning sermons in churches.
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