The First Time You Really Got to Kiss Anything in Church All Holy Week

In mediaeval england, this would be the first time that you actually got to kiss anything in church all holy week. And so we have an icon called the burial d that we carry around the building. We also lay two things to signify christ's being in the tomb. One is this icon, this burial shroud which is like christd la on pep on. Inchurc all week during holy week. The next day, in both the east and the west, what we basically do is we have a funeral for christ. But they wouldn't pass this during a holy week, because christ was betrayed with a kiss, right? Which is another kind of weird aspect

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