Swimming for Holy Cross at Epiphany Held in Several Montenegrin Towns

By , 20 Jan 2019, 20:03 PM Lifestyle
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The largest swimming for Epiphany (Bogojavljenje) in Montenegro was held in Podgorica, at the mouth of Ribnica in Moraca.

More than 200 people participated in the swimming for the Holy Cross.

Goran Čađenović was the first one to arrive at the cross, while the fastest one among the females was Slađana Ćuković.

Just as ten years ago, when the Epiphany swimming was held for the first time in this century in Bar, and Tomo Pekic was the first to arrive at the Holy Cross.

During rainy weather in front of hundreds of citizens of Bar on the town's beach, more than 60 believers swam for the Holy Cross, among whom the youngest participant Pavle was only three years old. This year more children participated in the Epiphany swimming, even the girls, the youngest of which was seven-year-old Petra.

“This is the second time that I swim for the holy cross. I was swimming ten years ago when I also arrived first. For ten years I did not swim for the Epiphany. I wanted to mark the decade when I was only 18 years old when I arrived first to the holy cross. I was honored that for the second time in my life I arrived first and thus marked this jubilee, "said Pekić, who is the assistant coach at the Women's Volleyball Club “Galeb”.

Draško Jelovac from Tivat was the first to reach the holy cross in the traditional Epiphany swimming at Miholjska Prevlaka. In the swim, there was the largest number of participants so far - over seventy, including dozens of girls, and the event brought together a large number of believers from Tivat and Boka Bay. This year, before the swim, they entered the sea with the chief priests of the Miholjska church.

Marko Mićović (19) from Banjani is the winner of Epiphany swimming, which was organized for the first time by the Church municipality Nikšić on the river Zeta, near Manitovac, while in Bar Tomo Pekić (28), the assistant coach at ŽOK Luka Bar was the first to arrive to the holy cross. This is the second time for Tomo to be the fastest swimmer at the Epiphany.

Nikola Radonić from Baosici was the first to reach the epiphany cross at the Skver in Herceg Novi. This year's contest included 48 swimmers, including three women swimming in the sea whose temperature was 11 degrees.

Though it was a rainy day with showers the sky was clear at the time of the swim.

Text by CdM, on January 19th, 2019, read more at CdM

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