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Winter Joy

Where there’s a slope, there’s a way! 🛷❄️ These kids prove that any incline is a playground. Watching them embrace the thrill of the downhillis pure winter magic. 🏔️✨ #WinterJoy #SleddingLife"

Minus outside

On the city streets, you will sometimes find people selling homegrown vegetables, fruit, milk, or preserves. Most often, these are elderly women who do this to survive because their pensions are insufficient. You can find these pensioners near supermarkets, markets, or other crowded areas; each of them has her own unique story and fate. Try to spend half of day outside with minus air temperature and you can understand everything.

Winter. Outside -17C

Winter. Outside it is -17C. There was no electricity all night so accordingly no heating, too. In the morning, electricity was connected for two hours. In the second part of the day according to the schedule electricity has been connected for four hours.

The baptism of Jesus

The baptism of Jesus, the ritual purification of Jesus with water by John the Baptist, was a major event described in the three synoptic Gospels of the New Testament (Matthew, Mark, and Luke).[a] It is considered to have taken place at Al-Maghtas (also called Bethany Beyond the Jordan), today located in Jordan. Modern biblical scholars view the baptism of Jesus as a historical event to which a high degree of certainty can be assigned. Along with the crucifixion of Jesus, biblical scholars view it as one of the two historically certain facts about him, and often use it as the starting point for the study of the historical Jesus. The baptism is one of the events in the narrative of the life of Jesus in the canonical Gospels; others include the Transfiguration, Crucifixion, Resurrection, and Ascension. Most Christian denominations view the baptism of Jesus as an important event and a basis for the Christian rite of baptism. In Eastern Christianity, Jesus's baptism is commemorated on 6 January (the Julian calendar date of which corresponds to 19 January on the Gregorian calendar), the feast of Epiphany, also referred in some Churches as the Feast of Theophany. In the Roman Catholic Church, the Anglican Communion, the Lutheran Churches and some other Western denominations, it is recalled on a day within the following week, the feast of the baptism of the Lord. In Roman Catholicism, the baptism of Jesus is one of the Luminous Mysteries sometimes added to the Rosary. It is a Trinitarian feast in the Eastern Orthodox Churches.

Some pictures from Lviv

Church of Saints Olga and Elizabeth

Church of Saints Olga and Elizabeth in Lviv. This is a neo-Gothic church located near the city's main railway station. The church was built between 1904 and 1911 according to the design of architect Teodor Talowski.

Teodor Talowski (1857-1910). His works include apartment buildings, churches, chapels and public buildings in Kraków, Lviv and other cities throughout former Austrian Galicia. The building has high towers and pointed spires, making it one of the most prominent architectural monuments of Lviv. The church was consecrated on October 22, 1911 as the Church of Saint Elizabeth, in honor of Elisabeth Amalie Eugenie (24 December 1837 – 10 September 1898), nicknamed Sisi or Sissi, was Empress of Austria and Queen of Hungary from her marriage to Franz Joseph I on 24 April 1854 until her assassination in 1898.

Coronation portrait as Queen of Hungary, 1867