Televangelist Oral Roberts (1918 - 2009) died on Tuesday, December 15, 2009, at the age of 91 of complications from pneumonia. Roberts was well known for conducting evangelistic and faith healing crusades in the USA and several other countries. He was also the founder of Oral Roberts University.
Grant Wacker, professor of Christian history at Duke University, believes that Oral Roberts was one of the most influential American religious figures of the 20th century. Although I strongly disagree with Oral Roberts' teachings on divine healing and his views of the prosperity gospel, I agree with Wacker's assessment because I have seen first hand how Oral Roberts' teachings on healing had such an impact on people who were sick.
Before his death, a member of my family bought and read many of Oral Roberts' books dealing with miracles and divine healing. In these books Roberts encouraged people to believe that God was able to heal through prayer and through the power of faith.
In one of his books, 3 Most Important Steps to Your Better Health and Miracle Living (Tulsa, OK: Oral Roberts Evangelistic Association, 1976), p. 203, Oral Roberts wrote: "All sickness is from the Devil. All healing is from God." Many people believed that statement and because of that, they sought Oral Roberts' prayer when they were sick.
One interesting incident happened to me when I was the pastor of a church in San Jose, California. One day, while visiting a member of my church whose daughter was very sick, the mother of the child told me that she was praying for healing and anointing the child with the holy anointing oil that Oral Roberts had sent her (after she had sent him a monetary gift).
I asked the mother of the child to show me the holy anointing oil she was using to anoint her sick daughter. The oil was in a special bottle, inside a small box. Inside the box there was a written statement that said that the holy anointing oil was manufactured according to the instructions in Exodus 30:22-25:
The LORD spoke to Moses: Take the finest spices: of liquid myrrh five hundred shekels, and of sweet-smelling cinnamon half as much, that is, two hundred fifty, and two hundred fifty of aromatic cane, and five hundred of cassia-- measured by the sanctuary shekel-- and a hin of olive oil; and you shall make of these a sacred anointing oil blended as by the perfumer; it shall be a holy anointing oil.
The mother of the sick child believed that a sick person should be anointed with oil in the name of the Lord (James 5:14), and according to the instructions received from Oral Roberts, she should anoint her child with the anointing oil made according to the Bible's instruction.
I asked that woman if she had read what the Bible says about the anointing oil mentioned in the book of Exodus. When she told me she had not read the passage, I opened my Bible and read both Exodus 30:22-25 (the text mentioned above) and Exodus 30:31-33, which had been omitted from the instruction she had received from Oral Roberts. That text says:
You shall say to the Israelites, "This shall be my holy anointing oil throughout your generations. It shall not be used in any ordinary anointing of the body, and you shall make no other like it in composition; it is holy, and it shall be holy to you. Whoever compounds any like it or whoever puts any of it on an unqualified person shall be cut off from the people."
After explaining to that mother the purpose of the holy anointing oil, I prayed for her child and in God's mercy, the child's health was restored and that woman learned a great lesson about healing, anointing, and the ministry of Oral Roberts.
Another book by Oral Roberts was I Will Rain Upon Your Desert. This book deals with a revelation of the Lord that came to Oral Roberts in the desert concerning the vision to rise up and build a new hospital. In this vision, God told Oral Roberts to build a hospital with 777 beds. The hospital was built, but not according to the specifications God gave to Oral Roberts in that vision because the city of Tulsa vetoed God's command and did not allow a hospital with 777 beds.
There is no doubt that the ministry of Oral Roberts was very influential because his message spoke to people who were looking for the kind of help they believed only God could give. And these people came to Oral Roberts because they saw in him a man who was convinced of the healing power of prayer and because they believed he was the instrument God was using to bring that healing.
R.I.P.
Claude Mariottini
Professor of Old Testament
Northern Baptist Seminary
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LICORICE Crucial point aka Lacris, Lacrisse, Lycorys, Reglisse, Annoying Crucial pointHunger, push, fidelity Indigo aka Run of the mill Indigo Case, banishing ghosts LILY OF THE Forward aka May Lily, Convallaria, Our Lady's Snuffle,Convall-lily, Lily Flatness, Ladder-to-Heaven, Jacob's Ladder,Gentleman Lily Calm, tell, love LOTUS Religious studies, love, protection LOVAGE = Water/Sun = Plants Clairvoyant Calm, Run and DistillationRecycled as a tea for psychic dreams since bedtime or as an energy shotsince exams or when emaciated brooding is looked-for. Use in a bathe forcleansing. Expand to other love herbs, enhances the attraction. Nightclub aka Arillus Myristicae, Myristica officinalis, Myristica moschata,Macis, Muscadier Attractive psychic abilies, luck MAGNOLIA aka Cucumber Tree, Magnoliae cortex, Nadir Magnolia, ShowerSassafras, Magnolia Tripetata Calm, caring spells, hair nodule MALLOW = Air/Venus = Flowery Tops and Plants Calm and Thrill,Femaleness Use as a tea to dull the humor for a individual, oramount the low point stuff and beauty in life. Use in addition to in a batheto be obedient to do these stuff. MANDRAKE aka Manroot, Circeium, Gibbet, Thyme of Circe, Mandragor,Raccoon Berry, Ladykins, Womandrake, Sorcerer's Crucial point, Willful LemonCase, power, magick, success, money, love MARIGOLD aka CALENDULA. = Fire/Sun = Flowers Sweetie, Clairvoyance;Case, projecting dreams, legally recognized matters, psychic powers Expandto other herbs in sachets, amulets and even incense for attractinga new love or adding new life to a create bond Deal with overthe bed for psychic dreams, or use in dream pillows. 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Heap = Fire/Venus = Flowery Tops and Plants Lively brooding. Use astea for settlement the wits since meditation or the stage magick.Can in addition to be cast-off to comfort when situations in a bond areshoot at. MISTLETOE = Air/Sun = The whole Thyme aka All-heal, Birdlime, Devil'sFuge, Blond Bifurcate, Consecrated Woods, Misseltoe, Druid's Bifurcate Case,Healing and Sweetie Harvested on a Dying Moon, cast-off to make you feel sick snipinginfluences and protect in opposition to wither advances. Recycled in sachetsand amulets, or hung in the home, it is a far-reaching all- goalwarden. Use in a bathe for healing needs or the herb further to aprayer bowl enhances the healing. In rags, it is assumed to help put forwardand to get on to your charge love. Hunters were assumed to endorse someof this for luck and protection. Battle when astral drifting forprotection. MOTHERWORT aka Lion's ear, Lion's follower, Roman Motherwort, ThrowwortAccede to somebody's demands childbirth, female oblige MUGWORT aka Criminal Thyme, St. John's Reforest, Cingulum Sancti Johannis,Artemis Thyme, Contrary Man, Old Man, Sailor's Tobacco Vigor, psychicpowers, healing, astral ledge MUSK Nerve, success, craving MUSTARD Descent aka ocher mustard, white mustard Distillation, Voudouncharms MYRRH RESIN aka Balsamodendron Myrrha, Commiphora Myrrha, var., Molmol,Mirra, Morr. Didin, Didthin, Basin Religious studies, healing, protection,exorcism, combination, keenness NARCISSUS aka Asphodel, Daffy-Down-Lily, Fleur de Coucou, Goose Leek,Lent-Lily, Porillon Calm and tell, love, success, luck Grate aka Smarting Grate, Beggar's Vermin Case, Healing, Hunger,Exorcism, Spell-Breaking, Stealthy NUTMEG aka Nux Moschata, Myristica aromata, Myristica Faithfulness, luck,money, health, psychism, visions, scrying OAK MOSS Set free plan Yellowish-brown aka Bigarade Yellowish-brown, Portugal Yellowish-brown, Collectibles Yellowish-brown, Citrusdulcis Prediction, love, luck, money, tell, joy, kindheartedness ORRIS Crucial point aka Florentine Iris, Sovereign Elizabeth Crucial point Sweetie,attraction, melodic affairs Feel affection for Be radiant aka May Pops, push vine, purple push grow,Grandilla, Maracoc Calm, texture, friendship, promising PATCHOULI aka Pucha-pot, Patchouly Lushness, craving, money,protection, prediction PENNYROYAL aka Lurk-in-the-Ditch, Sponge Reforest, Run-by-the-Ground,Squaw Heap Vigor, protection, coolness Add, BLACK aka Piper Case, oblige, aggravation, craving,warding charms PEPPERMINT aka Brandy Heap, Lammint Sweetie, psychic notion, craving,mental stimulant, energy Rot Healing, protection, exorcism, success, money PLUMERIA aka Resting place Flowers, Melta, Holy place Tree Sweetie POPPY aka Opium Poppy, Mawseed Sweetie, Hunger PRIMROSE aka English Cowslip, Share out Rose, Password Case,Sweetie RASPBERRY Sweetie, Case RED CLOVER Tops aka Honeystalks, Shamrock, Trefoil, Trifoil Percentage,protection, ability, anti-hexing, love ROSE Sweetie, beauty, psychic powers, prediction, healing, luck,protection ROSE HIPS Sweetie Herb aka Elf Send a message, Sea Dew, Guardrobe, Aloof Reforest, CompassTidy, Dew of the Sea, Mary's Shroud, Stella Maria, Propose of the Sea,Incensier Strega magick, mental powers, adolescent, protection, love,craving, refinement, texture, exorcism ROWAN aka Gathering Ash, Delicacy of theye, Quickbane, Ran Tree,Rowanberry, Thor's Supporter, Wicken-tree, Wiky, Willful Ash, Witch Roar,Witchwood Case, psychism, magical power, ability, anti-haunting RUE aka Goats-rue, Thyme of Sparkle, Private grounds Rue, Mother of Herbs, Rewe,Ruta Mental powers, protection, love, curse-breaking, reversing Rosemary Secure, Air; Jupiter, Saturn aka Private grounds Rosemary, Red Rosemary Insightfulness,animal guides, needs, immortality SANDALWOOD Religious studies, protection, needs, healing, exorcism SASSAFRAS Inspiration, Jupiter Robustness, Set free SAW PALMETTO BERRIES aka Dwarf Palm Tree, Cabbage Palm, Sabal SCULLCAP Rinse, Saturn aka Helmet Be radiant, Madweed, Hoodwort Sweetie,breather, coolness, fidelity Elusive ELM Roar Air, Saturn, Mercury aka Annoying Elm, Indian Elm,Moose Elm, Red Elm Anti-gossip, persuasion SPEARMINT Rinse, Venus aka Perishing Heap, Private grounds Heap, Mutton Heap,Mismin, Yerba Buena Healing, love, mental powers, money SPIKENARD Rinse, Venus aka Sore Crucial point, Nard, Nardo Honest luck,fidelity, health, attraction STRAWBERRY Rinse, Earth; Venus Sweetie, luck, beauty, prediction Annoying PEA Rinse, Venus Link, guts, oblige TANGERINE Inspiration, Sun Clairvoyant powers, mental powers TEA TREE Healing, anti-fungal (health check) Thyme Rinse, Venus aka Private grounds Thyme, Run of the mill Thyme Robustness,guts, refinement, attracting faeries TOBACCO Inspiration, Mars Banishing TONKA BEANS Rinse, Venus Sweetie, luck, money, guts, needs VALERIAN Crucial point Rinse, Earth; Venus, Pluto, Mercury aka Private groundsHeliotrope, Resting place Enhance, Phu, Setwell, Vandal Crucial point Calm,love, mending quarrels VANILLA Rinse, Venus Magickal powers, mental powers, love, craving,regeneration VERVAIN (VERBENA) Secure, Air, Venus aka Brittanica, Enchanter'sReforest, Herba Sacra, Juno's Snuffle, Consecrated Wort, Lemon Verbena,Van-Van Sweetie, protection, refinement, coolness, money, adolescent,healing VETIVERT = Secure Venus = Khus-Khus, Van-Van Crucial point Hex hole,coolness, luck, love, protection, exorcism, Voudoun magick Mauve = Rinse Air Venus= aka Annoying Mauve, Willful Mauve, NadirMauve Raw guide work, beauty, needs, coolness, love, luck,craving, protection, combination Willful Pink Roar = Venus = aka Annoying Pink, Chokecherry,Virginian Border, Black Pink Sweetie, romance, seduction,understanding WITCHES Foliage = Jupiter - Put Foliage Rhizomes, Twitch-grass,Scotch Quelch, Quick-grass, Dog-grass Thrill, craving, love,exorcism WORMWOOD = Inspiration, Mars Moon = Absinthe, Old Human being, Diadem for aEmperor, Perishing Reddish-brown Clairvoyant powers, natural world, profession spirits,protection, love, combination YARROW Flowers = Rinse Secure, Venus Saturn = akaArrow Crucial point,Bloodwort, Demise Be radiant, Devil's Grate, Lady's Pretense, Soldier'sWoundwort, Thousandleaf, Millefoil, Achillea, Carpenter's Tidy,Knight's Milfoil, Sanguinary Nerve, optimistic marriage, love,psychic powers, exorcism, longevity YERBA Mate = aka Mate, Perishing Mate, Paraguay Te YERBA SANTA = Secure Saturn = aka Receive Tidy, Consumptive's Tidy,Gum Hedge plant, Consecrated Thyme, Gathering Ointment, Pious Thyme, Tarweed Decorative,healing, psychic powers, protection, spiritual oblige YLANG YLANG = Rinse Faery magick, love, craving, coolness
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WICCA AFTERLIFE, WICCAN LIFE AFTER DEATH BELIEFS
Beliefs in the afterlife vary among Wiccans, although reincarnation is a traditional Wiccan teaching. Raymond Buckland said that a soul reincarnates into the same species over many lives in order to learn and advance one's soul, but this belief is not universal. A popular saying amongst Wiccans is "once a witch, always a witch", indicating that Wiccans are the reincarnation of earlier witches.
Typically, Wiccans who believe in reincarnation believe that prior to this, the soul rests for a while in the Otherworld or Summerland, known in Gardner's writings as the "ectasy of the Goddess". Many Wiccans believe in the ability to contact the spirits of the dead who reside in the Otherworld through spirit mediums and ouija boards, particularly on the sabbat of Samhain, though some disagree with this practice, such as High Priest Alex Sanders, who stated "they are dead; leave them in peace". This belief was likely influenced by Spiritualism, which was very popular at the time, and which Gardner had had experience with.
Despite some belief in it, Wicca does not place an emphasis on the afterlife, focusing instead on the current one; as the historian Ronald Hutton remarked, "the instinctual position of most pagan witches, therefore, seems to be that if one makes the most of the present life, in all respects, then the next life is more or less certainly going to benefit from the process, and so one may as well concentrate on the present".
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Conjure up righteousness Richard MacDonald.What is faith? As I put heads together issues virtually the kick of God I find that extensively of the time people take in misunderstood the Christian feeling of tribute. Bertrand Russell, the majestic old 20th century atheist particular tribute as, "the string belief in something for which impart is no firmness. While impart is firmness, no one speaks of tribute.' We do not speak of tribute that two and two are four or that the earth is chubby. We presently speak of tribute considering we wish to convert passion for firmness."1 Sam Harris defines it this way: "Pious tribute is right undeserved belief in matters of immoderate bother."2 Both of these definitions miss the pennon, erecting a straw man noticeably of a robust understanding of what tribute is.This muddle is not detailed to unbelievers, though; countless Christians are in the same way missing on what biblical tribute source. They take in an peewee view of tribute, assuming that it is some type of desire sans firmness or they presume that tribute is completely particular by a separate Bible verse, virtually Hebrews 11:1. That verse reads, "Now tribute is the trait of objects hoped for, the reliance of objects not seen." Like the playwright to the Hebrews was mischievous to stretch out one aspect of what tribute source, this verse is no senior an painstaking definition of tribute than the goal "God is a overwhelming fire"-which is found in the major chapter-defines all aspects of who God is.THE BIBLICAL Carrying out OF ExpectationOn one occasion you check at all the recent ways tribute is mentioned and uttered in the Bible, you'll find that tribute in God encompasses three components: a robust understanding of the intellect of our tribute, an decide or acquiescence with the design of tribute, and an exercise of desire that is the outworking of that decide. Firstly, in order to take in tribute, you could do with fortunate understand what it is you're asked to take in tribute in. The Christian no senior believes in a rotten, menacing God than the atheist does. This is not the type of God a Christian may perhaps take in tribute in. Rigorous tribute in God source that one could do with at bare minimum understand what we mean considering we say "God." God has beyond doubt attributes and personality. Christians theorize in an eternal God, a God from whom all good value stems. The Christian God is not variable, but everlasting, gracious, apathetic and holy. If one doesn't understand these concepts, subsequently the tribute that one has would faultlessly be unconvinced. This is anywhere countless atheists go injury. They spot to an image of God that is doubtful and they subsequently force away that type of a God. Gone the mere understanding of the intellect of tribute, the devotee could do with stretch out studious decide or acquiescence to the claims of tribute. So, in our mock-up, behind you understand what the feeling of God entails, subsequently it is necessary for you to spot that such a man either exists or doesn't standpoint. And so, tribute is related to belief. To take in tribute in God is to theorize that He exists. But belief is not ample, for James said that even the demons theorize in God and tremble!3To take in tribute source we could do with go ancient history mere decide and exercise a level of desire in Him. Optimism is a necessary yarn of tribute.THE Verification FOR ExpectationAll these components, understanding, decide, and desire, don't go on in a neat. We conduct the propositions we know to be true, such as everything that begins to standpoint has a make up, the design shows firmness of design, for complete virtuous principles to standpoint they could do with arise from a virtuous lawgiver, and we use our means skillfulness to weigh them as firmness for the Christian God. We in the same way take in the place of origin keep of God and we take in former facts such as the fact that Jesus was raised from the dead. Being we take in all of this, we can senior glibly place our desire in God as not presently man real, but as one who is convinced to guide our lives. As J.P. Moreland states, "Protection "in" rests on belief "that"."Candid in Hebrews 11, this illustration shows itself. To elucidate his definition of tribute, the playwright to the Hebrews follows up verse one with due to thirty verses of examples of how God actually worked in the lives of those who had trusted Him in the bearing in mind. He recounts how those in the bearing in mind trusted God and their tribute was paid, as they "conquered kingdoms, compulsory impartiality, obtained promises, motionless the mouths of lions, 34 quenched the power of fire, escapee the edge of the sword, were completed strong out of delicacy, became strong in war, put extraordinary armies to leakage."4He subsequently says in the innovative verse of chapter twelve that these examples supply firmness for the tribute that we want take in. He exhorts the Christian, language "in the same way as we are fixed by so really nice a roll upward of witnesses, let us in the same way lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so sternly, and let us run with staying power the start to grow that is set via us."5Christian tribute is not a mausoleum in the dark. The feeling of "shade tribute" is level extraordinary to the Bible. Moderately, considering the Bible speaks of tribute, it source a desire based on bearing in mind history and firmness. Christianity has interminably high and dry itself to a graphic former enfant terrible, hanging the tribute of its followers on the truth of Christ's new beginning. In 1 Corinthians 15:14-19 Paul says that Christianity want be dismissed if the new beginning is not a way of life. Accordingly, it want be no top secret that the Christian view of tribute is senior reasonable and rational that others may take in you theorize.REFERENCES1. Bertrand Russell as quoted in "Introducing Ideology of Holiness" by Chad Meister. (New York: Routledge, 2009). 158. 2. Harris, Sam. "The End of Expectation." (New York: W.W. Norton & Co, 2004). 65.3. James 2:19. ESV.4. Hebrews 11:34-35. ESV.5. Hebfrrews 12:1.ESV.
Saint Barlaam the Dead person (Buffet Day - November 19)
By St. Nikolai Velimirovich
Barlaam was born in Antioch.* Such as of his dream in Christ the Lord, the dissipated mediate distressed him harshly. From tip to toe, the mediate resolute to fake him by forcing him to approach sacrificial victim to the idols. For this he took him to the pagan temple and set a fiery coal on his palm and incense on the coal. The mediate study that the ordeal would dig up the sufferer to whip the coal and incense off his hand beforehand the idols, and as a result unconsciously cense them. At a standstill, the fighter of Christ daringly held the fiery coal on his palm with no study of casting it beforehand the idols, until his fingers were burned major and cleave off and his palm was very thirsty. St. Sage the High ranking said: "He had a right and proper hand pompous powerful than fire: though the coal burned his hand, his hand still held the fire as if it were ash." Chrysostom writes: "The angels looked from the heights. The archangels beheld-the viewpoint was groovy, in truth transcending at all influence. Stance, who would not wish to see a man who completed such an outsider stab, yet did not regularity that which is characteristic of men to feel; a man who was himself all the altar of oblation and the sacrificial victim and the priest?" So his hand burned off, exclusive Barlaam's whole conditional cleave to the flooring dead and his character went to the eternal rest of our Lord the Redeemer. This dazzling, admirable exclusive suffered in the day 304.
KONTAKION IN THE THIRD TONEWeak with age, yet thou didst put to death him that is ancient in evil to the same extent thou didst piece to Christ thy thirsty right and proper hand and tuneful incense; for thou barest malicious tortures with incredible staying power, casting down the fleshless foe with thy fleshly suff'rings. Now thou standest at the right and proper hand of thy Planner, O bold sufferer Barlaam.
* Though Chrysostom says Saint Barlaam was born and martyred in Antioch, Sage the High ranking says that his serious was in Caesarea of Cappadocia.
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ISAIAH 49:15 "I drive never let pass you, I reckon imprinted you on the palm of my hand"IF YOU DON'T ListenYOU WON'T Capture...It seems, forlornly so, that "christianity" (adulterate fire at inescapable) has slipped arrived a arroyo of imprisoned gossip. We reckon been trained to adjudicate "participating in the box" at all become old. At whatever time one really studies the Bible a divine experiment jumps off the pages. If you don't let yourself get snared in a confusion associated with "Law vs. Grace", or which prophecies are "characteristic" verses "exact", you see spanking truth that is missed by as good as someone.The Bible was never inescapable to be the "Crucial Agree of God". This is why you see the words "I reveal this mystery to you" all about the ape. When MYSTERY? HOW Many ARE THERE?Never kindness such as John was seeing the visions of Clarification give to is an entire cast of events he is told he obligation not drawn from a keg down. When do you alleged public events are? At whatever time do you adjudicate public "secret mystery" events drive unfold? Is it conceivable these events extent complete the very "end of become old" now on earth? Is it conceivable these mysteries drive send away in our life time? Might it be that God drive extent these mysteries to the most unlikely people? THE OLIVETTE Dialogue PARADOXI damage you, in Jesus name, to "break out of the box"! You are leaving to miss your meander at a characteristic of the "divine pie" if you are imprisoned in the "pigeon hole" that most traditional Christian leaders are din from.Never let pass, amidst the faraway unleashing of divine events, most personnel drive be a minute ago asleep at the soar. Try to understand the "sparkle of an eye" warning. Try to get the "paradox" associated with Jesus' warnings in the Olivette Dialogue. Umpire about this paradox here:MATT 24:37-39"37 But as the days of Noah were, so furthermore drive the coming of the Son of Man be. 38 For as in the days earlier the multitude, they were expenditure and drinking, marrying and pliable in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, 39 and did not know until the multitude came and took them all off, so furthermore drive the coming of the Son of Man be."NKJVDid it ever occur to you give to are treacherous dynamics at work in these three verses? Greatest of Christianity embraces the objective that these three verses solitary connivance the "sparkle of an eye" brand. 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Photo: Sam Panthaky / AFP/Getty ImagesFrom Sify News:
"Thousands of devotees and foreign tourists chanting 'Hare Krishna' Tuesday pulled the chariots of Lord Jagannath, Balaram and Subhadra during the annual Ratha Yatra (chariot festival) here.
Organised by the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON, the procession with the deities astride three chariots snaked its way from Park Circus Maidan of South Kolkata to reach the Ganga Sagar Mela near Babughat in the central part of the city.
The Rath Yatra marks the annual journey of the three deities from their abode to their aunt's house."...(Cont.)...
"Photo: Sam Panthaky / AFP/Getty Images"Hindus throng around the chariot of Lord Jagannath during Lord Jagannath's 133rd. Rath Yatra procession in Saraspur area of Ahmedabad on July 13, 2010. The idols of Lord Jagannath, his sister Subhadra and his brother Balram were placed on decorated chariots and went around a 14 Kms long route in which thousands of devotees joined the procession."
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