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1 August 2007
User:Fatman2021
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Position of the fingers while making the sign of the cross.
Sign of the Cross
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File:Lestovka.jpg
Lestovka
File:Raskolnikchurch.jpg
Old Believer Church in Ulan Ude, Buryatia, Russia
File:Pantokrator of Sinai.jpg
6th century icon, depicting Christ giving a blessing. Two fingers appear straightened, three folded. The Old Believers regard this as the proper way of making the sign of the Cross.
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Russian Old Believers in Woodburn, Oregon. Photo by Mikhail Evstafiev.
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Old Believer church outside of Gervais, Oregon.
File:Boyarynja Morozova.jpg
Detail of the painting Boyarynya Morozova by Vasily Surikov depicting a defiant Old Believer arrested by Tsarist authorities in 1671. She holds two fingers raised: a hint of the old (i.e. "proper") way of cross-signing oneself: with two fingers, rather th
Old Believers
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