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Mandy Te05:00, May 01 2021
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Stella Bares with her grandson, Harry, at a service during Holy Week at Wellington’s Cathedral of the Annunciation of the Virgin Mary.
When Stella Bares parents and her Yaya came to New Zealand in the 1950s, they held on tight to their Greek traditions. Decades later, Bares is celebrating those traditions with her grandson. While many people celebrated Easter at the start of April, for the country’s Orthodox Greek communities, Easter is on May 2. Known as Greek Easter, the day and the holy week leading up to it is considered one of the most sacred events in the Greek Orthodox faith.