TARPON SPRINGS — When 16-year-old Colten Sakadales dove into the Spring Bayou with 54 other boys during the 115th annual Epiphany celebration on Wednesday, he said he opened his eyes underwater and saw the white cross appear to be glowing.
Fellow parishioners of St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Cathedral had joked earlier it was his turn to find the cross, and receive the year of blessings that tradition says go along with it, since his brother, Hunter Sakadales, 19, retrieved the cross last year.
So when he emerged from the 63-degree water clasping the cross thrown into the bayou by His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros, Primate of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America, the Tarpon High School junior was stunned.
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