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Bulgaria’s Patriarch Neophyte serves water blessing of the Bulgarian military flags

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At a solemn ceremony in front of the Monument to the Unknown Soldier in Sofia Bulgaria’s Patriarch Neophyte served a water blessing of the military flags, the flags and banners of the scared places of the Bulgarian Army. Bulgaria’s President and Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Bulgarian Army Rossen Plevneliev received the guards of honor of the Bulgarian Armed Forces. National Assembly President Tsetska Tsacheva, cabinet members, representatives of municipal councils, senior military staff, public figures and citizens attended the ceremony.




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