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Celebrating Advent: 6 Unique Traditions Around the World

Processions, baking, hanging red lanterns—and roller skating to church—mark this Advent season.

Oaxaca Juarez Mexico. Cathedral
Credit: © William Perry 2019 Northwest Trade Photos, 4330 157th PL SE, Bellevue, WA 425-957-4593, nwtradephotos@yahoo.com

As Advent season quickly approaches, people all around the world are preparing to celebrate this time of reflection and anticipation. Traditionally, many churches mark the four Advent Sundays, or the four Sundays before Christmas, by lighting one candle each week leading up to Christmas and the birth of Jesus. Others celebrate in different ways. Various advent traditions range from lighting homes with paper lanterns in China to roller skating to Christmas mass in Venezuela.

Here are the many unique ways people will be celebrating the Advent season, beginning on November 27.

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