January 6 is Epiphany Day

The Kaszucki family from Uhniv (now in the Ukraine) may have followed some of these holiday traditions: On Epiphany Day a "blessing of water" would occur on the lake There would be a large cross of ice decorated with pine branches. The church choir would sing Christmas carols. The priest went to every house to bless it with holy water. The houses would have decorations in the window of a cross made of straw. Poland also celebrates Epiphany/The Three Wise Kings where it is a public holiday. One tradition is to write “K + M + B” (or” C + M + B”) over the door to the house in chalk. These letters are the initials of the three wise kings. Their names were Caspar/Kaspar, Melchior, and Balthazar. This also represents the blessing “May Christ bless this house.” Picture credit: By RIA Novosti archive, image #51463 / Yuriy Kaver / CC-BY-SA 3.0, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=18132407