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Just before the late weekend, the Varėna district was hit by a sudden increase in coronavirus infections and healthy ducks on the Ministry of Health map entered the red quarantine zone: 20 Varėna residents were sick.
“The long weekend is coming. Be careful and avoid going to cities with high morbidity rates,” the mayor of Varėna district municipality Algis Kašėta warned residents of the district on Friday, but did not mention the restriction of visit the cemetery.
The invitation to choose a common prayer by the campfire was not withdrawn by the community of Margioniai village.
During the year since last year, there were no accumulated Late Crosses, so the scrap was lit with firewood, an impressive size of which was previously stacked in the cemetery, it will have to be enough for 8 days. The people gathered in the cemetery covered their faces with medical masks, and when most of them did not even take off singing.
“We live here in private, we have little contact with each other, we are not afraid of catching it, but many guests gathered today, it is better to protect ourselves,” said Dzūkė, of honorable age.
After keeping silence or praying at the nearby graves, the visitors to the cemetery rushed to the campfire, and after heating for a long time, many people joined in and sang.
The Dzūkai call this tradition of the last octave “zadušnas”, preserved during all the wars and forced atheism of the Soviet era. The elders of the once great town, which now has a population of just over fifty, say the time is not far off when there will be no one in Margionys to remember who is buried in which chapel, or perhaps to burn a bonfire.
Two enlightened characters from this town are buried in the Margioniai cemetery: the chronicler Vaclovas Balevičius and the poet, director of the Theater of Laying Juozas Gaidys. Performances, ethnographic ensemble concerts and parties are held at the Laying Theater and today.
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