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92 church must be married men before they are ordained, but neither the priest nor his wife can marry a second time.

The marriage feasts are generally accompanied with music and singing and fire-works, and similar amusements. Once in a Protestant community, when they were taking the groom and the bride from the church back to the home, they sang on the way, "Jesus, I my cross have taken."