Washington, Reverend Vondell Gassaway, pastor of the St. Martin's Spiritual Church standing in a bowl of sacred water banked with roses, each of which he blesses and gives to a member who has been annointed and prayed for by a long line of disciples during the annual "flower bowl demonstration".

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