1.   Spanish moss swayed from oak branches overhead.

2.   The slender tips of charred oak branches turn inward like talons, crisp skin peeling back from dead wood.

3.   Cars and houses were bedecked with Serb flags and the traditional symbol of dried oak branches.

4.   He burned oak branches, a traditional Christmas custom, before a midnight liturgy.

5.   He burned oak branches, a traditional Christmas custom, before going inside the cathedral for a midnight liturgy.

6.   Protesters streamed through downtown to St. Sava Cathedral, where Patriarch Pavle followed the Christmas custom of burning oak branches and offered holiday greetings.

7.   Pavle lit an oak branch which in the Orthodox tradition symbolizes the firewood taken by the shepherds to the Bethlehem stable to keep Jesus warm.

8.   Pavle lit an oak branch, which in the Orthodox tradition symbolizes the firewood taken by the shepherds to the Bethlehem stable to keep Jesus warm.