Photo Gallery: Blessing of the Grapes ceremony in Glendale

Archbishop Moushegh Mardirossian, Prelate of the Armenian Apostolic Church of the Western United States, center, performs the annual Armenian harvest-time celebration blessing of the grapes at Glendale Adventist Medical Center in Glendale on Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2014. Rev. Ardak Demirjian, left, and Rev. Vazken Atmajian, right help with the celebration. Baskets with about 300 bags of grapes were blessed.

Archbishop Moushegh Mardirossian, Prelate of the Armenian Apostolic Church of the Western United States, center, performs the annual Armenian harvest-time celebration blessing of the grapes at Glendale Adventist Medical Center in Glendale on Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2014. Rev. Ardak Demirjian, left, and Rev. Vazken Atmajian, right help with the celebration. Baskets with about 300 bags of grapes were blessed.   (Raul Roa / Staff Photographer)

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Roughly 40 visitors and Glendale Adventist hospital staff joined Bedrossian for the annual Blessing of the Grapes ceremony on Wednesday, August 13, 2014. The ceremony included hymns and prayers recited in Armenian, coinciding with St. Mary’s Armenian Apostolic Church’s celebrations later this week.

Photo Gallery: Blessing of the grapes in Glendale

A cross sits next to grapes during the annual Armenian harvest-time celebration blessing of the grapes at Glendale Adventist Medical Center in Glendale on Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2014. Baskets with about 300 bags of grapes were blessed by Archbishop Moushegh Mardirossian, Prelate of the Armenian Apostolic Church of the Western United States.   (Raul Roa / Staff Photographer)

Photo Gallery: Blessing of the grapes in Glendale

Archbishop Moushegh Mardirossian, Prelate of the Armenian Apostolic Church of the Western United States, center, performs the annual Armenian harvest-time celebration blessing of the grapes at Glendale Adventist Medical Center in Glendale on Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2014. Baskets with about 300 bags of grapes were blessed.   (Raul Roa / Staff Photographer)

Photo Gallery: Blessing of the grapes in Glendale

Attendees received a bag of blessed grapes after the annual Armenian harvest-time celebration blessing of the grapes at Glendale Adventist Medical Center in Glendale on Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2014. Baskets with about 300 bags of grapes were blessed by Archbishop Moushegh Mardirossian, Prelate of the Armenian Apostolic Church of the Western United States.   (Raul Roa / Staff Photographer)

Photo Gallery: Blessing of the grapes in Glendale

Business data analyst Amanda Newton plays religious music just prior to the annual Armenian harvest-time celebration blessing of the grapes at Glendale Adventist Medical Center in Glendale on Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2014. Baskets with about 300 bags of grapes were blessed by Archbishop Moushegh Mardirossian, Prelate of the Armenian Apostolic Church of the Western United States.   (Raul Roa / Staff Photographer)