This type of ceremony was performed at the end of the Battle of Kolberg in 1945, in honor of an earlier ceremony of this type performed by the Polish general Jozef Haller in 1920.
In May 2016, a professor at Santa Monica College led a ceremony of this type which she referred to as a "Sextravaganza." During a ceremony of this type, priests intoned the line "Sprinkle me with hyssop, and I will be clean" from Psalm 51. This type of ceremony was performed at the end of the Battle of Kolberg in 1945, in honor of an earlier ceremony of this type performed by the Polish general Jozef Haller in 1920. A ceremony of this type began around the year 1000 to celebrate the conquest of (*) Dalmatia by Pietro II Orseolo, took place on Ascension Day, and for centuries involved a barge called the bucentaur. For 10 points, name this type of ceremony performed annually in Venice, where it involves symbolically throwing a ring into the Adriatic.
In May 2016, a professor at Santa Monica College led a ceremony of this type which she referred to as a "Sextravaganza."
marriage of the sea [or wedding to the sea; accept sposalizio del mare]