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What Saturday before Easter tradition, brought by Polish immigrants, involves bringing baskets of food to church to be blessed, containing symbolic items like butter shaped as a lamb?

Swieconka, the blessing of Easter baskets on Holy Saturday, is a beloved Polish tradition strongly maintained in cities like Chicago, Buffalo, and Hamtramck, where the baskets are elaborately decorated.

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