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“Unleavened wafers embossed with Christmas-related religious images, identical in composition to altar bread.”

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Christmas wafer (Polish: opłatek [ɔˈpwatɛk] , plural opłatki; Lithuanian: kalėdaitis [kɐlʲeːˈdɐjtʲɪs], plural kalėdaičiai; Slovak: oblátka, plural oblátky) is a Catholic Christmas tradition celebrated in Poland, Lithuania, Moravia, and Slovakia. The custom is traditionally observed during Kūčios in Lithuania and Wigilia in Poland on December 24. The unleavened wafers are baked from pure wheat flour and water, are usually rectangular in shape and very thin; they are identical in composition to the altar bread that becomes the Eucharist at the consecration during Mass in the Roman Catholic Church. The Opłatki wafers are embossed with Christmas-related religious images, varying from the nativity scene, especially Virgin Mary with baby Jesus, to the Star of Bethlehem.

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Opłatek is a Christmas wafer so austere it mirrors the Eucharist itself—unleavened, thin, made only from wheat flour and water. On Polish Wigilia and Lithuanian Kūčios, December 24th, these rectangular wafers arrive embossed with sacred imagery: the nativity, Mary cradling Jesus, the Star of Bethlehem. The tradition stretches across Poland, Lithuania, Moravia, and Slovakia, each culture holding the same reverent, minimalist ritual.

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  • centuries-old Catholic tradition
  • made with pure ingredients

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