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Christmas wafer (Polish: opłatek plural opłatki; Lithuanian: kalėdaitis) is a central European Christian Christmas tradition celebrated in Poland Lithuania and Slovakia during Wigilia or the Christmas Eve Vigil.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 round wafers that become the Host after the Consecration during Mass in the Roman Catholic Church.

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