The relics of Prince Vladimir traveled to Tula

Orthodox Church went on Orthodox dioceses of Russia and Belarus. In the six months to touch the Holy relics of the inhabitants will be able 50 settlements 2 States. The first city on the route of the ark with the relics will be Tula, and will end the journey of the relics on 1 December in Kaliningrad.

The relics of St. Prince Vladimir in the year of the 1000th anniversary of his death will carry on the dioceses of the Russian Orthodox Church. Within 6 months of the Shrine will be able to believers worship in 50 villages of Russia and Belarus. As told by the Synodal information Department of the Russian Orthodox Church, may 27, reliquary, which is an amazing thing preserved in the years of Russian rule, and now transferred to the Russian Orthodox Church, solemnly went from Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Tula.

Relic will do a great way: Belgorod, Smolensk, Rostov-on-don, Vladimir, Nizhny Novgorod, Kazan, Saransk, Astrakhan, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Vladivostok, Khabarovsk, Novosibirsk, St. Petersburg-a total of 45 domestic large and small cities and 5 settlements of Belarus: Minsk, Brest, Grodno, Mogilev and Vitebsk", - stated the President of the Synodal Department. In every metropolis Shrine will stay 4-5 days. "This is the 1st large-scale relics of Grand Duke since their acquisition in the XVII century," said the adherents of the Church. Unprecedented in its own scope, the campaign will end on 1 December in Kaliningrad.

Remember, the Novgorod Prince Vladimir died July 15, 1015. Baptist of Russia was buried in the Kiev Church of the tithes, which in 1240, was demolished by the Mongol-Tatars. And only in 1630-ies in the ruins began to dismantle at the direction of Metropolitan of Kiev and Galicia Peter (Grave). Part of found relics of the Holy Prince was transferred to Moscow and then was kept in the assumption Cathedral of the Kremlin.

In the years of Russian rule, the ark was located in the collections of the museums of the Moscow Kremlin. In 2010, the relics were solemnly transferred to the Russian Orthodox Church and is located in the Cathedral of Christ the Rescuer. "Moscow" part of the Shrine during Soviet times and until not so long ago occurred time was kept in the collections of the museums of the Moscow Kremlin. In 2010, a unique power in the ark were solemnly transferred to the Russian Orthodox Church and is located in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior.

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