Posted on 05/07/2019 5:41:30 PM PDT by marshmallow
A copy of the miraculous Icon of the Savior Not-Made-By-Hands, considered the patron of the armed forces of the Russian Federation, began its nation-wide tour in the southern military district with a visit to Sevastopol—the base of the Black Sea fleet, on Bright Monday, reports the site of the Russian Orthodox Church.
The icon is being delivered to military units and military district compounds throughout the vast country and to the Northern Fleet over the course of the next several months.
The head of the main military-political department of the administration of the armed forces Colonel-General Andrei Kartapolov participated in the solemn ceremony of transferring the icon to the St. Vladimir Cathedral in Sevastopol, explaining why the icon of the face of the Savior is honored as the patron of the armed forces: “The Icon of the Savior Not-Made-By-Hands was depicted on the banners of the Russian army, and His image was placed over the gates of fortresses. Soldiers always saw in it their patron, and civilians—their defender and Savior.”
Kartapolov also spoke about the icon’s coming travels to military units and churches throughout the country: “Throughout the year, it will be transported to many compounds and military units of the Russian army and to churches of the Russian Orthodox Church so that not only thousands of soldiers would be able to venerate the sacred object, but also the Orthodox faithful in various corners of our homeland. By air, by water, by land, the icon will traverse more than 35,000 miles. It will visit more than 120 cities, more than 150 churches, and more than 300 compounds and military units.”
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And Americans can’t even have a Bible on the POW table...
It is a rare, surviving, actual Polaroid photo of Jesus.
It’s his High school graduation picture.
I do know that the Russians routinely carried religious iconography back and forth to the International Space Station while that was essentially forbidden of Americans by NASA.
But let’s ignore that and make light of the fact that icons were used throughout much of the Church’s history to teach Scripture to a mostly illiterate populace in order to aggrandize our iconoclastic (based in Islam) variations of Christianity.
On second thought, let’s not and celebrate the reawakening of the Christian faith to the Russian people.
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