Posted on 02/03/2016 5:08:06 PM PST by marshmallow
Moscow, Fabruary 2, Interfax - Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia has said the inquiry into the killing of the family of Nicholas II will be completed once the truth is found.
"I have received highest-level reassurances that there will be no hurry and no tying down of the end of the inquiry to any particular date. The inquiry will last as long as is necessary in order establish the truth," the patriarch said at the current Bishops' Council in Moscow on Tuesday.
Unlike the situation in the 1990s, the state has given representatives of the Church - archbishops, clerics and invited scientists - "the possibility to participate directly in the inquiry," the patriarch said.
"Expert examination is three-level: historical, anthropological and genetic. An important step of the examination was the taking of samples for genetic tests of the remains ascribed to the saint martyrs, the Emperor Nicholas Alexandrovich and the Empress Alexandra Feodorovna, as well as the remains of the Emperor Alexander III in the immediate presence of representatives of the Church," the patriarch said.
He pointed out that earlier, in response to his request to re-open the inquiry into "the Yekaterinburg remains" and the exhumation of the remains of Alexander III, "the Russian president gave consent to a full-scale and comprehensive investigation of this topic."
"The Russian Federation Investigative Committee set up a new investigative group whose work is under permanent control of the Investigative Committee chairman, Alexander Bastrykin," the patriarch said.
He recalled that a governmental commission formed in 1993 postulated that the remains found near Yekaterinburg were those of the royal family (except Tsesarevich Alexey and Grand Duchess Maria), "thus making the historical, anthropological and genetic examinations a mere formality."
Those commission members who firmly advocated a more considered approach (Metropolitan Yuvenaly of Krutitsa and Kolomna and the artist Ilya Glazunov) raised a whole host of issues as to the correctness of the ongoing scientific-criminal inquiry but "never received satisfactory answers," the patriarch said.
There was also a negative reaction to the proposal to hand over part of the remains to the Church to commission DNA tests at independent scientific laboratories, Patriarch Kirill said. Moreover, at a Synod meeting on October 6, 1995 "the invited senior state officials even started threatening the patriarch and members of the Holy Synod, equating their doubts about the inquiry conclusions to violation of state laws."
The refusal of senior members of the governmental commission to hold constructive dialogue with the Church, as well as conducting additional historical, anthropological, medical-forensic and genetic tests, was the reason the argument in favor of the Yekaterinburg remains being recognized as those of the royal family were not accepted by the Church, the patriarch said.
Eleven people, including members of the Russian Imperial Family and people from their entourage, were shot on the Urals regional council presidium's order in the early hours of July 17, 1918.
In July 1991, the remains of nine people were found in a mass grave discovered on the Staraya Koptyakovskaya road near Yekaterinburg. They are believed to be those of the royal family members: Nicholas II, his 46-year-old wife Alexandra Feodorovna, their daughters - 22-year-old Olga, 21-year-old Tatyana and 17-year-old Anastasia, as well as people from their entourage: 53-year-old Yevgeny Botkin, 40-year-old Anna Demidova, 62-year-old Aloisy Trupp and 48-year-old Ivan Kharitonov.
Members of the imperial family were buried at a sepulcher of the Peter and Paul Cathedral in St. Petersburg on 1998. In 2000, the Russian Church canonized the new Russian martyrs and confessors Nicholas II, his wife Alexandra Fyodorovna and their five children.
The remains of two more people were discovered during archaeological excavation works 70 kilometers south of the first grave on July 29, 2007. The remains have still not been buried, but numerous expert analyses indicate that the remains were most likely those of Crown Prince Alexey and his sister Maria.
A governmental working group suggested that the remains of Tsesarevich Alexey and Grand Duchess Maria be interred at the Romanov burial vault at the Peter and Paul Fortress on October 18, 2015. The group allowed for the possibility of further inquiries to dispel the Church's doubts about the authenticity of the 'Yekaterinburg remains'.
Afterwards the Investigative Committee renewed the criminal inquiry into the killing of members of the royal family. This made it possible to begin additional tests to confirm the authenticity of Alexey and Maria's remains kept at the State Archive.
On September 23, 2015, samples from the presumed skeletons of Nicholas II and his wife, as well as from the clothing of the last emperor's grand-father, Alexander II, which he was wearing at the time of his murder, were taken in the presence of Church representatives at the Peter and Paul Fortress. The new DNA test confirmed the authenticity of the skulls of Nicholas II and the Empress Alexandra Feodorovna. In November 2015, the tomb of Alexander III was opened.
Efforts are underway to compare the genetic material of Nicholas II with that of Alexey and Maria, to establish the genotype of Alexander III, to detect hemophilia in the remains of the Empress Alexandra Feodorovna, her daughters and Tsesarevich Alexey. In addition, there are plans to complete the investigation of the blood on Alexander III's clothing, and the work on the servants and members of the close entourage of Nicholas II who were executed together with the royal family. "Holy Patriarch Kirill requested that everything be done from a 'clean slate'," Vladimir Solovyov, a senior criminal investigator at the Russian Investigative Committee, told Interfax earlier.
For its part, the Russian Orthodox Church set up an ad hoc commission to study the results of the new inquiry. In the event of a favorable conclusion of the inquiry into the authenticity of the remains, the question of recognizing them as holy relics will be submitted for consideration with the episcopate.
Lenin did it.
commies killed them.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexei_Nikolaevich,_Tsarevich_of_Russia
Royal Passion Bearers of Russia, pray to God for us!!!!
This will make a cool forensic files show.
Now if we could get the same access to Pope John Paul I.
Passion-bearer Tsar Nicholas
Troparion Tone 1
Most noble and sublime was your life and death, O Sovereigns; / Wise Nicholas and blest Alexandra, we praise you, / Acclaiming your piety, meekness, faith, and humility, / Whereby you attained to crowns of glory in Christ our God, / With your five renowned and godly children of blessed fame. / O passion-bearers decked in purple, intercede for us.
Kontakion Tone 2
Royalty and martyrdom were joined together, O blessed ones, / In your death for righteousness and right belief, O wise Sovereigns, / Nicholas and Alexandra, with your five children. / Hence, Christ our God counted you worthy of thrones in Heaven; / And with twofold crowns of glory, / You reign forever, adorned with grace divine.
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Interesting that the Russians are trying to rediscover and connect to their history while we’re doing everything to bury, distort and rewrite ours.
Thank you, and God Bless you!!!!
You’re right!!!!
But the revisionist history spewed out by the obamunists, cintonites, “gays”, Muhammadans, and the false “professors” and “scholars” who are TRAITORS both to scholarship and to America will not stand!!!!
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