Posted on 01/09/2020 12:12:52 AM PST by rintintin
Orthodox Christians in Russia marked Christmas this year by attending a special midnight mass held in churches and cathedrals throughout the country starting in the late hours of Jan. 6 and ending early in the morning of Jan. 7.
President Vladimir Putin attended the service in St. Petersburg’s Transfiguration Cathedral, where he was baptized. Meanwhile, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church Patriarch Kirill led the mass in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow.
(Excerpt) Read more at themoscowtimes.com ...
Linky no Worky.
Oh sorry. It works now. Mea Culpa.
Good to see the babushka is alive and well.
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