Posted on 07/30/2017 6:33:12 PM PDT by marshmallow
On Sunday, the day before the 99th anniversary of the brutal murder of the holy Royal Martyrs which the Church celebrates today July 17, a monument to Tsar Nicholas II and Tsarevich Alexey was consecrated on the territory of the St. Alexander Nevsky Cathedral in Novosibirsk, according to the site of the Novosibirsk Diocese.
The entire square in front of the cathedral was filled with Orthodox Christians. People were also gathered across the street for the youth cross procession, dedicated to the holy Right-Believing Peter and Febronia and the Day of Family, Love, and Loyalty, which was to begin in the city immediately after the consecration of the monument.
The veil was pulled back from the monument to the tune of the state anthem of the Russian Empire “God Save the Tsar!”
The monument was consecrated by Metropolitan Tikhon of Novosibirsk and Berdsk. The consecration was also attended by Bishop Paul of Kolyvansky, the dean of Novosibirsk churches Archpriest Alexander Novopashin, and the clergy of the Novosibirsk Diocese.
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In fulfillment of the Holy Synod’s recommendation, it was decided to erect a monument to Emperor Nicholas II in Novosibirsk. At the initiative of Novosibirsk residents, an organizing committee was established and the collection of funds was undertaken towards constructing the monument.
“And now, today,” said Vladyka Tikhon, “on this Sunday, when we celebrate a small Pascha, the Tsar stands before us, resurrected from historical oblivion, laying his hand upon the shoulder of his heir. It is a symbol of transferring power and faith to the next generation of Russians. He is as if saying to those gathered today for this youth cross procession, ‘Move forward, but preserve our Russian world, preserve the Orthodox faith; God is with us!’”
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Patriarchy! Where’s Anastasia, Maria, Olga, and Tatiana?
Funny how the barefoot hillbillies don’t descend upon this thread like they do others. If they only knew how many times the Most Holy Theotokos was invoked during this ceremony. Oh boy!
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The smell of burning Brimstone must be pervasive !!!
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Anastasia has been dead for several years.
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Aren’t you forgetting someone ?
They’re putting up statues to their historic figures, while in the USA we are
tearing them down...
Nicholas and Alexi too!
Rasputin?
Yeah I know, I left off the Alexandra. I was just trying to mock the feminist wing of the SJWs who cry foul on everything these days, not provide a history lesson.
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But Anastasia’s death was fairly recent, in historical terms. (mid ‘90s)
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Are you Disneyfied or something?
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She died 1917 so I assume you’re talking about some Disney princess cartoon or something.
She didn’t die in 1917.
If I remember correctly, it was 1994.
The real Grand Duchess Anastasia Nicolaevna died in 1918 with the rest of her family. All of the Romanovs in Nicholas II's immediate family have been accounted for with remains verified by DNA.
Don't get me started on that horrid Anastasia cartoon, that totally ignored the Bolsheviks killing the Royal Family and instead made out Rasputin to be the culprit.
You remember incorrectly.
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