Sacred procession with Navy icon in Severomorsk. Photo: mil.ru
Posted on 01/15/2020 7:05:10 PM PST by marshmallow
The church icon that serves as patron for Russia’s Navy sailors is visiting the Northern Fleet base towns in the Kola Peninsula.
Sacred procession with Navy icon in Severomorsk. Photo: mil.ru
The sacred religious symbol was on the 21st December flown into the Northern Fleet headquarters of Severomorsk and subsequently taken around in a church procession among the military vessels on the port side.
The icon depicts Andrew the Apostle and is the patron of the Russian Navy. It is on a grand tour in the country’s five fleets before it will be installed in the military cathedral currently under construction in Moscow.
"Today’s event helps raise the moral spirits of the Northern Fleet warriors, as well as the town inhabitants, and is an example of the Russian Orthodox Church’ attention to the protectors of the motherland", fleet head commander Aleksandr Moiseev said in an address published by the local diocese.
The icon was on the 30th December moved to Murmansk and will in the course of January be on display in the region’s military towns of Gadzhiev, Vidyaevo, Zaozersk and Luostary. It will subsequently be brought to the city of Severodvinsk in Arkhangelsk Oblast and then to the Russian east coast and the Pacific Fleet, the Northern Fleet informs.
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During WWII we would say prayers for the conversion of Russia after the Ete Missa Est and the reciting of the last gospel
Yes, we said that prayer for many years. I have thought of that often.
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