Posted on 07/19/2010 6:14:06 AM PDT by marshmallow
Yekaterinburg, June 19, Interfax - Procession with cross from the site where the last Russian emperor's family was killed to the place where their bodies were eliminated took place in the Sverdlovsk Region at night of July 17.
50 thousand people participated in the procession, press-service of the Yekaterinburg Diocese reported.
Believers walked a 20-km way from the Church-on-the-Blood to the monastery in Ganina Yama.
The procession with cross dedicated to the assassinated tsar family is timed for the 92nd commemoration of their execution. Such processions with cross have been held regularly from 1992 when a cross was elevated in the Ganina Yama area.
The Church-on-the-Blood was built in 2003 at the site of the destroyed Ipatyev House where Nicholas II and his relatives were killed.
Do you think you will ever see a 50,000 beeliever cross bearing procession in the US? Of course not, for a variety of obvious reasons. This is an amazing comparison between the US and Russia that many thought they would never see.
Something to ponder.
I agree.
The Russians are emerging from the dark night of secularism, statism and atheism.
We're about to enter it.
My parents thought they would never see the collapse of the Soviet Union. Show one should not give up hope.
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