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To: achilles2000

What exactly is your animus against the Holy Orthodox Church?

The Holy Synod of Moscow proclaimed the glorification of the Holy Royal Passion-Bearers Nicholas, Alexandra, and those with them (to use the brief version rather than giving the whole list). Passion-Bearers’ sanctity is shown chiefly in being murdered, going to their death in a Christ-like manner, but in circumstances in which the motive for the murder is not the saint’s Christian faith per se (that would be a Holy Martyr, rather than a Holy Passion-Bearer). The title was first given to Sts. Boris and Gleb, who refused to fight their brother Svatoslav for the throne of Kiev, preferring meek deaths to fighting over worldly things on account of their newly embraced Christian faith.

Interfax is not a house-organ of the Russian Church, so if they left that out, it’s not the Church’s fault.


11 posted on 07/26/2012 7:09:16 AM PDT by The_Reader_David (And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know. . .)
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To: The_Reader_David

There is no animus at all. I do think that every statement referencing the event should emphasize that they and their children and servants were brutally murdered by the Communists.


16 posted on 07/26/2012 3:44:27 PM PDT by achilles2000 ("I'll agree to save the whales as long as we can deport the liberals")
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