Posted on 07/18/2015 2:22:52 PM PDT by NRx
On the evening of July 16/17, to honor the memory of the murdered Russian Emperor Nicholas II and his family, more than 60.000 Orthodox faithful took part in the 20 km royal procession pilgrimage from the Church on the Blood in Ekaterinburg to the Monastery of the Royal Martyrs at Ganina Yama.
On the evening of 16/17 July, to honour the memory of the murdered Russian Emperor Nicholas II and his family, more than 60,000 Orthodox faithful took part in the 20-km royal procession pilgrimage from the Church on Blood in Honour of All Saints Resplendent in the Russian Land in Ekaterinburg to the Monastery of the Royal Martyrs at Ganina Yama. The procession passed without incident, said "the regional newspaper" the press service of the Ekaterinburg diocese.
Before the procession a Divine Liturgy was held at the Cathedral on the Blood, which was headed by Metropolitan Kirill of Ekaterinburg and Verkhoturye concelebrated hierarchs: Metropolitan of Tashkent and Uzbekistani Vincent, Archbishop of Sebaste Theodosius (Jerusalem Patriarchate), Bishop of Tarski and Tyukalinsk Savvatii, bishop of Glazov Igra and Victor, Bishop of Nizhny Tagil Serov and Innocent, Bishop Kamensky and Methodius of Alapaevsk.
At two o'clock in the morning on July 17, residents and guests of Ekaterinburg, which included Orthodox Christians, monarchists, among others began the 20-km procession, which ended at half past six in the morning. The procession was led by Metropolitan Kirill of Ekaterinburg and Verkhoturye, accompanied by members of his clergy. They were followed by Cossacks carrying icons and banners. This year, a group of Japanese pilgrims, dressed in samurai armour took part in the procession. The column stretched for several kilometres.
Throughout the course of the procession, pilgrims were accompanied by mobile teams of assistance who provided the faithful with bottles of drinking water, and first aid. Buses were provided along the procession route for people to stop and rest, or for those who could not complete the journey.
Most noble and sublime was your life and death, O Sovereigns;* wise Nicholas and blest Alexandra, we praise you,* acclaiming your piety, meekness, faith, and humility,* whereby ye attained to crowns of glory in Christ our God,* with your five renowned and godly children of blest fame. * Martyrs decked in purple, intercede for us.
That is not Christianity
by a long shot.
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“That is not Christianity”
Says you.
Russia was Christian for 500 years before the so called Reformers began inventing their new religion.
I do not think the Russian Royal Family are holy deities.
If it ain’t about Christ, its not Christian.
I wish you had posted this as a caucus.
Protestant here .. All Christians are saints. That said, the czar and his family would be our brother and sister believers who did not deserve to be murdered. Especially the kids.
Who said anything about deities? Sounds like you are inventing things (again).
Going back to the Torah. When celebrating Passover, and Sukkot amongst other Holy Days the Jews did not give praise to Moses or Arron for their leadership in the Exodus. Instead 100% of their praise was towards G-D.
This is poking a finger in Lenins eye, Sticking it to the Communist Murderers! never again will the Russians let a dumb idealology turn Mother Russia into a killing zone of fear and terror. A symbols of opposition to communism—the Royal Family should be so honored. The killers souls should burn in the Lake of Fire.
Also appreciate your posting the article. I've tried to keep up with the events concerning the family for years and am grateful that the family are all together again and received a Christian burial at last.
I am pretty sure I saw the icon for sale in the bookstore by the Russian Cathedral in San Francisco on Geary St. I can’t believe that an island of such complete and absolute Christian Orthodoxy can exist in that place. It boggles the mind.
Amazing how things have changed.
If 60,000 made it into the march .... how many must there be that still hold to the pre-Marxist glory of Tsarist Russia?
The iconography is very beautiful, and done in the traditional manner. However, the choice of the Cyrillic script is that of Tsarist times, and even to me, is a little difficult to read.
Martyr means messenger in Greek. This is not about praising Kings as deities but remembering the unjustice they suffered humbly the way Christ did, meeting Him thus in the torment.
There was a Catholic presence in the early days in CA but in the north and to Alaska there was a Russian Orthodox presence. North of where we lived, I remember the name Russian River and some other iconic something Russian which wouldn't have interested me at the time.
The Russian Orthodox seem to be very devout, and, just guessing, has come about as a result of "latter day" Russian emigres. Of course, my impression of Russians in the US is that many are totally secular.
I developed this "thing" about Russia about 20 years ago, don't know what precipitated it, must have been Glasnost. As an older teen I and my friends went to see the movie "Nicholas and Alexandra", and I never forgot the horror of the murder, also followed Anna Anderson, never felt in my heart that she was Anastasia which turned out to be right.
Checkhov and Tolstoy are probably my favorite Russian writers, one other I can't recall, brothers Karamazov.
Got it. It was the book and movie, Dr. Zhivago which stretches back to the late 60's early 70's. That stirred my passion for nearly all things Russian except the Communists for which I have an enduring well hatred. I've either gone to, rented or bought nearly every Russian film I could find.
I have a book “ST. Innocent, Apostle to America”; I’ve never really gotten into reading it but I think he was an Orthodox Missionary from Russia in the Northwest USA, Alaska too.
(For which reason the Holy Synod of Moscow proclaimed their glorification as Passion-Bearers -- the class of saint whose sanctity is shown in accepting a death in imitation of Christ under circumstances in which one is not kill for being a Christian per se, the first examples being Sts. Boris and Gleb.)
It is an artistic convention to portray those who have been glorified in Christ with nimbuses. Christ is portrayed with different sort of nimbus that proclaims not only His glory, but His deity and His Saving Death. A cross is always present in the nimbus on an icon of Christ, in which are the Greek letters omicron Omega nu, 'o On, the Existing One, the Greek translation of the name God gave Moses from the Burning Bush. So you see, they're not portrayed as "holy deities", but as human beings made holy by Christ
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