RUSSIA: PATRIARCH ALEXEI II OFFICIATES AT RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH SERVICE TO CANONISE THREE NEW SAINTS , INCLUDING TWO PRIESTS KILLED UNDER THE FORMER COMMUNIST REGIME
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RUSSIA: PATRIARCH ALEXEI II OFFICIATES AT RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH SERVICE TO CANONISE THREE NEW SAINTS , INCLUDING TWO PRIESTS KILLED UNDER THE FORMER COMMUNIST REGIME
- Title: RUSSIA: PATRIARCH ALEXEI II OFFICIATES AT RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH SERVICE TO CANONISE THREE NEW SAINTS , INCLUDING TWO PRIESTS KILLED UNDER THE FORMER COMMUNIST REGIME
- Date: 4th December 1994
- Summary: MOSCOW, RUSSIA (DECEMBER 4, 1994) (RTV - AVAILABLE ALL) 1. GV EXTERIOR ASSUMPTION CATHEDRAL, KREMLIN 0.07 2. CU INTERIOR OF CATHEDRAL, METROPOLITAN FEODOSY OF AMERICA WALKING DOWN AISLE 0.16 3. CUS PRIEST WITH CANDLES, CANDLE AND CROSS (2 SHOTS) 0.22 4. CU PATRIARCH ALEXEI II OF RUSSIA GIVING BLESSING AND WALKING DOWN AISLE 0.31 5. GV CONGREGATION AND PRIESTS (2 SHOTS) 0.35 6. GV PATRIARCH GIVING BLESSING 0.41 7. CU YOUTH IN CONGREGATION 0.44 8. CU PATRIARCH GIVING BLESSING WITH CANDLES 1.00 9. GV METROPOLITAN FEODOSY AND PATRIARCH EMBRACE 1.19 10. GV PRIESTS WITH CANDLES AND CROSSES 1.24 11. CU PEOPLE IN CONGREGATION 1.28 12. GV PRIEST PRESENTS ICON TO PATRIARCH 1.45 13. CU PATRIARCH HOLDS UP ICON 1.52 14. GV PRIESTS WITH SECOND ICON 1.57 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved.
- Embargoed: 19th December 1994 12:00
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- Location: MOSCOW, RUSSIA
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- Country: Russia
- Reuters ID: LVA1R0V7HTR0M3NO78RI72OTKTDP
- Story Text: Three new saints were canonised during a service held on Sunday (December 4) in one of the Kremlin's cathedrals.
The head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Alexei II of Moscow and All Russia, officiated at the service in the Assumption Cathedral.
According to the Russian Orthodox calendar Sunday was the Feast of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
Two of the three high-ranking priests canonised in Moscow on Sunday were killed under the Communist regime. Ioann Kochurov was born in 1871 and was executed by the Bolsheviks in 1917. Alexander Khotovitsky, who was born in 1872 and spent several years working as a missionary in America, was executed in 1937 on his return to his native land.
Many Orthodox priests were killed in the worst years of dictator Josef Stalin's repression.
The third new saint was Metropolitan Filaret Drozdov of Moscow and Kolomna who lived from 1782-1867. He was a contemporary of the poet Alexander Pushkin and the author of the first translation of the Bible into Russian.
The service was also attended by Metropolitan Feodosy of America and Canada and other Russian orthodox church leaders who were in Moscow to attend last week's Archbishops' Council.
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