"The belt Virgin" in Moscow
 

«The belt Virgin" in Moscow


19.11.2011, Russia|Today is arriving in Moscow Orthodox relic - "The belt Virgin", which is owned by Vatopedi monastery on Mount Athos in Greece. The monks of the monastery is said to have first agreed to part with the relic, which according to legend has healing properties - can, for example, to cure infertility. To Moscow with a belt ark of God was formerly in St. Petersburg, Yekaterinburg, Norilsk, Vladivostok, Krasnoyarsk, Tyumen, Nizhny Novgorod, Diveyevo, Saransk, Samara, Volgograd, Rostov-on-Don, Stavropol and Kaliningrad, which came to look at it already About two million people.

During the stay in Moscow relics in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior will be a constant vigil several heated buses to accommodate the medical teams, receiving patients and needy people. Also in the church will be on duty ambulances and MES, will be involved counseling office and toilet cubicles set 300. At the ten days that the "belt of the Virgin" will be in the HHS, vehicular traffic on the waterfront will be blocked Prechistenskaya.

According to legend Orthodox mother of Jesus Christ on the third day after his death, dropped from heaven your belt apostle Thomas, who was late for the funeral of the Virgin. The Catholic Church, in turn, believes that the Virgin Mary gave her favorite times are the woman who kept it for many years. The first significant appearance of the "orthodox" zone in Constantinople and the erection of his rank in the state of holy Church of Constantinople Synaxarion refers to the X century. It is interesting that along with the belt of the Virgin Mary in Vatopedi monastery, there are several zones in other monasteries and churches. Since IX century such a zone is stored in France, the Benedictine monastery of Notre Dame de Loches. There is such a belt in one of the churches of Florence, in a monastery in Cyprus Trooditissa in the monastery of the Georgian city of Zugdidi, Homs in Syria kept the 60-cm zone, which was brought there, allegedly, by the Apostle Thomas.

Access parishioners to worship the "belt of the Virgin" is around the clock to 21:00 GMT on 27 November.

http://drugoi.livejournal.com/3653602.html

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Ride today at HHS .. .. wild pandemonium of pilgrims buses (large quantity), rather different med.sluzhby, fire ... and so on.
Do not even know - a feat it ... or that so much to defend :eek:> (first included in the HHS defended the third day :eek:>: eek <! - ~ 1 ~ ->
What motivates people?
Despair and a desperate belief?
That was driving and thinking :rolleyes:>

denied the existence of the ROC VIP-passes to the belt of the Virgin


"No special VIP invitations does not exist", - told RIA "Novosti" deputy head of the Patriarchal press service of Deacon Alexander Volkov.




It. http://www.kommersant.ru/news/1823534


But it turns out, there are checkpoints.

Photo from "Radio Liberty":


http://www.svobodanews.ru/content/article/24400957.html


There is also a pass in the hands of a pilgrim ...

Buses packed with mostly aunts who sterility of age should be. A standing for 3 days in the cold ( being in the reproductive age ) , you can easily earn.
The Middle Ages some !

Everybody can bow to the belt of the Virgin particle queue :

Sometimes people (taking into account our medicine) can only hope for a miracle.

In turn many cancer patients, people with disabilities who are already sentenced the official medicine!

They can only sympathize!

Well, I do not know.
:D> Today at 7 pm, in the subway, declared that the queue starts at the exit from the station, "Sparrow Hills".
That is,
4 metro stops!

Traffic jams because of them.
People swearing terribly!

Manna, you can ask a question - you were talking to people sentenced medicine ? :(>
You've seen their eyes ? When they do not count on that , and want to live ?
God forbid anybody.
Let us not condemn , but to understand ...
A cork - they are, were and will be , it's already a given. This is - Moscow, a metropolis :rolleyes:>

And Now imagine what would be a queue , if brought to Moscow the other great Christian shrine - foreskin of Jesus Christ!
That would be a queue as the queue !

I sympathize . And help , sometimes. Save the Children Fund at the Russian Children's Hospital :
http://deti.msk.ru/
But without priests (too many examples of their alochnosti in my life ).