This icon is a national treasure. Throughout Russia, and not just the church. And place it in a museum, but not at the altar, even the best of the temple. Can the Diamond Fund of all personal belongings, too, to give the church the priests? And St. Basil's Parish to do?
And faith in God, too, should not be ostentatious. You look divine from Christ the Savior Cathedral on the big holidays - all former Communists and kegebisty with candles are, maybe rightly so - to atone for sins, but it too is the audience is. God is one for all and an appeal to his most private and intimate.
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