Aggressive mediocrity

A resident of Vyborg Alexander Niyazov dropped the “Gifts of the Magi” from the pedestal in the Cathedral of Christ the Gifts of the Magi from the pedestal in the Cathedral of Christ, the NTV television company reports . The parishioners helped to detain the attacker. Niyazov was delivered to the police department.

Niyazov told the television company that he needed only money, and he was not going to scatter the sacred relics for Christians. "I went to the clergy who were responsible there. I invited them to help me collect alms, give a horn for people who would help me. Because 90 thousand in one day you can either steal, and I don’t know where it is possible, or to collect alms. I collected about 20 thousand in one day, and I needed 90. I did not give me the banks, not in the funds, not in the funds. Charity.

What "good matter" he needed money, Niyazov did not specify.

At the same time, the Organizing Committee of the Bringing to Moscow "Gifts of the Magi" denies that Niyazov managed to drop the relic on the floor. “After he stood in the shrine, he began to behave inadequately, and security officers led him out of the temple, as he interfered with the prayers,” the interlocutor of RIA Novosti explained.

She noted that security officers handed over a person to duty teams of medical and psychological assistance "to evaluate his mental, moral and physical condition." “We did not apply to the police with a statement, since there was no fact of the incident,” the representative of the organizing committee said.

"Gifts of the Magi" arrived in Russia on December 7. Since the 15th century, they have been stored in one of the monasteries on Mount Athos in Greece. This is the first time that the relic leaves the country's territory.

In Moscow, people stood in line for 12 hours to apply to the relic. On Tuesday, "Gifts of the Magi" will be transported to St. Petersburg. In addition, they will be exhibited to worship believers in Minsk and Kyiv.

Photo by Yuri Timofeev

In 2011, in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior and in several other cities of Russia, the belt of the Virgin was exhibited. The shrine was visited by about 900 thousand believers. Patriarch Kirill then said that the line to the belt of the Virgin became a symbol of faith for the Orthodox and shock for unbelievers. Cyril emphasized that the introduction of the shrine was needed "including so that people would see that we live in an Orthodox country." "Well, who called this feeling by obscurantism, superstition - even one artist agreed - sectarianism, let it be on the conscience of all these people. How can they take the right to judge people, not knowing what is happening in human souls. When some people, without knowing the ford, climb into the water and begin to talk about the fact that a person’s desire for a miracle is almost obscurantism, just their own illness, internal illness. The disorder splashes out outside, ”said the Patriarch.