Gifts of the Magi were sent special brittle from Moscow to St. Petersburg

In the first hour of the day Moscow time, a special board was sent from the capital's Airport, which will deliver the Great Christian shrine - the Gifts of the Magi - to St. Petersburg. The relic was brought to Moscow from Athos on January 6, in the northern capital, believers will be able to bow to her, starting from the evening of today, until January 17.

Today, by 16:30 in Moscow, an ark with the gifts of the Magi will be brought to the temple of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God of the Novodevichy Monastery on Moscow Avenue of St. Petersburg. She will meet the head of the St. Petersburg Metropolis Metropolitan Vladimir there. For pilgrims, the temple will be open from 06:00 to 22:00. On the last day, January 17, the shrine will be available until 13:00, ITAR-TASS reports.

- Athos monks are grateful for the reception of the Gifts of the Volkhvov in Moscow

According to the headquarters organized by the governor of St. Petersburg to meet the shrine in the northern capital, all the necessary measures for mass access of the townspeople to the Generals of the Magi were in full.

Then the shrine will be delivered to the house of mercy in Minsk (January 18-24) and the Kiev Pechersk Lavra (January 25-30).

In Moscow, the Gentle of the Magi in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior worshiped more than 400 thousand Muscovites and guests of the capital. This was announced today at a meeting of the Moscow Government, First Deputy Head of the Department of Interregional Cooperation, National Policy and Relations with Religious Organizations Yuri Nedinin.

According to him, the city attracted the necessary amount of forces and means for the comfortable location of pilgrims in the queue. In particular, 93 buses for recreation and heating, 580 mobile toilets, cleaning equipment, 8 tanks with drinking water for the preparation of free tea were involved. In addition, 36 power points and sales of hot tea were opened at a reduced price of 15 rubles. "The forces of the Ministry of Emergencies organized the work of nine field kitchens and mobile points that supplied pilgrims with free hot tea," said Nedin, adding that 177.5 thousand glasses of hot tea were distributed.

The rule of law in the area of ​​the temple was provided daily by 300 police and military personnel of the internal troops. At the same time, the official continued, almost three times compared to past similar events increased the number of volunteers - up to 200 people on duty in two shifts. Also, specialists of the city psychological assistance service, employees of social assistance centers, and the social patrol brigade were involved in working with pilgrims.

According to the department, the event was covered by employees of more than 160 different media, which prepared a total of over 3 thousand 270 messages and publications.

The mayor of the capital, Sergei Sobyanin, thanked the city services that were involved in ensuring this event, as well as volunteers and employees of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in Moscow.

Athos monks are grateful for the reception of the Gifts of the Volkhvov in Moscow

The rector of the Athos Monastery, 83 -year -old Archimandrite Parfeniya (Murelatos), who brought to the Russian Orthodox Church a sacred relic for Christians of the whole world - the gifts of the Magi - is satisfied with the stay of the shrine in Russia and the technique that was rendered to guests with Athos in Moscow.

"We leave Moscow with very good, very pleasant impressions. We believe that bringing gifts to Moscow is a great blessing of God, the Virgin for the whole Holy Mount Athos and great help for all Christians. Let the Lord bless the whole world and the whole church," said Archimandrite Parfeniy at the press approach at the Vnukovo -3 airport.

According to him, the biggest miracle that occurred during the stay of the Grathov Gifts in Moscow is that, "despite the fact that it was January and there should have been frost, the weather was very good, and thus thousands, hundreds of thousands of Orthodox Christians were able to fit in the shrine without any difficulties."

The rector of the Athos monastery thanked for the reception of Patriarch Kirill, in general, the entire clergy of the Russian Orthodox Church and the entire Russian people. " He also clarified that bringing the Gentiles of the Magi to Russia, Belarus and Ukraine became possible thanks to the three blessings received by the Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus' Kirill, the Patriarch of Constantinople Bartholomew and the Holy Cinema of the Holy Mount Athos.

In turn, the head of the board of trustees of St. Vasily the Great, Konstantin Malofeev, who was the initiator of the gifts, thanked the metropolitan city hall "for an excellent organization, thanks to which more than 400 thousand people were able to attach to the shrine in such a short time," RIA Novosti reports.

Recall that the last hours of the shrine of the shrine in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior were overshadowed by an unpleasant incident . A resident of St. Petersburg Alexander Niyazov scattered gifts in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior when he tried to steal a box with donations. He was detained by pilgrims, who became eyewitnesses of the incident, and handed over to the police. At the same time, the man was drunk, according to NTV .

Niyazov claims that he needed to collect 90 thousand rubles "for a good deed." "I went to the clergy who were responsible there. I invited them to help me collect alms, give a mouthpiece for people who would help me. Because you can either steal 90 thousand in one day, and I don’t know where to get it, 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 funds, not in funds, not in funds. Charity. What kind of goals were required for the money, the Petersburger did not explain.

According to another version, Niyazov came from St. Petersburg to Moscow to bow to the shrine, and dropped the gifts from the pedestal, obeying a certain “voice”, which he heard at the entrance to the temple, the Russian News Service reports.

The organizers of the Bringing of the shrine refused to put forward against the detained prosecution. However, according to some reports, the police opened a criminal case on the very fact of hooliganism, reports Echo of Moscow in St. Petersburg . The relics were not injured as a result of the incident.

Meanwhile, in the temple itself partially refuted the information that the gifts of the Magi became the "victim" of the parishioner. “Everything is in order with the gifts, nothing happened to them. All the time in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, they remained in their place under the control of monks from Athos and the staff of the temple,” said the head of the press service of the Prirrichment of the shrine Maria Korovina today.