The ROC will give to St. Isaac’s Cathedral, the reliquary with the relics of apostles Peter, Paul, and Andrew
After the transfer of the ark with the relics of saints will be kept in the altar of the chapel of St. Alexander Nevsky and daily be brought for veneration by the faithful during worship.
ST. PETERSBURG, March 5. /TASS/. The ark with the relics of Orthodox saints — the apostles Peter, Paul, and Andrew, and saints Nicholas and Spyridon will be broadcast Saturday in St. Isaac’s Cathedral.
As reported by TASS in St. Petersburg diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church, the transfer will take place in the framework of the world Russian people’s Council “the Spiritual strengthening of the Russian army and civil society” with the blessing of Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirill.
“The charitable Foundation of the Holy Martyr Boniface donate to St. Isaac’s Cathedral, the reliquary with the relics of the Apostle St. Andrew, Apostle Paul, Apostle Peter, St. Nicholas and St. Spyridon, — told in the diocese. — After the transfer of the ark with the relics of saints will be kept in the altar of the chapel of St. Alexander Nevsky and daily be brought for veneration by the faithful during worship”.
The ceremony will take place before the divine Liturgy in the Alexander Nevsky chapel, where divine services are performed daily.
The temple and Museum
Worship at St. Isaac’s Cathedral, which was interrupted in 1928, was restored in 1990. In 2005 it signed an Agreement on joint activities on the territory of the objects of the Museum complex between the State Museum-monument “St. Isaac’s Cathedral” and the St. Petersburg diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church. Now, as reported in the parish of Cathedral, services at the temple are committed every day, morning and evening.
Christmas 2016 for the first time in 88 years the night service, and in February 2017 believers held around the Cathedral are two cross stroke
During the services sign for the faithful in the Cathedral is free.
The Church of disputes: this is normal
Before a procession of 19 February, the rector of St. Petersburg theological Academy, Archbishop of Peterhof Ambrose, who headed the bishops ‘ Liturgy, recalled that as a result of years of cooperation of the Theological Academy and the Museum revived the unique worship of ancient tradition.
Such service is really the level of the Imperial capital, the cultural solitaries AMBROSIASTER Peterhof Saint-Petersburg theological Academy
In his sermon he called the debate about the transfer of St. Isaac’s Cathedral in the free use of the ROC “normal”, stressing that “the main thing in this — that the dispute is not escalated into a confrontation, enmity, hatred, the Church is not an arena for political battle.”
Before 2017, the use of the Russian Orthodox Church of St. Sampson Cathedral in three churches of the GMF St Isaac’s Cathedral was made over a thousand of agreed services in a year. According to the Director of the Museum of Nikolai Burov, “this is more than in some churches, are not part of the Museum institutions.”
The controversy surrounding the monument
The government of St. Petersburg announced that on December 30, 2016, was given a decree on the transfer of St. Isaac’s Cathedral in the use of the Moscow Patriarchate of the Russian Orthodox Church on the basis of the adopted in 2010 by the Federal law “On transfer to religious organizations of property of religious appointment”.
The building of St. Isaac’s Cathedral is owned by St. Petersburg, but guarded at the Federal level and included in the list of world cultural heritage of UNESCO. Before the revolution the Cathedral was not the property of the Church and was administered by the interior Ministry due to the high costs of maintenance of the building.
In 2016, according to the Museum, was held in the Cathedral service, including the big Christmas service and a memorial service for the victims of the tragedy of the A321 over the Sinai, was visited by about 18 thousand people. During the same period in the GMF St Isaac’s Cathedral was visited by about 3.9 million tourists, and this past new year holidays, Isaac was visited by 146 thousand Russian and foreign tourists.