President Vladimir Putin visited Valaam, an island in the Northern part of lake Ladoga, on the day of the memory of the founders of the Valaam monastery. It is reported by TASS on Tuesday, July 11.
The head of state at the Church was met by the Patriarch of Moscow and all Russia Kirill. Putin venerated the relics of St. Sergius and St. Herman’s and put a candle at the icon of the Mother of God.
In late may, the President visited the rogozhskoye old believers ‘ spiritual center. Metropolitan of Moscow and All Russia of the Russian old believers ‘Church Cornelius’ he gave a book about the life of St. Nicholas of 1911 edition.
The press Secretary of the President Dmitry Peskov noted that it is wrong to perceive the interest of Putin to the old believers ‘ Church as a “new phenomenon”: the head of state communicates regularly with representatives of all faiths, not singling out any of them.
25 may the Russian leader visited the Sretensky monastery, congratulated his vicar the Bishop of Egorievsk Tikhon with the opening of a new temple and talked with representatives of the Russian Orthodox Church abroad. The day before he came to the temple of Christ the Savior, where are venerated the relics of St. Nicholas, brought from Italy.
A year ago Putin also visited the Valaam monastery in the day of its Foundation.