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Patriarch Remembers 90th Anni of Tsar’s Death
Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Alexy II called on Russian Orthodox Christians to reflect on the murder of Nicolas II, his wife Empress Alexandra Feodorovna, the Crown Prince Alexey and Great Princesses Olga, Tatyana, Maria and Anastasia and their servants Elisaveta and Varvara. They were killed by the Bolsheviks on July 17, 1918, in Ekaterinburg. That act of evil laid the foundation for the tragedies suffered by the Russian people in the 20th century – war, civil war, hunger, repressions on a scale never before seen, the patriarch said. “We mentally turn to the tragic event in Russian history being remembered now over and over again to give spiritual meaning to the past and the present of our people,” Alexy II said.
“It would be desirable to hope, that the period theomachy and the trials connected with it is irrevocably gone in the past. Positive signs of it can be seen in spiritual shape of our time. There is a returning of society to everlasting values of faith, all around Orthodox relics are being revived from the void, the ground of the Urals, watered by the blood of innocent sufferers, today receives tens of thousands of pilgrims from all ends of Russia and from abroad coming to bow to the feat of the sacred Royal martyrs,” the leader of the Russian Orthodox Church stated in a message released by the church’s press service.
The release from any crisis is in spiritual renewal, the patriarch continued. The degree of Christian relationship of any person to the world and to himself is measured by the how much a person is prepared to accept the suffering he meets on his life’s path.
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