Russian delegation with Holy Fire arrives in Moscow

Society & Culture April 23, 2022, 23:20

It will be delivered to the overnight Easter service at the Cathedral of Christ the Savior as well as to several other churches in Moscow and the Moscow Region

MOSCOW, April 23. /TASS/. A plane with a delegation of the Foundation of St. Andrew the First-Called that left Israel with a part of the Holy Fire from Jerusalem's Church of the Holy Sepulchre has landed at Vnukovo-3 airport, a TASS correspondent reports.

The Holy Fire appeared on Saturday at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. The leader of the foundation’s delegation, chairman of its supervisory board Vladimir Yakunin was present at the ceremony to light a lamp with the Holy Fire.

Those greeting the delegation at the airport also lit their lamps with the fire brought from Jerusalem.

Now it will be delivered to the overnight Easter service at the Cathedral of Christ the Savior as well as to several other churches in Moscow and the Moscow Region. Several representatives of various Russian dioceses will take it to various Russian regions.

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