Russian Church venerating memory of most popular Christian Saint
19.12.2009
MOSCOW, December 19 (Itar-Tass) – Saturday, December 19 is a special day for the Russian Orthodox believers, as the Russian Orthodox Church is celebrating the memory of St Nicholas — probably the most popular Christian saint in this country.
Festive liturgies are chanted in all the churches, and the Patriarch of Moscow and all Russia Kirill is leading a liturgy in the St Nicholas’s monastery at Pererva in southern Moscow.
The Russians’ passion for St Nicholas has been so big throghout history that Westerners who visited Muscovy in thd 16th and 17th centuries would even call them the Nicolaitans.
Even now about thirty churches in Moscow City alone are dedicated to St Nicholas and the number was twice as big before the Bolshevik revolution of November 1917.
Bearing direct connection to St Nicholas is the Nikolsky Street that begins in front of the Kremlin’s tower of the same name.
The St Nicholas’s monastery at Pererva was built in the 17th century. Life is bustling there although it does not have any monks at the moment. One could easily call it a parish-type cloister.
It is home to a Pererva seminary and has a parish schoolarts for children with a variety of creative sections on offer.
In 2009, the Pererva seminary’s soccer team won the cup in a soccer tournament among Russian theological schools.
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