Catholicos Patriarch Consecrates Three Crosses – One Goes to Abkhazia
2011-04-07
Georgian Church
Catholicos Patriarch consecrates three crosses at Annunciation Church, Tbilisi. One cross out of three will be sent to Abkhazia.
Catholicos Patriarch of Al Georgia, Archbishop of Mtskheta-Tbilisi, Metropolitan of Pitsunda and Sukhumi-Abkhazia, His Holiness and Beatitude Ilia II wishes Happy Annunciation to the parish and prays for joy and love.
His Holiness states if a man does not have a sense of love, he will not have sense of joy. Catholicos Patriarch announces that three priests will be sent to Afghanistan to support Georgian soldiers there and pray for their peaceful coming back to Georgia.
The Patriarch have consecrated three priests to archpriest’s rank and awarded golden crosses. Catholicos Patriarch consecrates three wooden crosses and notes that the tradition of cross consecration on Annunciation Day goes back to King Mirian.
His Holiness states that one cross shall be kept at Tbilisi Holy Trinity Cathedral, another cross shall be sent to Abkhazia, and the third one to Adjara.
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