His Beatitude Metropolitan Volodymyr Conducted Festivities Dedicated to Glorification among Saints of Nun Anastasia (Romanova)

Ukrainian Orthodox Church

On January 24 at the Holy Intercession Convent of Kyiv the solemnities were conducted on the occasion of glorification in the rank of the locally venerated saints of the founder of this abode, a woman of piety, nun Anastasia (Romanova).

The solemn glorification was conducted during the Divine Liturgy, presided over by His Beatitude Metropolitan Volodymyr at the Church of St. Nicholas.

Concelebrating to him were: Metropolitan Onuphriy of Chernivtsi and Bukovyna, Metropolitan Niphont of Lutsk and Volyn, Metropolitan Hilarion of Donetksl and Mariupol, Archbishop Serhiy of Ternopil and Kremenets, Archbishop Theodore of Kamyanets-Podilskyy and Horodok, Archbishop Ioann of Kherson and Tavriysk, Archbishop Metrophanes of Bila Tserkva and Bohuslav, Archbishop Volodynyr of Pochayiv, Archbishop Anthony of Boryspil, Bishop Alipiy (Pohrebhyak), Bishop Iriney of Nizhyn and Pryluky, Bishop Volodymyr of Shepetivka and Slavuta, Bishop Panteleimon of Ivano-Frankivsk and Kolomiysk, Bishop Seraphim of Yahotyn, Bishop Alexander of Pereyaslav-Khmelnytskyy (Secretary for the UOC Primate), Bishop Panteleimon of Vasylkiv, brethren clergy and the clergymen of Kyiv.

At the decision of the Holy Synod of the UOC (Journal № 64 of November 24, 2009) nun Anastasia (+April 13/26, 1900) was glorified among the ranks of the locally venerated saints.

At the end of the Divine service Metropolitan Volodymyr together with concelebrating clergy bowed unto the honorable relics of the Venerable mother, following which he greeted those attending on the prominent event of glorification of nun Anastasia among the saints. Also the Primate wished the believers that anyone addressing the saint would obtain peace from God, joy, salvation and eternal life through her prayers.

To the point. Great Princess Alexandra Romanova was born in 1838. All her life she was engaged in charitable activity. In St.Petersburg she established the Holy Intercession community of the sisters of mercy, and during 17 years she had chaired the Fellowship of Children’s Orphanages, which comprised some 5 thousand orphans.

In 1880 the Great Princess moved to Kyiv. In 1889 she established the Holy Intercession Convent. Many charitable institutions were arranged at the convent. After the husband’s death in 1891 she was tonsured nun with the name Anastasia.

For many years the princess was paralyzed and could move only in wheelchair, but she got healed after the prayer at the copy of the Pochayiv Wonderworking Icon of the Mother of God.

Nun Anastasia passed away to the Lord on Holy Thursday of 1900 and was buried before a vast assembly of people in the abode she founded, opposite to the altar of the Holy Intercession Church.

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