2/5/2014
Lado Gegechkori, Igumen Valerian (Golovenko)
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In the winter of 1937, the sound of gunfire could be heard throughout the territory of the Soviet Union… The clergy, who accepted their priestly rank along with a crown of martyrdom, lay in the ditches of common graves, and died from sickness and hunger behind camp gates and in prison walls. What motivated them to take that step?
Lado Gegechkori
"Orthodoxy in the Ukraine" published this interview with the monks from Desyatina Monastery in Kiev, who stood between the police and the protesters in late January, stopping the violence for at least a few days through their prayer and example.
