Ekaterinburg, July 2, 2018
Photo: ekaterinburg-eparhia.ru In this year of the centenary of the martyric podvig of the holy Royal Martyrs, a boulevard in the name of St. Eugene Botkin, the family’s faithful doctor who accepted a martyr’s death at their side, will be built in Ekaterinburg.
The issue was discussed on Saturday at a meeting of the Commission for Naming Toponymic Objects in Ekaterinburg, reports the site of the Ekaterinburg Diocese.
The initiative to name the new boulevard after the doctor-saint was brought by a petition of the residents of the neighborhood where the street will be built: “We, the residents of the Akademichesky Region, support the naming of the boulevard … in honor of the Russian doctor and saint of the Russian Orthodox Church Eugene Botkin.”
Photo: ekaterinburg-eparhia.ru The appeal also notes that other streets in the area already bear the names of other doctors, as well as statesmen, and adds, “We believe it is logical to use the bright name of the doctor Eugene Botkin, an example of fulfilling his duties to his patients, and accepting death together with them, deeply revered in the medical community, and having made a great contribution to the development of medicine, in the future cluster in our region,” the Ekaterinburg residents write.
Having considered the appeal and studied the provided sketches, the committee approved the people’s appeal.
Photo: ekaterinburg-eparhia.ru St. Eugene was canonized as Righteous Eugene the Passion-Bearer by the Council of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church at their February 2-3 session. His glorification was then celebrated on February 7, the day of the feast of the Synaxis of the New Martyrs and Confessors of Russian Church, in the Ekaterinburg Church on the Blood, built on the site of the Ipatiev House, where St. Eugene was martyred along with the Royal Family.
St. Eugene was also canonized by the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia along with the Royal Martyrs in 1981. The Royal Family was canonized by the Moscow Patriarchate in 2000, though St. Eugene was not canonized at that time.
The first church in honor of St. Eugene was consecrated in Moscow in 2016. Churches in his honor are also under construction in St. Petersburg and Novosibirsk.
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