Crimea became a part of Russia on the day of peninsula's heavenly protector

Moscow, March 19, 2014

Russian President Vladimir Putin, the State Council Chairman, Crimean Parliament Chairman Vladimir Konstantinov, Crimean Prime Minister Sergey Aksionov and the city of Sevastopol executive Alexey Chaly have signed an agreement on the inclusion of Crimea, including Sevastopol, into Russia on the day when the Orthodox Church commemorates the finding of the relics of the peninsula heavenly protector Archbishop Luka (Voyno-Yasenetsky).

On these days all churches and monasteries of the Crimean Diocese uplifted prayers before the icon of Archbishop Luka for multiplying love and peace on the peninsula.

Archbishop Luka (born Valentin Felixovich Voyno-Yasenetsky) was born in Kerch in 1877. After graduation from the higher school he decided that he should be involved only the activities “useful for suffering people,” and chose medicine and later became a priest.

He carried out his ministry in Soviet period, so he had to face many hardships, the archbishop went through arrests, trials and spent 11 years in exile.

Archbishop Luka was a ruling bishop of Crimea from 1946 to 1961. He received the Stalin reward for his book on surgery in 1946.

He died on June 11, 1961, on the Day of All Russian Saints. Relics of Archbishop Luka were found in 1996 and are kept in the Holy Trinity Cathedral in Simferopol. The Russian Church canonized him among new martyrs and confessors in 2000.

Interfax-Religion

3/24/2014

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On March 19, 2014, a meeting of the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church took place in Moscow, chaired by His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia. In the minutes no. 4 of the Holy Synod, dedicated to the situation in Crimea, the following resolution was passed. Joint prayers in the Diocese of Simferopol to St. Luke of Crimea for increase of love in the Ukraine Joint prayers in the Diocese of Simferopol to St. Luke of Crimea for increase of love in the Ukraine Joint prayers in the Diocese of Simferopol to St. Luke of Crimea for increase of love in the Ukraine Joint prayers in the Diocese of Simferopol to St. Luke of Crimea for increase of love in the Ukraine
The services will be celebrated before Icons of St. Luke every day from Monday to Saturday at 11.00 until further notice of the ruling bishop.
Comments
Sally Iloff9/28/2016 6:25 am
LPPi pray and in prayer I call St Luke from Crimea to help me and interseeds for me with Christ the Lord! Amen
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