Ekaterinburg, August 14, 2020
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The sisters of the St. Alexander Nevsky-Novo-Tikhvin Monastery in the Ekaterinburg Diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church have taken up the cause of working towards the possible glorification among the saints of Ilya Leonidovich Tatischev, a loyal subject of the Royal Martyrs who followed them into exile in the Urals and was there murdered by Bolsheviks.
Panikhidas for the repose of his soul are being served in the monastery after Tuesday after Vespers, reports the Ekaterinburg Diocese.
General Tatischev was an unusually noble and deeply pious man. For example, he knew the entire Gospel by heart, the diocese reports. He selflessly served Tsar Nicholas II for many years, and in 1917, he voluntarily followed him into exile in Tobolsk.
In Ekaterinburg, he was separated from the Royal Family and imprisoned. On June 10, 1918, he suffered a martyric end at the hands of the Bolsheviks together with Prince Vasily Dolgorukov. He was buried in the Novo-Tikhvin Monastery cemetery, though his grave was not preserved as the cemetery was destroyed during soviet times.
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“And now, when we pray for the repose of the soldier Ilya, he prays for us before the throne of the Lord,” write the sisters of the monastery.
“Much depends on us now,” say the nuns, addressing the people of Ekaterinburg. “If we turn to the soldier Ilya in prayer, receive help, and bear witness to it, then we can acquire another intercessor among the saints for our loved ones, our city, for the entire Ural region!”
“Therefore, we earnestly entreat you to report cases of miraculous help through the prayers of the soldier Ilya! Any information can serve for his glorification,” says the monastery.
Any relevant information can be reported through the monastery’s website here.
