Monastic tonsures celebrated at St. Elisabeth’s Convent in Minsk

Minsk, April 19, 2021

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A great spiritual event took place at St. Elisabeth’s Convent in Minsk last week, as five more women gave their lives to Christ in the angelic habit.

The tonsures took place on Thursday in the fifth week of Lent, the day dedicated to the Great Canon of St. Andrew of Crete and the supreme ascetic example of St. Mary of Egypt.

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“Five sisters were awarded the angelic image—Nun Theodosia (Yevtushenko), Nun Serapiona (Sheleg), Nun Platonida (Shpakova), Nun Fomaida (Galiaskarova), and Nun Nika (Pytkina),” by the hand of His Eminence Metropolitan Benjamin of Minsk, the Patriarchal Exarch of All Belarus, reports the Convent website.

Met. Benjamin also congratulated Fr. Andrei Lemoshonok, the founder and spiritual father of the monastery, on his birthday and presented him with an icon of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker.

St. Elisabeth’s is the largest monastery in Belarus, home to hundreds of nuns and the local Sisters of Mercy. The monastery also has properties throughout Belarus where orphans, the disadvantaged, the addicted, and many others can find help.

On the Sunday of the Veneration of the Cross, four men were tonsured into monasticism at Valaam Monastery in Russia.

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4/19/2021

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