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Tree planted by St. Job of Pochaev suddenly uprooted

Pochaev, Ternopil Province, Ukraine, May 2, 2023

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Nearly 500 years ago, St. Job of Pochaev, the great saint of the Holy Dormition-Pochaev Lavra, planted a number of linden trees along a road outside the monastery.

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During Holy Week, the last surviving tree was suddenly uprooted.

“The history of our Church and our country is disappearing before our very eyes,” writes the Diocese of Chernivtsi and Bukovina of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church.

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“Everyone who has ever gone to Pochaev and walked to the monastery cemetery remembers this linden tree, and now there are no linden trees, no icons, no memory…” the diocese writes.

The statement doesn’t specify who destroyed the tree that had remained since the times of St. Job of Pochaev, though withered.

A local resident, Anatoly Galanets, had turned the tree into a chapel.

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5/2/2023

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Like the Lavra in Kiev, the Lavra in Pochaev has also been state-owned since Soviet times, and is administered by the Pochaev-Kremenets Reserve.

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While the state continues to drive the monks out of the Kiev Caves Lavra, Parliamentary Deputies of the Verkhovna Rada also have their sights on the Lavra in Pochaev again.

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If the Lavra in Kiev is the holiest and most important site in all of Ukraine, then the Lavra in Pochaev is the second-most holy and important site.

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The incident came just two days after the Ternopil Provincial Council voted to appeal to federal authorities to evict Orthodoxy from the Pochaev Lavra, as it is doing in Kiev.

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Having expelled the Ukrainian Orthodox Church from the churches upper section of the state-owned Kiev Caves Lavra, the authorities are now moving ahead with plans to kick the Church and its Ukrainian faithful out of the Pochaev Lavra as well.

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Like the Lavra in Kiev, the Pochaev Lavra has remained in state hands as a holdover from the Soviet Union, with use of the ancient monastery being leased to the canonical Church for the past 30 years.