Vyatka, June 4, 2024
Photo: Newsler.ru / Andrey Kotelnikov
Yesterday, the commemoration day of the Vladimir Icon of the Mother of God, the bishops of the Vyatka Metropolia celebrated the Divine Liturgy and a prayer service with an Akathist to St. Nicholas of Myra at the Holy Dormition-St. Triphon Monastery in Kirov. These services preceded the beginning of the All-Russian Velikoretsky Cross Procession.
This procession, which attracts thousands of pilgrims, is the largest annual procession in Russia.
The Divine Liturgy and prayer service to St. Nicholas were led by Metropolitan Mark of Vyatka and Sloboda. He was joined by Bishop Paisiy of Yaransk and Luzsk, Bishop Vsevolod of Urzhum and Omutninsk, and numerous clergy.
Photo: Newsler.ru / Andrey Kotelnikov
Pilgrims of the Velikoretsky Cross Procession, who gathered once again on Vyatka soil to undertake the long journey with the icon of St. Nicholas to the place of the its discovery on the banks of the Velikaya River, participated in the services.
Archpriest Alexander Balyberdin, the dean of the Dormition Cathedral, addressed the faithful with a sermon.
After the Liturgy in the church, a prayer service with an Akathist was performed on the Cathedral Square of the St. Triphon Monastery in front of the Velikoretsky icon of St. Nicholas.
The Governor of the Kirov Region, A.V. Sokolov, addressed the pilgrims with words of guidance and congratulations.
Then, 20,000 pilgrims left the walls of the St. Triphon Monastery following the Velikoretsky icon of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker.
The main celebrations of the Velikoretsky Cross Procession will take place on June 6 on the banks of the Velikaya River, at the site of the appearance of the Velikoretsky icon of St. Nicholas.
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