Perm, Perm Krai, Russia, October 30, 2024
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The holy relics of Hieromartyr Peter Vyatkin were solemnly transferred to a convent in Perm over the weekend.
On Saturday, October 26, the relics were carried into the Convent of the Dormition of the Most Holy Theotokos in Perm during the All-Night Vigil. They were placed in the Church of the Apostle John the Theologian, reports Hidden Rus’.
Edinoverie refers to those churches that celebrate according to the pre-Nikonian rite but are under the jurisdiction of the Moscow Patriarchate, unlike the Old Believers who remain separate from the Church.
On Sunday, October 27, His Eminence Metropolitan Methodiy of Perm led the festive Divine service. A new carved reliquary, built with the donations of the faithful, was prepared for the relics of St. Peter, which were unearthed in the Perm village of Sretenskoye on October 16, 2023.
New vestments for the relics were provided by the Kurovskoye Edinoverie community.
St. Peter is the only Edinoverie saint to have his relics glorified in the Russian Church.
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Hieromartyr Peter Vyatkin was a superior of the Edinoverie churches of the Perm diocese. In 1912, he was one of the delegates to the first All-Russian Congress of Edinovertsy in St. Petersburg and served as a rector of the Edinoverie church in the village of Sretenskoye, Perm Krai. In 1918 in the village of Sretenskoye, St. Peter was brutally tortured by the god-fighters.
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