Posted on 08/23/2010 12:43:03 PM PDT by TaraP
Moscow, August 23, Interfax - Cross made of clouds appeared for several minutes in the sky above the Lubyanka Square in Moscow during a prayer service to the Solovki new martyrs last Sunday.
"It was seen by all the people, who attended the Solovki Candle action on the eve of the Solovki new martyrs and confessors commemoration day and numerous police officers who guarded Lubyanka Square," action organizer Pavel Illarionov told Interfax-Religion on Monday.
He reminded that the goal of the prayerful meeting was to obtain permission of Moscow and Russian authorities on setting up a commemorative cross near the Solovki Stone and building an Orthodox chapel to commemorate victims killed in repressions of the 20th century.
"Some people doubted that such a thing may happen, but I said: "Soon you'll see it with your own eyes." But even I couldn't expect that the sign in the sky would appear just in several minutes after a prayer to new martyrs began," Illarionov said.
According to him, the cross was seen during 20 minutes of the prayer service, then the clouds concealed it. Professor Pavel Florensky, a grandson of the renowned martyr, speaking after the prayer service said that no matter what rational explanation this sign may have "for a believing heart this miracle doesn't need any comments," and it made him believe that the Orthodox cross and church-chapel will be opened on Lubyanka Square very soon.
The Solovki Candle action was dedicated to the 90th anniversary of setting up the first Soviet concentration camp on Solovki Islands. Participants chanted "Memory Eternal" to all "suffered in severe trials on Solovki islands and other places.
Wow, love that panorama. Do you know where it was taken? Thanks.
Imagine how upset the Saudis would have been if it would have appeared above Mecca during prayers. They would’ve probably send up jets to shoot it down.
Just pure coincidence, but I snapped this with my iPhone today on the way to work: 
That is I snapped that picture this morning (23 Aug)
It’s not a ‘stretch’. It’s clearly a cross.
Most likely made by jets, but still a cross.
It’s only a cross because of the cropping...
In reality, it’s an X or a +
I agree. The last days will come as a surprise and America will have disappeared by then.
XX?
So, is that a message that God is female?
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