Posted on 10/03/2018 6:03:52 PM PDT by marshmallow
This is the second Church of St. Eugene being built in the Ekaterinburg Diocese in four months.
In this year of the centenary of the martyric podvig of the Royal Martyrs and their faithful servants, the building of another church dedicated to Dr. Eugene Botkin was begun yesterday.
His Eminence Metropolitan Kirill of Ekaterinburg and Verkhotursky celebrated the rite of the consecration of the foundation of the new church—the second named in honor of the Romanovs’ doctor in the Ekaterinburg Diocese—yesterday in the city of Pervouralsk in the Sverdlovsk Province, reports the site of the Ekaterinburg Diocese.
Met. Kirill also consecrated the foundation stone of a Church of St. Eugene in Ekaterinburg in June.
His Eminence was assisted in the rite yesterday by a number of clergy from throughout the Ekaterinburg Diocese. The stone was laid in a grove in the city of Pervouralsk. It is planned to be a single-altar stone church, with a capacity of up to 150 people. The parish community in honor of St. Eugene Botkin was already created in 2015.
“I have really wanted a church in the name of a great Russian who remained loyal to his oath, loyal to his homeland, loyal to his tsar—a church to our Eugene Sergeevich Botkin, who is the patron saint of soldiers and doctors today—to be built on this spot among the Russian birch trees,” Met. Kirill noted in his archpastoral homily.
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