Posted on 10/17/2018 7:20:09 PM PDT by marshmallow
Ten candidates were proposed yesterday for the renaming of South Sakhalin Airport on the far eastern Russian island of Sakhalin. Among the nominees was St. Innocent (Veniamin) of Moscow, the Equal to the Apostles and Enlightener of North America, reports Interfax-Religion.
St. Innocent was proposed as the future airport patron by Archpriest Viktor Gorbach, a member of the Public Chamber of the Sakhalin Region, during a meeting of the organizing committee for the renaming of the South Sakhalin Airport.
Documents with the proposals will be sent to the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation for consideration.
St. Innocent, the Metropolitan of Moscow, is glorified by the Russian Orthodox Church as an Equal-to-the-Apostles. In the 20th century, he baptized thousands of people, built churches, and founded and taught in schools. He created the alphabet for the Aleutian language and translated the New Testament using it. He stopped a smallpox epidemic by conducting mass vaccinations, and visited the Yakuts and Tungus, in places where ordinary priests never stopped.
St. Innocent was the first bishop of Kamchatka, the Kurils, Sakhalin, the Amur Region, and North America. In 1861, the saint visited the village of Due on northern Sakhalin, where a memorial cross and chapel in honor of his visit have been erected.
On December 10, 1997, a street in South Sakhalin was renamed St. Innocent Boulevard in connection with the 300th anniversary of the opening of the Kuril Islands by Russian sailors.
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So happy America made that purchase back in 1867.
It’s interesting how Russia is now more Christian than America.
Commendable that Russia is looking to its past history to honor religious leaders.
You know, that happens when you defend your culture and history.
Prior to WWII Japan occupied half of that island along with some of the Kurils which the Japanese still claim. Some of those outlying islands and territories in China Japan took from Germany when it fought with the allies (along with Italy which secured parts of northern Italy from Austria)in WWI.
The Japanese “occupied” South Sakhalin because Russia was foolish enough to go to war with Japan in 1904-05, and lost.
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