On Saturday, July 14 the Czestochowa icon reached Lida. The news of the arrival of Our Lady spread widely. People stopped working, changed their plans, just to greet the Mother of God. At the town border a little surprise. A large group of people gathered by the cross there. Not so long ago the cross was not there, because the communists cut it down.
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Big crowds, emotion, fervent prayer, and even some tears that is how Belarus welcomed the Mother of God. On July 13 the Czestochowa icon in her pilgrimage stopped in the historic spiritual cradle, which is the region and city of Polotsk visiting the main churches of the Orthodox Diocese of Polock-Hlubokaje.
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On the evening of July 12 the pilgrimage Czestochowa icon peregrinating "From Ocean to Ocean" through the world in defense of life was formally transferred by the coordinator of the Russian part of the pilgrimage Dr. Igor Bełoborodova to the representative of the Belarusian Orthodox pro-life movement, Fr. Paul Serdiuk.
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On July 5th accompanied by ringing bells the pilgrim Czestochowa icon was brought to the Orthodox church of the Transfiguration of the Savior on the historic old market (Spaso-Preobrazhensky Sobor - Starojarmarchny) in Nizhny Novgorod.
The church is situated on the left bank of the Oka river where it is flowing into the Volga river. Its establishment in the late nineteenth century was associated with one of the largest markets in Russia. During the Bolshevik persecution after the October Revolution it was converted into a warehouse. Only in 1991 The church become a temple again, and until 2009 also served as a cathedral.
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"Pro-life van" - a car which is traveling with the icon of Our Lady of Czestochowa, in the evening of June 25 arrived to Yekaterinburg in the Ural mountains. On her way from Vladivostok by Ussuryjsk Country and Siberia she covered already about 7.5 thousand. km. Thus, the Asian part of Russian pilgrimage "From Ocean To Ocean" has taken place. Arrived safely and on time, but three times it was necessary to repair the car after flying over extra holes on the road.
- On the way to Yeakaterinburg
- Central Siberia - Krasnoyarsk
- Pro-life mobil
- By Motorboat on the Yenisey with the Czestochowa Icon
- On the Shores of the Pacific Ocean - Start
- From far away Vladivostok a personal letter of Galina Maslennikova
- Third day in Vladivostok
- Vladivostok Metropolitan Veniamin met with representatives of the International Committee of the Pilgrimage
- Already in Vladivostok
- Mother of God in the Czestochowa Icon went to the Far East