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…for relic tours. <\/p>\n

John the Baptist’s hand is touring Russia.<\/a><\/p>\n

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From the Guardian:<\/a><\/p>\n

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<\/a>The return has been hailed by the Russian Orthodox church with great pomp and reverence. The head of the church, Patriach Alexei II, welcomed it at a ceremony on Wednesday at the Church of Christ the Saviour in central Moscow. The hand will remain there until Friday, when it will be taken on a tour of Russia, Belarus and Ukraine before returning in July to Montenegro, its present home. <\/p>\n

The Patriach called on Christians to pray before the hand, according to the state news agency RIA Novosti. <\/p>\n

The relic’s return to Moscow is part of an orchestrated revival of the church, which is playing a central role in giving Russians a sense of spiritual and national belonging. The move was financed by a religious foundation chaired by Vladimir Yakunin, the head of Russia’s vast state railways network who is frequently referred to as a potential successor to President Vladimir Putin.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

From the BBC report:<\/a><\/p>\n

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The relic which they believe to be the hand of John the Baptist is on public display in the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Moscow. <\/p>\n

It is back in the Russian capital for the first time since the mother of the last tsar, Empress Maria Fyodorovna, fled with it in the aftermath of the 1917 Bolshevik revolution. <\/p>\n

After that it was cared for in Russian emigre communities, before finding a more permanent home in a monastery in Montenegro. <\/p>\n

The queue to see the relic stretches for hundreds of metres. <\/p>\n

It begins beneath the shining onion domes of the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour and ends near the banks of the Moscow river, in the heart of the Russian capital. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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