very pleased with the news today, I can not share it with the public:
In the village Bychykha Gorodok district on Tuesday was a holiday. Here at the newly built church offered up the dome, the cross, and a belfry established ten bells. More than six months in the Belarusian province looking for a small country church building resident of the Russian capital. Not for his own glory but for the glory of God and to help local believers who have to get to the nearest church many miles. Construction of the temple in honor of the Pskov-Pechora Mother of God "Tenderness", which gained special fame and veneration after the Virgin Mary through this the icon freed from the siege of Pskov troops of Polish king Stefan Batory in 1581 , expected to be completed next year.
Stefan Batory at Pskov, painting by Jan Matejko.
absurdity of the situation, if someone did not understand that the Stefan Batory, who was not only the Polish king, but the Grand Duke of Lithuania, two years before the siege of Pskov, Polotsk, and freed all of North Belarus from a barbaric invasion of the troops of Ivan the Terrible (in Europe, better known as Ivan the Terrible), during which the region was completely ruined. In particular, Polotsk Muscovites brought into slavery 50,000 Orthodox residents, cut all the Catholics and Jews. After that, Polotsk, at that time the largest On the city, lost its importance and eventually became a provincial town. Rich once Polotsk declined. To dedicate the church an icon, "protection" Enemy of the liberator of the Belarusian lands on this very enemy - it's hard.
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