St. Daniel's bells delivered to Russia from America
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St. Petersburg, September 5, Interfax - Historical bells of the Moscow St. Daniel's monastery are delivered to the St. Petersburg port from Harvard University (USA). "Unique action on unloading 17 bells has been realized, the weight of two main bells is twelve and six tons," press-service of the St. Petersburg port has reported. On return St. Daniel's bells, St. Isaac's Cathedral will celebrate a festival liturgy and conduct a procession with cross to the bells placed before the cathedral. St. Petersburg governor Valentina Matvienko, chair of the Svyaz Vremyon guardian council chairman Viktor Vekselberg, representatives of the Russian Orthodox Church and Harvard University are expected to take the floor. Then the bells will be loaded to special transport and delivered through Novgorod and Tver to Moscow. A festival ceremony of blessing historical bells and transferring them to the monastery will be conducted in St. Daniel's monastery. Then all delivered bells will toll for the first time. The first of St. Daniel's 18 historical bells was brought back from New York to Moscow in September 2007. The bells hardly survived the 1930s and were sold abroad. Member of the American charitable mission in Moscow and Harvard University Professor Thomas Wittemore saved the bells from total loss. He persuaded American manufacturer Charles Richard Crane, who was interested in Russia, to buy the bells. Several buildings of the Harvard University campus were adjusted to have the bells installed on them.First attempts to bring the unique bells back to Russia were taken in the mid 1980s. After talks with Harvard University organized by Alexy II and Svyaz Vremyon foundation and final agreement on their return to Russia signed in March 2007 the Society of Church bell ringers made their exact copies in Voronezh. It was decided to gift two more bells to Harvard. They won't be a part of the university complex.
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http://www.interfax-religion.com/?act=news&div=5139
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http://www.interfax-religion.com/?act=news&div=5139
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