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on Sunday, September 14 at 7:32 PM. 
Moscow, September 10, Interfax – Historical bells of St. Daniel’s monastery have returned to the native abode after 80 years of “emigration” to the USA.
The bells were delivered from New York to the port of St. Petersburg on September 4. They visited Novgorod and Tver on their way to the capital. Representatives of authorities, clergy and processions with cross welcomed the shrine in all cities and towns.
The bells in a road train accompanied by road police arrived at the Serpukhovskaya Zastava Square. Several hundreds of believers and St. Daniel’s brethren welcomed the bells at the square with icons and church banners. When the road train came into sight, professors and students from Harvard University, where the bells had been preserved, started embracing and congratulating each other on return of the shrine and parishioners of the monastery thanked them in English.
The road train slowly moved from the square to St. Daniel’s monastery while modern bells welcomed it with their ringing.
The bells arrived from New York to St. Petersburg port in the morning on September 7 and visited Novgorod and Tver on their way to the capital. Representatives of authorities and clergy welcomed the shrine in all cities and believers organized processions with cross.
A road train with the bells accompanied by road police cortege arrives in Moscow from Tver on Wednesday at about 04.00 p.m. The procession with cross from St. Daniel's monastery is to meet the motor column at the Serpukhovskaya Zastava Square.
Ringing of contemporary bells will welcome historical bells in the monastery, then they are to placed at the monastery square.
St. Daniel's monastery will conduct a festival ceremony of consecrating historical bells, which are to be conveyed to the monastery. Then all arrived bells will ring in the monastery for the first time.
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 comple
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