Patriarch Tikhon's relics to be brought to the USA and Canada in 2009
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Moscow, December 17, Interfax - The Relics of St. Tikhon, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, will be brought to parishes of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia (ROCOR) in the USA and Canada in 2009.
The sacred procession with the Relics will be held in the spring of 2009 as part of the program launched by St. Andrew the First-Called Foundation and the Center of National Glory of Russia, the Foundation's spokesperson told Interfax-Religion. The bringing of the relics was blessed by Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Alexy II. Metropolitan Laurus, the previous Hierarch of ROCOR, who died in 2008, also made the relevant request to the Foundation.
St. Tikhon was the first head of the Russian Orthodox Church whose time as Patriarch was under the Soviet regime. In 1989, he was canonized and glorified as head of the Assembly of Russian New Martyrs and Confessors who had suffered persecution for their faith from the Bolsheviks. At the turn of the 20th century, Patriarch Tikhon has become the symbol of the Orthodox resistance against the Soviet power and, therefore, he is specially worshipped by the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad which history is closely connected with the White movement. Today, the holy Hierarch's relics rest at the main Cathedral of the Donskoy Monastery in
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