Today, at six in the morning, the pilgrims made up the traditional religious Procession to Ganina Yama to commemorate the death of the Romanov family.
According to the Yekaterinburg diocese, was attended by 10 thousand people is six times less than last year (the organizers attribute this to the epidemiological situation).
After the divine Liturgy in the night from 16 to 17 July, the believers went from the Temple on the Blood to the monastery of the Holy Royal martyrs. The column was headed by the Metropolitan of Yekaterinburg and Verkhoturye Kirill and three bishops from the region. Also, the pilgrims were accompanied by volunteers from the Orthodox service of mercy, representatives of the Fund “Nika” and the Cossacks of the Orenburg Cossack army society.
the Royal Procession, according to the press service of the diocese, was held with observance of security measures: participants in measure temperature, offered masks, antiseptics to disinfect hands. Recall that the route passed through the center of Ekaterinburg and other areas of the city, the village Shuvakish is about 20 kilometers. Ended the procession the Liturgy in honor of the family of the last Emperor Nicholas II.
the Romanovs were shot in the night from 16 to 17 July 1918 in Yekaterinburg. Family canonized. The first procession in honor of the Royal passion-bearers from the Temple-on-Blood to the Ganina Yama, where he left the bodies of the Romanovs in the Urals was held 18 years ago.
