The Baptism of Grand Princess Olga (Part One of the Triptych “Holy Rus“)
Sergei Kirillov
1993
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On Wednesday, the official MP website reported that Archbishop Pavel Vyshgorodsky of the canonical UOC/MP, the Deputy Superior of the Kievo-Pecherskaya Lavra, protested the sale of playing cards with the image of Grand Princess St Olga. “As a Christian, as a bishop, and as a member of the clergy, I don’t countenance blasphemy of sacred things, whether such mockery is open or implied. I’m against the circulation of these playing cards with the image of Grand Princess St Olga categorically. These cards must be withdrawn from sale immediately”, Vladyki Pavel stated. “We’ll use all means available to us; we’ll go to the secular courts if necessary, because holy things were, indeed, profaned. First of all, please, I ask all of all of you to be sober and not be led astray by your anger, because, if you do so, you’ll have to answer for it, if not now, then, on the Last Day”, he noted. Vladyki Pavel urged “everyone to vote in favour of truth”, and he emphasised the point that “this mockery shouldn’t stand in our country, with its ancient heritage of Christianity and its strong Orthodox traditions”.
30 January 2008
Interfax-Religion
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