The dean of the Smorgon district visited the new city memorial and performed a funeral litanytranslated

On November 6, the dean of the Smorgon district, Archpriest Anatoly Rezanovich, and the cathedral choir took part in a meeting dedicated to the opening of a memorial plaque indicating the villages of the Smorgon district that were burned during the Second World War. The event was attended by representatives of the district authorities, war and labor veterans, garrison soldiers, representatives of labor collectives, public associations, organizations and institutions, clergy, youth. The priest served a litany for the innocent victims and consecrated the building. After the official part and an address from the district administration, the rally participants honored the victims with a minute of silence and then laid flowers at the monument.
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