Ekaterinburg - Corfu: in the Ural capital they met the right hand of St. Spyridon in accordance with the traditions of the island of Corfutranslated

A military band, sailors, the flag of Corfu and thousands of believers - yesterday, September 11, 2026, in the Ural capital solemnly and reverently greeted the great Christian shrine - the right hand of St. Spyridon of Trimythous, which arrived from the island of Corfu to Russia for the first time in eight years.

Yekaterinburg became the 11th city on the saint’s pilgrimage route across Russia. The religious procession of the great shrine is laid across the entire country. Before this, the right hand had already visited many Russian cities: Cheboksary, Kazan, Diveevo, Nizhny Novgorod, St. Petersburg, Pskov, Smolensk, Irkutsk, Khabarovsk. The ark with the right hand of the saint was delivered to Yekaterinburg after a stay in the Chelyabinsk Metropolis.

Speaking about the main idea of ​​the solemn ceremony, the head of the diocesan department for interaction of the Church with society, the senior priest of the Church-Monument on the Blood, Archpriest Maxim Minyailo, said that the organizers tried to implement on the Ural soil the ancient traditions of celebrating the days of memory of the saint on the island of Corfu, where he resides with his incorruptible relics, so that Saint Spyridon would feel at home here, in the city of Saint Catherine.

— The meeting of the relics was...