A trip to one of the Istra new martyrstranslated

On October 4, the opening of the new school year took place at the Sunday school of the Myronositsky Church in Istra. On this Sunday, after the Divine Liturgy, children, together with their parents and teachers, visited the house-museum of the holy martyr Alexy Smirnov in the village. Filatovo and the local Church of the Nativity of Christ, in which the priest served for more than forty years. The rector of the church, Priest Roman Lazarev, together with Mother Irina, warmly welcomed the guests. Father Roman spoke about the unique history of the church, its benefactors, about the bright and bitter pages of the parish, about its main shrine - the miraculous Tikhvin icon, which, having overcome a long, difficult journey, returned to its native church several years ago. During the years of the atheistic government, as well as during the Great Patriotic War, the village church suffered greatly; for a long time it stood in ruins, and now the children were able to see with their own eyes how the restoration and restoration of the ancient church was taking place. Just a few meters away is the home museum of the last abbot of St.

Alexy Smirnov, who was arrested in this house in 1938 and executed at the training ground in Butovo. Istra pilgrims met with the curator of the museum Maria Ivanovna Larikova and...