With love for Saint Nicholas: on the saint’s Nativity, a festive service was held on Nikolskaya Hilltranslated

On August 11, on the day of the celebration of the birth of St. Nicholas, Archbishop of Myra of Lycia, wonderworker, Metropolitan Longin of Simbirsk and Novospassky celebrated the Divine Liturgy in the chapel of St. Nicholas on St. Nicholas Mountain in the village. Surskoe.

His Eminence was served by the secretary of the Simbirsk diocesan administration, Priest Roman Solodko, the dean of the Tsilninsky district, Priest Vladimir Manyakov, the dean of the Sursky district, Priest Georgy Dzhmil, the dean of the Main district, Priest Arseny Rozin, Archpriest Anatoly Kapranov, Priest Sergiy Chamyshev, Priest John Filippov, Deacon John Kosyakov, Deacon Grigory Shevchenko. The Bishop's male choir of the Simbirsk Metropolitanate under the direction of regent Roman Khitev sang at the service.

On this day, pilgrims who arrived for the service and participants in a multi-day religious procession, which began on July 30 in the village of Arskoye and ended the day before, prayed on Mount Nikolskaya, which is one of the revered holy places of the Simbirsk region.

Metropolitan Longin congratulated all those present on the day of remembrance of St. Nicholas - the day of his birth. This holiday was known in Russia from the 12th–13th centuries, then undeservedly forgotten. The celebration was restored in the Russian...