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The priest of the diocese held a conversation with schoolchildren of the village of Ozernovskytranslated

September 20, 2026 · 1 min read

At the invitation of the school director Galina Vyacheslavovna Yazykina, the cleric of the Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky Cathedral, priest Sergiy Cheremisin, visited the local secondary school (MAOU Ozernovskaya Secondary School No. 3) and held an open class hour in the school assembly hall with all students in grades 5–11.

The topic that Father Sergius raised was the preservation of traditional family values. This was especially true after the holiday of Peter and Fevronia, which this year fell on September 13. Father Sergius told the students about the life of the holy noble princes, about their feat of faith and love, and also touched on the history when, in Soviet times, the relics were confiscated and were in the museum: many, many people began to come there and even pray, which led to the further fate of the relics - they were hidden in the storerooms of the museum and only in 1989 were returned to the Church. At the same time, Father Sergius said that before the revolution, marriage registration was under the jurisdiction of the church and all residents of Russia got married, but with the advent of Soviet power, everything was removed from the jurisdiction of the Church, the Church was separated from the state and modern registry offices were created.

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Dragan Kostić

It is good that Father Serđej mentioned how people used to come to the museum in Soviet times to pray before the relics of Peter and Fevroniya, so they hid them in storage. This shows that faith cannot be extinguished by prohibitions. As for the wedding, I actually remembered how my parents told me that they got married in the church in 1958, although it was risky. Thank you for coming to Ozerovski.

Ilie Ionescu

He also spoke about how the icons hid in the store when the world used to pray to them in the museum. It clearly shows that you cannot stop faith with prohibitions. In our family, the aunts would consecrate themselves even before the war, when the Church still kept records of marriages, so this story seemed very close to me.