363. Речь Благочестивейшему Государю Императору Александру Николаевичу, по обновлении восстановленного древнего Романовского Дома

(Said on August 22nd; printed in the Works of the Holy Father in the Moscow Vedas of 1859 and in the collection of 1861). Most pious Sovereign! Your significant thought about the house of Your ancestors has come true. He is summoned from the darkness of oblivion, clothed in ancient and imitative patterns; looks at the future with the eye of past centuries and calls them to reflection. Here is a modest ancient house, which can count magnificent palaces as its descendants, and this is because piety, truth, and love for the Fatherland lived in it. Here are low churches from which lofty souls emerged. The Romanovs acted valiantly for the Fatherland, suffered generously for the Fatherland 895, and the all-righteous Father, “from Him every fatherland in heaven and on earth is named” (Eph. 3:15), arranged by His destinies that the Romanov family was grafted onto the ancient family of Kings, and produced the Fathers of the Fatherland. Every son of Russia will greet these memories when looking at the Romanov House, and his heart will tell him: honor and glory to the Tsar, who honors the valiant Ancestors! Let us also learn from Him to honor and preserve ancient valor, which can be decorated, but not replaced, by new splendor. In Creation The Holy Fathers do not have these words. You might be interested in: