O holy passion-bearer of the Tsar-Martyr Nicholas, the Lord has chosen you as His anointed one, for the mercifulness and right to judge your people, and the guardian of the kingdom of the Orthodox being: royal service You carried out this care for souls with the fear of God. Having tested you like gold in a furnace, the Lord allows you bitter sorrows, like long-suffering Job, and after the throne of the king sends deprivation and martyrdom. Having endured all this meekly, as a true servant of Christ, now enjoying the highest glory at the Throne of all the King, together with the holy martyrs: the holy Queen Alexandra, the holy Tsarevich Alexi, the holy princesses Olga, Tatiana, Marie and Anastasia and with your faithful servants.
But since we have great boldness towards Christ the King, for whose sake He also suffered, pray with them that the Lord will forgive the sin of the people who did not forbid your murder, the king and anointed of God, yes The Lord will deliver the suffering Russian country from the cruel atheists, for our sins and apostasy from God, and will restore the throne of the Orthodox kings, and will grant us forgiveness of sins and for all virtue He will instruct us so that we may acquire humility, meekness and love, like these martyrs who appeared, so that we may be made worthy of the Kingdom of Heaven, where we are united with you and all the saints, the new martyrs and Russian confessors will glorify the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages. Amen.
Rarely does a saint, even before his official glorification, be accompanied by such widespread popular veneration and such a multitude of miracles as (albeit secretly) already accompanied the last Russian Emperor and his family from the moment of his martyrdom. In 1917, our righteous Tsar did not want to fight for power, fearing to become the cause of new bloodshed on the Russian land, already torn by war and civil strife. But he never renounced his people, slandered and betrayed by almost everyone. Now the Russian Orthodox people have two Nicholas the Wonderworker: next to each of us, Saint Nicholas, who is dear to each of us, stood Tsar Nicholas II. The Holy Royal Martyrs were glorified at the Council of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church in 2000.