Pilgrimage trip of the Zvenigorod deanery to the Butovo training groundtranslated
On July 4, a pilgrim group from the Zvenigorod deanery visited the Butovo training ground on an excursion.
The pilgrims visited the Church of the New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia at the Butovo site, built in 2007. On the walls of the lower church, in an annual circle, there are icons of the glorified saints killed in Butovo, and the vaults of the upper church are decorated with frescoes describing the tragic pages of the history of our country.
At the worship cross, the dean of the Zvenigorod deanery district, priest Nikolai Kurenkov, and parishioners performed a prayer service for the Butovo new martyrs.
At the end of the excursion, after visiting the worship cross, the pilgrims were treated to delicious field porridge and tea.
Memorial Scientific and Educational Center "Butovo", - Butovo training ground, former special zone of the NKVD-FSB "Butovo", where in 1937-1938. More than 20 thousand people were shot and buried, of whom about a thousand suffered as confessors of the Orthodox faith, and more than three hundred people were glorified by the Russian Orthodox Church as saints, including Hieromartyr Nikolai Rozanov (Zvenigorodsky), the last rector of the Ascension and Alexander Nevsky churches in Zvenigorod, who was shot in 1938.
