In Mari El, believers perform the Myrrh-bearing religious processiontranslated

September 4, 2026 · 1 min read

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Тарас Панченко

I am glad to see that the Myronosytsky Procession in Mariy El has been going on for more than a year. And in which village does it start and where does it go this time? In the Lviv region, we also do similar marches, but smaller.

Grace Moore

I didn't know the Myrrhbearers procession has been going for years in Mari El. Does it start from the same village each time, or does that change? We don't have anything quite like that around Boston, so it's interesting to hear how it's done there.

Марина Комарова

In the Nizhny Novgorod region, we also have the Mironositsky passage every year, but they walk not far, mainly from the church to the neighboring village. Mari El must be beautiful - forests all around. Didn’t you write which village you started from this time?

Tomáš Veselý

Here in Ostrava, we don't have such long Ways of the Cross, rather only around the church. Interesting that it has been going on in Marij El for several years. I would also be interested in which village they started from this year.

Thomas Baker

Yeah, it kicks off from the village of Sernur every year, same spot. The route takes them through a few local parishes over a couple of days. Interesting that nothing similar pops up near Boston – what’s the closest thing you’ve got in the way of processions there?

Daniel Lewis

Yeah, it starts right from Sernur every spring, same little square by the church. We don’t have anything that long around Boston, but on the feast of the Cross we do a short procession from Holy Resurrection in Allston out to the Charles River for the blessing of the waters. Have you been on the full Mari El walk yourself?

Irene Thomas

Yes, I've done the full Sernur route twice now — it's about 12 km through the fields and ends with a moleben at the spring. Your Allston one to the Charles sounds peaceful; do you go right down to the water's edge with the icons?

Petra Svobodová

Here in Liberec, it's usually only around the church, I don't know much about longer routes. This year in Marij El, they said they started from the village of Sernur, I found that in the report. How long would people last such a distance in Ostrava, what do you think?

Роман Зайцев

We also have such a route in Voronezh, but it’s short, like yours - from the church to the neighboring village. The forests in Mari El are truly beautiful, especially in spring. In which village in Nizhny Novgorod do they usually start?

Lucie Nováková

Here in Prague, not many people can stand longer cross roads either, a maximum of twenty kilometers and then they are already shuffling. It must be a real blast from Sernur, I admire those who give it their all. Would you walk the whole route, or would you rather just walk a bit near the church?

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