On the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, the annual Elisabeth religious procession took placetranslated

On September 27, the feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, the annual Elizabethan procession of the Cross took place. The event, which brought together thousands of believers, began with a solemn liturgy in the Church of the Savior Not Made by Hands in the village. Usovo, headed by Archbishop Thomas of Odintsovo and Krasnogorsk.

After the service, believers gathered at the Church of Elijah the Prophet in Ilyinsky for the 15th anniversary Elisabeth Religious Procession, also led by the Bishop.

Parishioners of the churches of the Istra district together with acting. O. dean priest Pavel Malkin, shoulder to shoulder, fervently praying, walked along with other Orthodox Christians along a unique historical route uniting the ancient villages of the only imperial estate in the Moscow region “Ilinskoye-Usovo”, along which more than a hundred years ago Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich and Grand Duchess Elisaveta Feodorovna followed from one church to another, crossing Moscow River.

This estate from 1864 to 1880 belonged to Empress Maria Alexandrovna, and after her death - to her son, Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich, and his wife, the holy Grand Duchess Elisabeth Feodorovna.

On the river bank, participants traditionally read an akathist to the holy martyr...