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“No miracles coming from the so-called ‘Yekaterinburg remains’ for nine years”
“The Russian Orthodox Church’s attitude to the so-called ‘Yekaterinburg remains’ the state commission ascribed to the executed Nicholas II and his family has remained the same since 1998, Archbishop Constantine of Tikhvin, vicar of St. Petersburg diocese, has stated.
‘Nobody has prayed at these remains. Nor is there any evidence that any miracle happened through prayers at them. Miracles? - Nothing of the kind’, Archbishop Constantine said speaking on the Soyuz (Union) Orthodox TV channel in Yekaterinburg.
He also said there were more ordinary people praying at the burial place of the murdered Emperor Paul I at Sts Peter and Paul Cathedral.
‘Whereas at these, so-called ‘burial places of the royal family’ there are no prayer services, nor personal veneration nor personal compassion of ordinary people - nothing’, the archbishop stressed.
The remains of a family of several members were discovered in 1991 at the Old Koptyakovsky Road near Yekaterinburg. The state commission concluded the remains belonged to the family of Emperor Nicholas II.
‘The Yekaterinburg remains’ were buried on July 17, 1998, at the royal burial-vault in Sts Peter and Paul’s Cathedral in Petersburg in the presence of numerous state officials and Romanov descendants. However, Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow and All Russia did not take part in the ceremony because the Church doubted the authenticity of the ‘Yekaterinburg remains’.”
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