Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia attends the funeral of Schema-Archimandrite Iliy, the spiritual father of him and of the monastery's brotherhood, at the Optina Pustyn monastery in Kaluga region, Russia. Elder Iliy (Alexei Nozdrin) died on March 15, 2025 at the age of 93.
- Categories: Religion & Belief, Human Interest
- Location: Kaluga region, Russia
- Event date: 18.03.2025
- Date published: 18.03.2025
- Author: Maksim Blinov
- Credit: Sputnik
- Source: Sputnik
- Original: Digital
- Media: JPEG, 8256x5504px, 20.7Mb
- Job-ID: c3e05c3ddeecf609