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Miniature of mid-16th century Illustrated Chronicle

Miniature of the Illustrated Chronicle compiled for Ivan the Terrible. Mid 16th century. Prince Dmitry Ivanovich came to the Trinity Lavra to seek blessing from St. Sergius of Radonezh for a battle with Mamai. Abbot Sergius of Radonezh begged Prince Dmitry Donskoy to eat bread with him. "May the Lord God and the most holy Theotokos help you! The time has not yet come for you to put on the crown of death with eternal sleep, but countless others have crowns with eternal memory prepared for them." From the collection of the Library of the Soviet Academy of Sciences in Leningrad.

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Celebrations in Etchmiadzin on occasion of myrrh consecration

Armenian SSR. Celebrations in the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin, the center of the Armenian Apostolic Church, on the occasion of the consecration of myrrh, chrismation - a ritual holiday held every seven years - and the 75th anniversary of the Catholicos - Patriarch of All Armenians Vazgen I (Palchyan Levon Karapet Abramovich). For his contribution to the strengthening of peace, the Catholicos was awarded by the Soviet government the Orders of the Badge of Honor and Friendship of Peoples.

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