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Over 200,000 Believers Meet Mother of God’s Belt in Moscow

One of the most revered Christian shrines, the Belt of the Holy Mother of God has finally arrived at the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow. More than 200 thousand believers welcome the relict. The service was conducted by the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirill.

According to legend, the Mother of God wove the miraculous belt out of camel wool and wore it until the end of her Earthly days. At the time of her ascension, she passed the belt on to Thomas, the Apostle.

Currently, the relic belongs to the Vatopedi monastery on Mount Athos in Greece. The belt was brought to Russia on October 20 and has already been shown in St Petersburg, Yekaterinburg, Norilsk, Vladivostok, Ussuriysk, Krasnoyarsk, Tyumen, Nizhny Novgorod and Volgograd among others.

The queue in front of the Cathedral was so long that it took about 7 hours to get into it. 160 warmed buses were standing nearby so that people could get warm for a while, and 10 chow wagons were offering hot tea and porridge.

According to an announcement, 52 people have been transferred to hospital up until now and 384 people were needed to receive medical care after standing in a line in bad weather conditions to enter the Cathedral.

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