On Sunday, January 17, supporters of ex-Schema monk Sergius (Nikolai Romanov) held a prayer service in Yekaterinburg near the Church on the Blood. In several other cities, a prayer service was also held in support of the disgraced father Sergius. In Yekaterinburg, police asked worshipers to disperse, calling the prayer "an uncoordinated mass event." The conflict was avoided, since the supporters of Sergius completed the prayer, standing some distance from each other, and then dispersed.
Photo: public "Sredneuralsky nunnery (pilgrims)" VKontakte
“How my heart hurts,” wrote the participants of the “prayer stands” near the Temple-on-the-Blood in the public “Abode of Faith and Love”. - A man in black and in a muzzle ran up to us and behaved rudely, pushing, filming, shouting that this was their territory and we were not allowed to pray here. They drove the police, as if on bows. The police explained our rights to us”.
Photo: public "Sredneuralsky nunnery (pilgrims)" VKontakte
"Prayer standings" of the ex-schema-abbot's supporters were also held in Nizhny Tagil, Moscow, Nevtyansk, Rostov-on-Don, Chelyabinsk, Magnitogorsk, Omsk, Birsk.
IA "Ural Meridian" reported that the monastery, seized by ex-schema-abbot Sergius, excommunicated from the church, was taken by the security forces by storm and sent under arrest in Moscow, where they were charged under three articles.
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