Текст песни Радио ВЕРА. 28 декабря - Собор Крымских святых

According to legend, Christianity to Crimea brought the Apostle Andrei the First -Called in the first century. Then, Saint Clement, the Pope, the student of the apostle Peter and the satellite of the apostle Paul, preached here. This land has become a place of collision of civilizations. The nomads are pagans, Byzantines, Genoese Catholics, the Turkic population who professed Islam, Judea-Khazars: everyone fought for influence on the peninsula. The works of the Equal brothers Cyril and Methodius are associated with Crimea, Prince Vladimir once baptized here. They recall in the host of Crimean saints the Orthodox Queen-Monachine Theodore. She is the rules in the fourteenth century. The Genoese attacked her principality. Theodora had the opportunity to hide, but did not leave her people. Together with her squad, the queen died in a monastery on Mount Castel. Among the Crimean saints of the twentieth century there are many outstanding archpastors. Archbishop Demetrius, in the world - Prince David Ilyich Abashidze, from the beginning of the First World War served as a simple priest of the Black Sea squadron. He spent the last years of his life in the Kiev Pechersk Lavra and died there in a thousand nine hundred and forty-second year. The Cathedral of the Crimean saints includes St. Luke, the Archbishop of Simferopol and Crimean he was an outstanding bishop, a professor-surgeon, received a Stalin Prize and passed camps. His relics rest in the Holy Trinity Cathedral of Simferopol. According to prayers, miracles and healings occurred more than once.
All the Holy Crimean, pray God for us!