An exhibition in Vitebsk is dedicated to new martyrs and confessors
The exhibition "Light of the World" dedicated to new martyrs and confessors, natives of the Vitebsk region, will open today at the Church of the Transfiguration of the Lord, BELTA was informed by the Vitebsk Diocese of the Belarusian Orthodox Church.
The exhibition is organized with the assistance of the Department of Religious Education and Catechesis of the Vitebsk Diocese, as well as the Center for Orthodox Education of Saint Euphrosyne of Polotsk. The exposition will feature biographies and photographs of those who suffered for their faith in the 20th century. Among them are Hieromartyr Nicholas Okolovich, Confessor Vladimir Yelenevsky, Martyr Dmitry Vlasenkov, Hieromartyr Constantine Zhdanov, Archbishop Innocent (Yastrebov), the passion-bearers of Vitebsk - Theodore Grigorovich, Boris Byalynitsky-Birulya, and George Polonsky, who were shot in 1918 without being charged.
The exhibition "Light of the World" is organized in Vitebsk as part of the XI Easter Festival. The exposition will open at 16:00.