An icon with the relics of St. Sergius of Radonezh will arrive in Vitebsk and Polotsk

An icon with the relics of Saint Sergius of Radonezh will arrive at the Vitebsk diocese of the Belarusian Orthodox Church.

From July 25 to 30, the icon will be in Vitebsk, and from July 30 to August 3 - in Polotsk. From July 20, believers will be able to venerate the icon at the Holy Spirit Cathedral in Minsk. Earlier, the icon visited Gomel.

This revered icon will be brought to Belarus as part of the celebrations held on the occasion of the 700th anniversary of the birth of Saint Sergius of Radonezh. The icon of the Reverend is a copy of the icon located in the Trinity Cathedral of the Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius in Sergiev Posad (Russia). A particle of the saint's relics is embedded in the icon.

For reference

Sergius of Radonezh (in the world Bartholomew; May 3, 1314 (estimated date) - September 25, 1392) is a monk, founder of the Trinity Monastery near Moscow (now the Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius), a reformer of monasticism. Sergius of Radonezh is venerated by the Church in the face of saints as a Reverend and is considered the greatest ascetic.