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Default Re: America To Return Russian Church Bells After Almost 80 Years VIDEO

An interesting video from 2007:

September 13, 2007

Danilov `singing icon` blessed

The first of the 18 bells of the Danilov Monastery in Moscow is back home. Patriarch Aleksy II has blessed the bell in front of hundreds of Orthodox Christians and non-believers who turned up to witness the historic event.
For more than seventy years the bells have been at Harvard University in the U.S. They were brought from Russia in the 1930s by the wealthy U.S. philanthropist Charles Crane, who bought them in the Soviet Union in the time of the religious purges.

The Danilov bells are actually one of the few sets of bells which survived the Stalinist era.



The Danilov Monastery's bell



Patriarch Aleksy II performing the solemn ceremony


RussiaToday : News : Danilov `singing icon` blessed

VIDEO - RussiaToday : News : Danilov `singing icon` blessed
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