Believers are gathering for the solemn servicе

Believers are gathering for the solemn service on the Holy Apostle Andrey Pervozvany's relic of saint body to the Andrey Pervozvanny chapel in the historic Kiev's heart early Wednesday morning, on September 5, 2001. This service was the very first one in the chapel, where the works on painting and appearance are finished late days. The saint body was brought to Kiev by the Head of the Greek Orthodox Church His Beatitude the Archbishop of Athens and all of Greece, Christodoulos Paraskevaides in honour of 950th anniversary of Kiev-Pechersk Lavra. The home of saint body is the cathedral of Patrog-city (Greece), it will be return after the service in the chapel. On chroniclers remark, just the early (I-II A.D.) christian preacher Andrey Pervozvanny (First Called) set a saint-cross on Dnieper hill and foretold, that here "will be built city with a lot of churches" Photo by Alexander Sinitsa / UNIAN