Relics for the consecration of the Patriarchal Cathedral have been sealed with the blessing of UGCC Head
Friday, 16 August 2013, 18:13
With the blessing of His Beatitude Sviatoslav (Shevchuk), UGCC Head, the director of the Centre for the Beatification and Canonization of Saints of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church, Rev. Polikarp Nartseliuk, and the Secretary of His Beatitude Sviatoslav, Rev. Oleh Oleksa, sealed the relics of the saints for the altar of the Patriarchal Cathedral. The Rite of the Sealing of the Relics took place on August 15, 2013.
According to church regulations, the relics were placed in the four corners and the centre of the main altar during the consecration. Into the altar of the Patriarchal Cathedral of the Resurrection of Christ were placed the relics of Apostles Peter, Paul and Andrew the First-Called, Popes Clement of Rome and Martin, who perished on Ukrainian lands, the bishop-martyr Saint Josaphat, and Blessed priest martyrs of the 20th century Mykola Charnetsky and Josaphat Kotsylovsky.
Fr Polikarp relates that the relics for the Cathedral were found in the box of relics for sealing onto icons under a sealed wax stamp, as proof of authenticity. The reliquaries were opened and the relics divided into parchment envelops, prepared especially for this purpose by the Centre for the Postulation of Causes for the Beatification and Canonization of Saints of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church.
These parchment envelopes were then sealed and validated under the seal of His Beatitude Sviatoslav.
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| Patriarch Sviatoslav processes with the relics into the Sobor on the eve of its consecration. |
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