Holy Relics that rest in our church
On this page, will list the saints whose Holy Relics rest, or once reasted in our church.
Through the prayers of your Holy Saints, Lord Jesus Christ our God, Have mercy upon us and save us!
About Holy Relics:
The Holy Relics are the miracle-working bones, clothing, or objects, of certain saints. We honor them as objects in which God Himself manifests all the miraculous power of His Grace. As long as the saints were on earth, they had the Grace of the Holy Spirit in abundance and by this Grace they not infrequently worked miracles.
This Grace also lives in their souls in heaven where they now dwell. As the saint remains close to the people who call upon him to help them by means of a miracle, so much the more does he himself maintain an especial tie with his body, which is also a habitation of the Holy Spirit, as the Apostles says: “Do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you and which you have from God, and that you are not your own” (1 Cor. 6:19).Holy Scripture speaks to us concerning the miracle-workings of the saints during the period of their life on earth, that they bore witness to the power dwelling within them. Many people were healed only by touching the Apostle Paul’s body with a handkerchief (Acts19:12) while others were healed only by being under the shadow of the Apostle Peter when he passed by (Acts 5:15).
– Elder Cleopas of Romania +1998
In the reliquary pictured above, are resting the holy relics of:
Top row,
- Venerable Alexis the Man of God – (March 17)
- Basil the Blessed – (August 2)
- Venerable Nicon (November 26)
- Bishop Ignasius of Rostov – (May 28)
- Ignasius of caves – (December 20)
- Diomidus – Doctor (?)
- Efrosinia Abbes of Polotsk – (May 23)
Center row,https://churchmotherofgod.org/articles/euphrosyne-abbess-of-polotsk/
- Isaac Self Prisoner of Caves – (February 14)
- Venerable Amfelogius of Pochaev (?)
- Theodor Taciturn of Caves – (August 28)
- Hieromartyr Metropolitan Vladimir of Kiev – (Sunday closest to January 25)
- Venerable Nicon of the Caves (March 23)
- Agapidus Healer Of Kiev Caves – (March 31)
- Kuksha of Odessa (September 16)
Bottom row,
- Venerable Nestor the Chronicler of the Kiev Near Caves (September 28 and October 27)
- George Self Prisoner of Zadonsk – (May 25)
- Venerable Nicola Sviatosha of Chernigov – (October 14)
- Philaret Metropolitan of Kiev and Galizia – ( November 19)
- Alexander of Constantinople – (August 30)
- John Sufferer of Caves (September 28 and July 18)
- Alepius Iconographer of Caves – (August 17)
In addition to the reliquary,
- Relics of our venerable father, Herman of Alaska, are sewn into the Antimins used on the Altar table of our church. (August 9 and December 13)
- Relics of Hieromartyr Metropolitan Vladimir of Kiev still rest in an Icon, in the vestibule of our Church – (Sunday closest to January 25)
(feast dates are listed also)