The Mikhailovsky Cathedral was consecrated a special icon with the soldiers ATO
The Ukrainian military got its own icon – the image of the blessed virgin Mary Ukrainian artist-painter Yuri Nikitin. The canvas depicts Ukrainian defenders and public figures from different generations, according to a story TSN.19:30.
There stands the Prince Vladimir the Great Hetman Ivan Mazepa, Cossacks, soldiers of the Ukrainian people’s Republic and the modern participants of the revolution of Dignity, the soldiers of the ATO, and above them is the virgin with the protective cover in the hands.
Videocracy the artist created an icon with the image of Ukrainian defenders and activists of different generations
TSN. 19:30
Yesterday, 20:59
The idea of creating shrines endorsed military chaplains, which in the Kyiv Patriarchate are more than five hundred. A new icon was unveiled and consecrated in St. Michael’s Cathedral in Kiev. Soon we were taking her to the ATO.
“This icon it is dedicated to the present. There are soldiers who are defending our country and who continue the traditions of Ukrainian knighthood,” explained the painter Nikitin. “It will become an icon like sailors Saint Nicholas, as this icon will be a real blessing for military chaplains and all military who fight for our independence,” said chaplain Andrew Brincat.