The Relics of SS Elizaveta and Varvara are Returned to the Holy Land
(a photo-report)

From the Editors: We offer the readers of the official site of the Synod of Bishops the following photographs made by members of the Fund of St Andrew the First-called (www.fap.ru):

February 21, 2005: Moscow greets the relics at the Church of Christ the Savior.

February 28: The solemn procession to the Holy Land of the relics of Holy Martyrs Elizaveta Feodorovna and Nun Varvara. Archbishop Arseny of Istra and Bishop Michael of Boston take the large reliquary containing the right hand of St Elizaveta out of the Church of Christ the Savior.

Vnukovo-3 Aiport. Bishop Michael of Boston and member of the Fund of St Andrew the First-called, Aleksei Parshintsev going through customs.Jerusalem. The residence of the Patriarch of Jerusalem. A member of the Administration of the Fund of St Andrew the First-called, SE Shcheblygin, presents gifts to His Holiness Patriarch Eirineios of Jerusalem.

Jerusalem. The Church of St Mary Magdalene, Equal-to-the-Apostles in Gethsemane. Bishop Michael of Boston conducts a moleben to SS Elizaveta and Varvara.