MOSCOW: June 1, 2007
Metropolitan Laurus Awards the Benefactors of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia

On May 18, after a meeting of the benefactors of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia, His Eminence Metropolitan Laurus awarded three of them with the Silver Synodal Medal of the Kursk-Root Icon of the Sign: Pavel Vladimirovich Lisitsin, Stanislav Dmitrievich Kondrashov and Alexander Konstantinovich Karpov. His Emience personally thanked each of them for their significant help to the Church and invoked God's blessing upon them.