MOSCOW, January 7. / TASS /. Russian President Vladimir Putin congratulated Orthodox Christians on Christmas, all Russian citizens, to celebrate this holiday, said the Kremlin press service.
The letter reads in part: “This bright and joyful holiday roads to millions of people. He draws us to the roots of our spiritual traditions, to the ideals of love and charity, which for centuries are the unity of the people, help to survive in times of hardship and difficulties “.
The president noted” an enormous and unique role in the approval high moral principles in society, proper upbringing of the younger generation, preserving our rich cultural and historical heritage play Russian Orthodox Church and other traditional Christian denominations. This is a big, very important work, worthy of the most sincere recognition “.
Chapter State wished all Orthodox Christians, all citizens of Russia celebrating Christmas, peace, happiness and prosperity.
On Christmas Eve Vladimir Putin attended a vigil in the Church of the Intercession of the Holy Virgin in the village Otradnoe Voronezh region.
Where Vladimir Putin meets Christmas
Putin, usually at Christmas outside of Moscow – in contrast to Easter, which he usually marks the Cathedral of Christ the Savior. In the last two years for the Christmas service at the church he came near Sochi – the temple of the Holy Face of Christ the Savior, built near the Olympic Park, and three-altar temple in honor of the Mother of God and Vladimir Peschanskaya in the Trinity-St George’s Monastery in the village of Forest Adler district.
Another year before Putin came to the festive service in the Transfiguration Cathedral of St. Petersburg, where he was baptized. The President also visited the Church of the Intercession in the Christmas of the Virgin in the village Turginovo Tver region, where in 1911 his parents were baptized in the Church of the Holy Martyrs Alexander and Antonina Roman village Selishche Kostroma Region, Candlemas Church in the village of Straw in Karelia, in Prokopyevsky Cathedral in Veliky Ustyug, in the New Jerusalem Monastery. In 2006, Putin met this holiday in one of the churches of Yakutsk, where at that time was 50 degrees below zero.
In the capital, the head of state to celebrate Christmas in 2001 – the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, and in 2000 when Putin, the then Acting President of the Russian Federation, visited the festive service in the church of the Holy Trinity Life-Giving on the Sparrow Hills.
Orthodox Christmas
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