Dear friends! I sincerely congratulate you on the Day of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God, the Victory Day of the Militia of Minin and the Prince. Pozharsky on the invaders, Happy National Unity Day! In this regard, I would like to support the excellent initiative of the People's Council movement, many other organizations and ordinary Orthodox people regarding the church canonization of the great ascetics - Minin and Prince. Pozharsky. The "People's Council" referred to the hierarchy of the Russian Orthodox Church in this respectful request, noting, in particular, the following arguments: "First, as the leaders of the Zemstvo popular movement, Kuzma Minin and Prince Dmitry Mikhailovich Pozharsky played an outstanding role in liberating the Russian land from the invaders, whose presence in the heart of Russia threatened to establish the rule of heterodoxy in our country, And the persecution of the increasingly ultra-orthodox church cannot be compared to the Russian religion. Alexander Nevsky, glorified by the Church and Dmitry Donskoi and Dmitry Pozharsky worked for the victory of Orthodoxy, stood in poverty, refused wealth, overcame difficulties and hardships, and risked their lives. Secondly, all these actions were done by them with the name of God on their lips, while praying and being aware of the duty of the believers. The godliness of their mission stems from the fact that the creation of the Zemstvo militia and its military work were carried out at the call of the Holy Patriarch Hermogenes, the blessing and prayerful support of the venerable Irinarch, with whose personal copper cross Minin and Pozharsky arrived in Moscow in victory. Their campaign was accompanied by visions of saints, signs, help and prayerful support from monasteries. During the campaign against Moscow in 1612, the Zemstvo militia was accompanied by the image of the miraculous icon of the Mother of God from Kazan. And the day on which the last military clash with the enemy took place (the capture of Kitai-Gorod) subsequently became a holiday named after this icon, which today became a public holiday.

Dear friends! I sincerely congratulate you on the Day of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God, the Victory Day of the Militia of Minin and the Prince. Pozharsky on the invaders, Happy National Unity Day! In this regard, I would like to support the excellent initiative of the People's Council movement, many other organizations and ordinary Orthodox people regarding the church canonization of the great ascetics - Minin and Prince. Pozharsky. The "People's Council" referred to the hierarchy of the Russian Orthodox Church in this respectful request, noting, in particular, the following arguments: "First, as the leaders of the Zemstvo popular movement, Kuzma Minin and Prince Dmitry Mikhailovich Pozharsky played an outstanding role in liberating the Russian land from the invaders, whose presence in the heart of Russia threatened to establish the rule of heterodoxy in our country, And the persecution of the increasingly ultra-orthodox church cannot be compared to the Russian religion. Alexander Nevsky, glorified by the Church and Dmitry Donskoi and Dmitry Pozharsky worked for the victory of Orthodoxy, stood in poverty, refused wealth, overcame difficulties and hardships, and risked their lives. Secondly, all these actions were done by them with the name of God on their lips, while praying and being aware of the duty of the believers. The godliness of their mission stems from the fact that the creation of the Zemstvo militia and its military work were carried out at the call of the Holy Patriarch Hermogenes, the blessing and prayerful support of the venerable Irinarch, with whose personal copper cross Minin and Pozharsky arrived in Moscow in victory. Their campaign was accompanied by visions of saints, signs, help and prayerful support from monasteries. During the campaign against Moscow in 1612, the Zemstvo militia was accompanied by the image of the miraculous icon of the Mother of God from Kazan. And the day on which the last military clash with the enemy took place (the capture of Kitai-Gorod) subsequently became a holiday named after this icon, which today became a public holiday.