On May 30, 2024, the National Medical Research Center for High Medical Technologies — A.A. Vishnevsky Central Military Clinical Hospital of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation in Krasnogorsk near Moscow opened a library named after Sts. Cyril and Methodius and launched a cultural and educational project «Days of St. Luke» dedicated to St. Luke (Voyno-Yasenetsky).
The events were organized on the initiative of the St. Spyridon Trimiphuntsky Center for Cultural Cooperation.
The events are organized on the initiative of the Center for Cultural Cooperation named after St. Spiridon of Trimiphunt, the creation of the library at the Central Military Clinical Hospital named after A.A. Vishnevsky was blessed and supported by His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia.
The events are organized on the initiative of the Center for Cultural Cooperation named after St. Spiridon of Trimiphunt.
The opening ceremony was attended by Archpriest Dionisy Kazantsev, Secretary of His Holiness the Patriarch for Moscow Region, Archpriest Dionisy Kazantsev, the clergyman of Patriarchal Cathedral in honor of the Resurrection of Christ — the main church of the Russian Armed Forces, Archpriest Alexander Soldatenkov, head of the National Memorial Complex — the church-monument in honor of All Saints and in memory of the victims who served to save our Fatherland in Minsk, chairman of the Synodal Department of the Belarusian Archpriest Feodor Povny, chairman of the Imperial Orthodox Palestinian Society, Sergey Stepashin, chairman of the Orthodox Humanitarian Mission, chairman of the Center of St. Spyridon of Trimiphunt Pavel Karpukhin, head of the Central Military Clinical Hospital named after A.A. Vishnevsky of the Russian Ministry of Defense Alexander Yesipov, chairman of the Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs «Ivolga» Alfiya Petrukhina, pilot-cosmonaut-cum-entrepreneur of the Russian Ministry of Defense. Alexander Yesipov, head of the Central Military Clinical Hospital named after A.A. Vishnevsky of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation; Alfiya Petrukhina, chairman of the Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs «Ivolga» and Elena Serova, pilot-cosmonaut Hero of the Russian Federation.
A prayer service for the health of the defenders of the Fatherland was held in the Church of St. Luke at the A.A. Vishnevsky Military Hospital. After the prayer service, all those present were able to lay their hands on the icon of St. Luke of Crimea with a part of his holy relics.
Before the participants of the ceremony performed a festive choir of the Church of the Savior of Nerukotvorny in the village of Usovo, Moscow region. They sang the troparion to St. Cyril and Methodius, the troparion to St. Luke of Crimea and the spiritual verse «Russia is called holy».
The central place in the library named after Saints Cyril and Methodius will be occupied by the Collected Works of His Holiness Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia
The new library will have Russian and world literary classics available for the hospital's patients and medical staff.
The new library will offer the hospital's patients and medical staff works of Russian and world literary classics, spiritual, educational and historical literature.
The new library will be available for the hospital's patients and medical staff.
On the same day, a cultural and educational project «Days of St. Luke» opened at the Vishnevsky Hospital. The project presents photographic portraits and drawings created by St. Luke (Voyno-Yasenetsky), copies of his personal belongings and an exposition devoted to the saint's biography.
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The general partner of the project «Days of St. Luke» in Vishnevsky Hospital was the Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs «Ivolga».
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