☦️ On August 20, President of Russia Vladimir Putin visited the Archangel Cathedral of the Moscow Kremlin, where the relics of Holy Right-Believing Grand Prince Dmitry Donskoy had recently been uncovered.

The President viewed the burial site and attended a prayer service.

The relics were uncovered in July during restoration work prompted by subsidence of the cathedral floor slabs and the resulting risk of damage to the tombs of the Russian grand princes.

The archaeological work was carried out with the blessing of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia. The remains of Dmitry Donskoy were found to be almost completely preserved.

🙏 Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church blessed the placement of three fragments of the relics in three reliquaries for veneration by the faithful.

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⚔️ Holy Right-Believing Grand Prince Dmitry Donskoy (1350–1389) was Grand Prince of Moscow and Vladimir, one of the key figures in the consolidation of the Russian lands around Moscow. In 1380, he led the united Russian forces to victory over Mamai’s Golden Horde army in the Battle of Kulikovo – a landmark event in Russian history.

Dmitry Donskoy was canonized by the Russian Orthodox Church in 1988 as a Holy Right-Believing Prince in recognition of his outstanding service to the Church and the people, as well as his deeply devout life, which embodied the Christian ideal of self-sacrifice for the good and salvation of others.