60 000 believers in Yekaterinburg honor the memory of the royal family in a cross procession

“Royal Cross Procession” was held in Yekaterinburg in the night of July 17, according to the press-service of local eparchy. On the anniversary of the murder of the holy royal family, a penitential procession from the place of killing to the place where the remains were concealed was attended by about 60,000 believers. At the end of the procession they prayed in a monastery in honor of the Holy Royal Passion-Bearers.

The procession began at 3 am by the local time. Believers marched along the route, which in 1918 members of the imperial family were carried along.

The religious procession along its entire length was accompanied by 25 mobile groups of the Orthodox service "Mercy". The volunteers gave out bottles of drinking water, and the nurses of the charity provided first aid to the participants in the procession, if necessary.

Members of the royal family, as well as Dr. Yevgeny Botkin and three servants, took a martyr's death on the night of July 17, 1918 in the house of engineer Ipatiev in Yekaterinburg.

In 2000, the Russian Orthodox Church sanctified Nicholas II, his wife Alexandra Feodorovna and their five children, and in February 2016 – Evgeniy Botkin.

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