Ministry of Culture plans to “take stock" of relics of Kyiv Caves saints
Near Сaves. Photo: Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra website
The director of the Department of Cultural Heritage of the Ministry of Culture, the head of the commission for the transfer of objects of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra to the state, Mariana Tomin, stated that an "inventory" of the relics of the Kyiv-Pechersk saints will take place in the monastery caves, according to TSN.
Tomin announced that the commission's work will begin in two weeks. It will include military chaplains, archaeologists, and anthropologists.
"We also want to check everything related to the unburied remains of the saints," Mariana Tomin noted.
As reported by the UOJ, earlier the head of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra Reserve, Maksym Ostapenko, announced in a letter to the monastery that a commission would start working on February 27 for the "return of cultural values for registration", which are "actually located in the Near Caves".
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