UOC believers set out on procession from Kamianets-Podilskyi to Pochaiv

Alexander Nevsky Church. Photo: Pershyi Kozatskyi

On August 19, 2024, several thousand believers of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church gathered in the city of Kamianets-Podilskyi to begin the traditional pilgrimage to the Holy Dormition Pochaiv Lavra.

For more than 200 years, Orthodox Christians from all over Ukraine, as well as from other European countries and around the world, have traveled to Kamianets-Podilskyi to start their pilgrimage to the Holy Dormition Pochaiv Lavra.

The cross procession, covering a distance of over two hundred kilometers, lasts nearly a week, arriving at the Pochaiv Lavra shortly before the Feast of the Dormition of the Mother of God.

On the morning of August 19, on the Feast of the Transfiguration of the Lord, a Divine Liturgy was celebrated in the Cathedral of Saint Prince Alexander Nevsky in Kamianets-Podilskyi, during which many pilgrims received Holy Communion.

According to a correspondent from the Union of Orthodox Journalists (UOJ), approximately 3,000 people attended the prayer service in the Cathedral of Saint Prince Alexander Nevsky alone. Many other pilgrims also gathered in other churches across the city.

Earlier, the UOJ reported that, according to the Legal Department of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, the only way to prohibit the cross procession is through a court order.

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