Cherkasy Eparchy shares a boy's letter to St Nicholas: Bring back my church

A young parishioner of the UOC has written to Saint Nicholas. Photo: Cherkasy Eparchy's press service

On the Feast Day of Saint Nicholas, the Cherkasy Eparchy's press service shared a letter from a young parishioner of the Mandylion Cathedral in Korsun-Shevchenkivskyi. In his letter, the boy asked Saint Nicholas to return their seized church.

"I want to go back to my church because I ring the bells there," the child wrote innocently, appealing to the saint on his feast day.

It is worth recalling that the cathedral in Korsun-Shevchenkivskyi was raided and seized during the night of May 31, 2024. "Something terrifying happened tonight – around midnight, a group of young men came, broke down all the gates and locks of the church. The noise was frightening, the horror indescribable. It was impossible to watch such atrocities. These people stepped beyond the bounds of human nature," said Archpriest Ioann.

He noted that the attackers broke into the church until 5 a.m., using sledgehammers on the metal doors and tearing off the grates.

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