Паломники Великорецкого Крестного хода

На протяжении 600 лет, каждое 3-ье июня, православные паломники совершают Великорецкий Крестный ход, неся икону Святого Николая-Чудотворца. В течение пяти дней паломники проходят более 130 километров, совершая путь из села Великорецкое, где была найдена икона, в Вятку, и обратно. Вятка, Россия. 28 августа 2010. Готовая статья предоставляется по запросу. 1994-2014 Vyatka-Velikoretskoye For more than 600 years every 3rd of June thousands of orthodox pilgrims gather for the Religious procession in Velikoretskoye village. According to the legend, Nikolay Chudotvorets icon has been found in this very village and began to cure almost at once. Later, the icon was stored in Vyatka and, not to offend feelings of the believers, it had been decided to carry the icon every year with the procession to the place of its finding in Velikoretskoye village and then back to Vyatka. Within five days the pilgrims, praying and chanting walk about 130 kilometers. At the time of the Soviet Union the religious procession was officially forbidden, but pilgrims, hiding in woods from militia, made this way every year. From the early 1990s, after the fall of the Soviet Union, the ban was removed, and the quantity of pilgrims increased hundreds times. Now this is one of the most significant events in a religious life of Russia.