Patients of the Dnepropetrovsk hospital received material and spiritual assistance from the Patriarch Cyril

Several thousands of believers came to service in Dnipropetrovsk, which held the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, Kirill. Not all believers were able to get to the liturgy. Therefore, the program of the visit was scheduled hospital visit, where are those who are particularly in need of support and prayer.

Venue festive service on which the faithful hurried in the morning, was not chosen by chance. With the Transfiguration Cathedral in fact started the history of the city, formerly known as Yekaterinoslav. Catherine II laid the first stone church in 1787. Primate of the Orthodox Church Patriarch Cyril was the first in history, visited Dnipropetrovsk region.

Patriarch Cyril, the primate of the Orthodox Church: "Today we have gathered with you in so many thousands and thousands of people came, and I am glad of this opportunity with all of you to pray. Each of us after all the soul and joy and sorrow. I gaze at your face and I see kind eyes and happy faces. "

At the service under the open sky, headed by Patriarch Cyril, came more than five thousand residents. To all those who wished could attend the divine liturgy, the local authorities established in the park around the cathedral special screens. Liudmila Kondakova wanted to see the Patriarch Cyril of Dniepropetrovsk. But a few days before the visit of His Holiness the woman underwent a complicated operation. Ludmila and could not provide that the ROC would come to the ward.

Patriarch Cyril, the primate of the Orthodox Church: "I would like you to bring goodies - here fruktikov, you can eat - you have with the interior everything is normal, and every hand's blessing - that's my book, and the Holy Panteliymona when you can be well read."

Liudmila Kondakova, resident of Dnipropetrovsk: "Sensations, of course, non-transferrable. Because it happens once in a lifetime, and not everyone falls opportunity to see most of the Patriarch.

Primate of the Orthodox Church visited the temple, which is located in Central Dnepropetrovsk hospital named after Mechnikov. The Church came here 15 years ago by a doctor who does not once in his life faced situations where it was nothing depended. Helped only faith in God.

Vladimir Pavlov, the head doctor of the central hospitals of Dnipropetrovsk named after Mechnikov: "You know, there were different periods of religion, but any patient that you know everyone on their own, when it is in operation, willy-nilly, he crossed himself. And now this church, which have We exist, it helps both patients and physicians we. "

In a busy schedule of the Patriarch, who arrived in Kiev for 2 days, found time for many people - he gave a lecture to students, and gave new guidance of priests and even arrived at the legendary Yuzhmash. In the main shop of the company, which collect missiles and equipment for space vehicles, factory workers asked the Patriarch to bless Yuzhmash. Now this plant is going through hard times.

On the territory of the enterprise Patriarch consecrated the building and laid the first stones of the new Church of the Resurrection.

Wherever Patriarch Cyril already visited, it was greeted by thousands of believers. A lot of people to get the blessing of the Russian Orthodox Church, and took leave or got leave to go to work. Some Ukrainians are traveling around the country - after the Patriarch. Tonight, he went from Dnipropetrovsk to Kiev.