The stay of the relics of Blessed Matrona of Moscow in the Karaganda diocese has ended. More than 60 thousand people venerated the shrine

October 24, 2024. The stay of the relics of Blessed Matrona of Moscow in the Karaganda diocese has ended.

From September 28 to November 10, 2024, with the blessing of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Rus', the boundaries of the Kazakhstan Metropolitan District are visited by a great shrine - the relics and part of the robe of the blessed nun Matrona of Moscow, revered by millions of Orthodox believers around the world.

On October 21, the shrine was brought to the Trinity-Sebastian Cathedral, where the Head of the Metropolitan District, in concelebration with the Kazakhstani archpastors and clergy of the Alma-Ata and Karaganda dioceses, celebrated a prayer service.

At the numerous requests of the faithful, the hierarchy decided to extend the stay of the relics of the blessed nun Matrona of Moscow in the Shakhtyorsk capital until October 24.

The bringing of the revered shrine of Orthodoxy to Karaganda became a spiritual gift to the faithful for the 25th anniversary of the Astana and Alma-Ata diocese and the upcoming 15th anniversary of the approval of the canonical status of the Kazakhstan Metropolitan District.

In response to the petition of Metropolitan Alexander of Astana and Kazakhstan, His Holiness gave his Primate's blessing for the bringing of the relics of blessed Matrona to the diocesan centers for prayerful veneration and spiritual strengthening of the people of Kazakhstan. The shrine is accompanied on pilgrimage by Kazakhstan's archpastors and clergy along with Metropolitan Alexander.

Support for bringing the relic is provided by the public foundation "Apostol" (president - G.G. Sosnovsky).

More than 60 thousand people bowed to the relics of the saint of Christ.