Synodal act of canonization
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This article reproduces the official synodal act by which the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople proceeded, on January 16, 2004, to the canonization of five figures of the Russian emigration in France: Archpriest Alexis Medvedkov, priest Dimitri Klepinin, nun Maria Skobtsova, her son George Skobtsov, and Elijah Fondaminsky. A document of a liturgical and canonical nature, the act sets out the ecclesial criteria justifying the inscription of these personalities in the hagiology: holiness of life, edification of the faithful, martyrdom for some, and divine confirmation through miracles. It establishes their feast day on July 20. From a historical and theological standpoint, this text attests to the official recognition by the Orthodox Church of a Christian witness embodied in the context of the Russian diaspora and the Second World War, thereby consecrating a spiritual memory particular to Western Europe.
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