This revolution cannot be compared with any follow-up, said the Patriarch, because Baptism has drastically changed the lives of the people, their culture and value system. But the attempt to change the system of values during the recent terrible revolutions of the early twentieth century, now will cause only a condescending smile – it did not work. Why do I get the Prince Vladimir?
When secular historians hasten to explain the fact of baptism of Prince Vladimir of various political and ideological reasons and prerequisites – I wanted to enlist powerful allies, to enter into the cultural space of the Byzantine Empire – they are, in the opinion of the Patriarch, forgetting the image of the Prince, the former to baptism a staunch pagan. His soul was ruined dozens of lives and blood, according to the Patriarch, connects people with beliefs like nothing else, enough, again, remember their own and others history in the twentieth century.
Why has repented of Prince Vladimir? Why, not content with the glory of the great powerful ruler of Russia, wiped out his past and accepted Holy baptism? Everything was against the logic and customs of the time and nature of the Prince, but happened as a miracle, and led to the greatest change of life and baptized the Prince, and the whole country. And the second miracle was the baptism of them of your people. And again secular researchers of that era in a hurry to find a human explanation.
But suddenly cool to turn the whole social, political, public and personal life of the people was only possible with the great gracious gift of God, said the Patriarch. “And grace “heals the infirm, and is lacking heals”, and there where not enough, maybe abilities and understanding, and logic, and the power of the Prince of Vladimir, he was instructed and strengthened the power of grace. And so he almost without any use of force baptized his people,” – said the Patriarch.
Vaccination is the grace of the body of the Universal Church baptized the Russian people was the greatest spiritual force which, in the opinion of the Patriarch, has helped our people through difficult twists and turns of its historical path and keep the faith Prince Vladimir.
the event, said the Patriarch, has not lost its meaning and its power to this day. “We are all heirs of Prince Vladimir and his pupils”, – the Patriarch said, calling on the blessing to future historical path of Russia and movement of people along the way, selected more than a thousand years ago by Holy Prince Vladimir.
