Orthodox cross in Tskhinvali suburbs helped stop Georgian attack last year
Moscow, August 6,
Interfax – Rector of the Church of Our Lady’s Nativity in Tskhinvali Fr. Georgy
Dzhioyev told how an Orthodox cross helped stop the aggressor in one sector of
the battle during Georgian attacks against South Ossetia.
The cross was
consecrated a few days before the war unleashed and was set at the entry point
to the city, the Vesti TV channel has reported.
“When Georgians
tried to storm the city, they thrice came up to the cross and thrice turned
around. Advance detachments told in their radio talks that holy angels blocked
their way when they were coming up to the guard cross,” Fr. Georgy said.
It was not the only sign in the zone of Georgian-South Ossetian conflict that
helped stop Georgian militants.
“During the last events in South Ossetia, when the two armies stood off
against each other ready to contact battle, Georgians threw back their heads,
then turned around and ran from the field. They told that a woman silhouette
appeared in the sky above the church,” Co-chairman of the expert working group
on miraculous signs at the Theological Commission of the Russian Church
Academician Pavel Florensky said.
According to him, Russians thought it
was the Mother of God while Georgians believed it was St. Nina - the heavenly
protector of Georgia.
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