Visitation of the Image of Jesus the Merciful (part V), Kamjen’ 2009. Візітацыя абразу Езуса Міласэрнага (частка V), Камень 2009 год.
The village of Kamjen’ (“Stone”), named after a giant boulder carried there during one of the Ice Ages, lies on the edge of the Nalibaki Wilderness (Nalibotskaja pushcha – Налібоцкая пушча) about 45 miles west of Mjensk. The inhabitants of Kamjen’ — like the inhabitants of other villages in the Nalibaki Wilderness — display a sense of rootedness, resilience in the face of what happened to their forefathers and to their church under both Soviets and Germans, and quiet pride in their parish.
In 1991 the inhabitants of Kamjen’ built their new church of the Apostles Peter and Paul with their own resources and hands to replace the XVII century wooden church which was burned in 1944.
Here the procession enters the church.
