Photos of the Day for August 7, 2015

Father Georgij Sapun (1924), Pachapava 2015.

At the close of World War II the Soviet authorities sent Georgij Sapun to the GULAG.  When he returned and graduated from seminary, he spent fifty years ministering to his parishes of Pachapava and Vjalikaja Svarotva from a small, decrepit cemetery chapel while raising enough money to rebuild the chapel and restore both churches, which communist partisans has destroyed during the war.  Without appreciable help from the diocese, Father Georgij managed to have both churches immaculately restored.  He served in the restored Pachapava church from 2004 and the restored Vjalikaja Svarotva church from 2009.

Айцец Георгій Сапун (1924), Пачапава 2015 г.  Гл. таксама http://nn.by/?c=ar&i=147787

Churches of Belarus (part CIII):  Orthodox church of the Intercession of the Holy Mother of God (Pakrou), built in 1867 and restored in 2005-2006, Pachapava 2015.  Цэрквы Беларусі (частка CIII):  царква Покрава Прасьвятой Багародзіцы (1867), Пачапава 2015 г.

 

Memorial to the more than 800 victims of political repression from Baranavichy and Baranavichy District in the period 1939-1950s and 15 sons of the district who lost their lives in the Soviet war in Afghanistan.

 

Churches of Belarus (part CIV):  Orthodox church of the Holy Trinity (built as a Greek Catholic church in 1823, rebuilt from ruins 2006-2009), Vjalikaja Svarotva 2015.  Цэрквы Беларусі (частка CIV):  цэрква Сьвятой Тройцы (пабудавана як грэка-каталіцкая царква 1823; адрэстаўравана 2006-2009), Вялікая Сваротва 2015 г.

Holy Trinity in Vjalikaja Svarotva is an exceptionally rare example in Belarus of a triangular church.