Ukraine Offers Relics of Saint Theodora of Sihla in Exchange for Ivan Mazepa and Pylyp Orlyk

Publication date: 19.10.2023 19:01

Yes. Theodora of the Sihla. Photo: Doxologia.ro

Ukraine is willing to offer Romanians the relics of Saint Theodora of Sihla, in exchange for the remains of national heroes Ivan Mazepa and Pylyp Orlyk, claims the press agency Basilica of the Romanian Patriarchate, citing the joint statement of the prime ministers of the two countries, issued on Wednesday, following the visit to Marcel Ciolacu in Kiev.

The joint statement issued following the joint meeting of the governments of Ukraine and Romania, held on Wednesday in Kyiv, stipulates that the two prime ministers noted “the importance of the works related to the organization of the search for the relics of Saint Theodora in Ukraine and the graves of the hetmans Pylyp Orlyk and Ivan Mazepa in Romania ”, the Basilica agency shows in a announcement posted on the website.

Joint statement was published on the Kyiv government website.

Saint Theodora of Sihla (August 7) ​​lived during the reign of Vasile Lupu, according to Basilica.ro.

“After passing to the Lord, his body remained in the cave where he had spent most of his hermitage, but during the Russian occupation of the Romanian Principalities, it was taken to the Lavra Pecerska monastic complex in Kiev,” writes the cited source.

Efforts were also made to obtain these relics in 1992, at the canonization of Pious Teodora, but without success.

Ivan Mazepa was a hetman of the Zaporozhian Cossacks in Ukraine, between 1687 and 1709, a national hero in Ukraine, an opponent of the Russians, considered the father of the idea of ​​Ukrainian independence. He was buried in the Church of St. George in the city of Galati, but his grave disappeared in the context of the demolition of the church in 1962.

Pylyp Orlyk was “a legendary Cossack”, a senior member of the General Military Chancellery of hetman Ivan Mazepa, who died in 1742 in Iasi, according to Basilica.ro.

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2023-10-19 16:01:43
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