The latest trials

Nicholas Zharkikh

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After the end of the trials with the shrine of 1817, the cult of Saints Michael and Theodore continued to enrich little by little.

Information about temples named after Michael and Fedor built in 19 – early 20th century collected by A. Preobrazhensky.

All the facts of the trials (or, what is the same, church veneration) of Michael and Fedor concerned exclusively the territory of Great Russia. No cult of these saints existed in Ukraine until 1691.

The church in Chernihiv was and remains the only church in Ukraine in the name of Michael and Fedor. Therefore, even now this cult is not popular in Ukraine, remaining mainly Moscow (Great-Russian).