Church relics hidden from the Soviet authorities were discovered at the Univ Lavra in the Lviv region
During restoration work at the Holy Dormition Univ Lavra in the Lviv region, a cache of church treasures was discovered that the monks had hidden before the arrival of Soviet authorities.
This was reported by Hieromonk Makariy Dutka of the Lavra.
According to him, rosaries were found in the metropolitan chambers in 1820, which had adorned the Univ Miraculous Icon until the 1940s.
Also hidden under the floor were several kilograms of coral from the Indian Ocean, nine antique candlesticks, gold rings, a monstrance, and several 19th-century church medallions.
According to the clergyman, the monks hid the relics to protect them from confiscation and destruction by the Soviet authorities.
Part of the found necklace has already been restored and returned to the antique icon, and a local restoration workshop has cleaned all the found silver-plated candlesticks.
We previously reported that the recent discovery of two skeletons, mutilated in the same manner, suggests that limb amputation was used as a punishment during the Eastern Zhou Dynasty in China, over 2,000 years ago.
We also recall that during excavations in the ancient city of Laodicea in the Turkish province of Denizli, which is included on UNESCO’s tentative list of World Heritage Sites, a statue of Asclepius, the god of medicine in Greek and Roman mythology, and the head of a statue of his daughter Hygieia were discovered.
