Celebration in honor of the transfer of the relics of the blessed Tsarevich Demetrius from Uglich to Moscow (16/06)

In 1582, Tsar John IV (Terrible) had a son —, the future holy noble prince Dimitri Uglichsky (Moscow). During the reign of Theodore Ioannovich, when the actual ruler of the Russian state was his brother-in-law — boyar Boris Godunov, Tsarevich Dimitri, together with his mother, Queen Maria Feodorovna, was removed from the Court to the city of Uglich.

Wanting to get rid of the legitimate heir to the Russian throne, Boris Godunov began to act against the prince as a personal enemy. At first he tried to slander the young heir to the throne by spreading false rumors about his imaginary illegitimate birth. Then he spread a new fiction that it was as if Demetrius had inherited the severity of his father’s Sovereign. Since these actions did not bring what he wanted, the insidious Boris decided to destroy the prince. The attempt to poison Demetrius was unsuccessful: the deadly potion did not harm the youth. Then the villains decided to commit an obvious crime.

On Saturday, May 28, 1591, while the boy was walking with the nurse in the yard, the murderers sent brutally stabbed the prince to death.

Tsarevich Demetrius was buried in Uglich, in the palace church in honor of the Transfiguration of the Lord. Many miracles and healings began to be performed at his tomb, and those with eyes were especially often healed.

The transfer of the holy relics of the blessed Tsarevich Demetrius from Uglich to Moscow took place on June 16, 1606.

The incentive for this was the desire, in the words of Tsar Vasily Shuisky, to block the eyes of the unbelievers and blind the eyes of the unbelievers with the verb, as the living is avoided (the prince) from the murderous days«, in view of the appearance of the impostor, who declared himself the true prince Dimitri. The holy relics were solemnly transferred and laid in the Archangel Cathedral of the Moscow Kremlin, « in the chapel of John the Baptist, like his father and brothers».

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