Sacred Voyage Launches in Vladivostok

VLADIVOSTOK. June 21. VOSTOK-MEDIA – A prayer will be delivered at the Seven Feet yacht club, following which a yacht with three priests of Vladivostok Eparchy on board will embark on a voyage, a spokesman for Vladivostok Eparchy told Vostok-Media.

The yacht will be joined by two other yachts with representatives of Sakhalin Eparchy on board off the Sakhalin coast.

The voyage is a cultural and historical event, which was organized by the education center ‘Blessed Far East’ with the blessing of Archbishop Veniamin of Vladivostok and Primorsky Krai and Archbishop Daniil of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk and the Kurils.

The participants in the event are carrying a handwritten copy of the Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos "The Unfading Flower" to Sakhalin, in memory of the icon which was lost in the ‘20s.