Spiritual birth of the Motherland
Spiritual birth of the Motherland Tag cloud: Orthodox Church , Society , religion , Commentary , Russia Mikhail Aristov 27.07.2010, 16:10 On July 28th, Russians will for the first time celebrate the recently established Rus Baptism Day. On this day the Russian Orthodox Church also commemorates Saint Prince Vladimir of Kiev who baptized Russia and made Christianity its official religion. The new Russian holiday becomes a good reason for both thinking about our ancestors’ historic choice and considering our own life plan. This is precisely what happened more than a thousand years ago when Grand Prince Vladimir turned to studying basic religions of Europe and Western Asia. He invited wisemen from across the world to Kiev and then sent his own legates abroad to gather information on various confessions. Thus, he got a complete insight into the principal “types of world civilization”, as present-day geopolitical experts would put it. Prince Vladimir,...