Sending the shrine with the relics of St. Nicholas from the crypt of Basilica di San Nicola in Bari to Russia. Left - Metropolitan Illarion, Head of the Moscow Patriarchate's External Church Relations Department; right - Archbishop of Bari Francesco Cacucci.

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Sending the shrine with the relics of St. Nicholas from the crypt of Basilica di San Nicola in Bari to Russia. Right - Prior of Basilica di San Nicola in Bari Ciro Capotosto.

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Sending the shrine with the relics of St. Nicholas from the crypt of Basilica di San Nicola in Bari to Russia.

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Carrying the shrine with the relics of St. Nicholas out of the crypt of Basilica di San Nicola in Bari. Second left - Metropolitan Illarion, Head of the Moscow Patriarchate's External Church Relations Department; center - Prior of Basilica di San Nicola in Bari Ciro Capotosto; right - Archbishop of Bari Francesco Cacucci.

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From left, center: Metropolitan Illarion, Head of the Moscow Patriarchate's External Church Relations Department, and Archbishop of Basilica di San Nicola in Bari Francesco Cacucci by the relics of St. Nicholas in Bari.

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From left, foreground: Metropolitan Illarion, Head of the Moscow Patriarchate's External Church Relations Department, and Archbishop of Bari Francesco Cacucci sign the agreement on temporary transfer of part the relics of St. Nicholas in Bari.

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From left: Metropolitan Illarion, Head of the Moscow Patriarchate's External Church Relations Department, and Prior of Basilica di San Nicola in Bari Ciro Capotosto by the relics of St. Nicholas in Bari.

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A shrine with the relics of St. Nicholas at the crypt of Basilica di San Nicola in Bari.

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Metropolitan Illarion, Head of the Moscow Patriarchate's External Church Relations Department, foreground right, during the service by the relics of St. Nicholas in the crypt of Basilica di San Nicola in Bari.

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Metropolitan Illarion, Head of the Moscow Patriarchate's External Church Relations Department, right, during the service by the relics of St. Nicholas in the crypt of Basilica di San Nicola in Bari.

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Metropolitan Illarion, Head of the Moscow Patriarchate's External Church Relations Department, center, during the service in the crypt of Basilica di San Nicola in Bari.

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Metropolitan Illarion, Head of the Moscow Patriarchate's External Church Relations Department, during the service by the relics of St. Nicholas in the crypt of Basilica di San Nicola in Bari.

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Metropolitan Illarion, Head of the Moscow Patriarchate's External Church Relations Department, during the service by the relics of St. Nicholas in the crypt of Basilica di San Nicola in Bari.

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The relics (the Saint's left rib) of St. Nicholas in the crypt of Basilica di San Nicola in Bari.

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Metropolitan Illarion, Head of the Moscow Patriarchate's External Church Relations Department, left, by the relics of St. Nicholas at the crypt of Basilica di San Nicola in Bari.

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From left, foreground: Metropolitan Illarion, Head of the Moscow Patriarchate's External Church Relations Department, and Archbishop of Basilica di San Nicola in Bari Francesco Cacucci sign the agreement on temporary transfer of part the relics of St. Nicholas in Bari.

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From left: Metropolitan Illarion, Head of the Moscow Patriarchate's External Church Relations Department, and Archbishop of Basilica di San Nicola in Bari Francesco Cacucci sign the agreement on temporary transfer of part the relics of St. Nicholas in Bari.

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From left: Metropolitan Illarion, Head of the Moscow Patriarchate's External Church Relations Department, and Archbishop of Basilica di San Nicola in Bari Francesco Cacucci sign the agreement on temporary transfer of part the relics of St. Nicholas in Bari.

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Clergymen by the relics of St. Nicholas from the crypt of Basilica di San Nicola in Bari.

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Metropolitan Illarion, Head of the Moscow Patriarchate's External Church Relations Department, during the service by the relics of St. Nicholas in the crypt of Basilica di San Nicola in Bari.

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A room containing the relics of St. Nicholas in the Pontifical Basilica di San Nicola, Bari.

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A shrine with the relics of St. Nicholas at the crypt of Basilica di San Nicola in Bari.

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