Archimandrite Ephraim, father superior of the Vatopedi monastery, carrying the ark with the Cincture of the Theotokos to the aircraft at Moscow's Vnukovo-3 airport.

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Archimandrite Ephraim (right), father superior of the Vatopedi Monastery, and Prosecutor-General of the Russian Federation Yury Chaika at the ark with the Cincture of the Theotokos during the seeing off ceremony at Moscow's Vnukovo-3 airport.

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Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia (cehnter) at the ark with the Cincture of the Theotokos during the seeing off ceremony at Moscow's Vnukovo-3 airport.

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Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia (center) performs a prayer service at the ceremony of seeing off the Cincture of the Theotokos at Moscow's Vnukovo-3 airport.

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(From left) Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin, Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia, Archimandrite Ephraim, father superior of the Vatopedi monastery, and Vladimir Yakunin, head of the Saint Andrew Foundation and the "Russian Railways" company, at the ceremony of seeing off the Cincture of the Theotokos at Moscow's Vnukovo airport.

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(From left) Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin and Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia at the ceremony of seeing off the Cincture of the Theotokos at Moscow's Vnukovo airport.

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