The holy relics of Saint Petronius the Prodromite and Saint Dionysius of Vatopedi will be preserved on Mount Athos in gilded silver reliquaries donated by the Romanian Patriarchate.
The reliquaries will be delivered to the Cell of Saint George at Colciu and to the Romanian Skete of the Honourable Forerunner (Prodromos Skete) by Athonite monks invited to attend the consecration of the National Cathedral’s mosaic icons, announced His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel on Saturday during the meeting of the Holy Synod of the Romanian Orthodox Church.
Patriarch Daniel explained that the reliquaries “will be blessed after the consecration of the National Cathedral’s iconography and symbolically offered to His Holiness the Ecumenical Patriarch, who will then present them to the two Athonite monasteries where Romanian monks live.”
