Metropolitan Alexander (Drabinko) with pilgrims sings a hymn of Ukraine on the peak of Athos (VIDEO)

A group of pilgrims of the Holy Transfiguration parish led by Metropolitan of Pereyaslav-Khmelnitsky and Vishnevsk Alexander (Drabinko) performed the Ukrainian hymn on the top of the Holy Mount Athos.

“The highest point of Orthodoxy – Holy Mount Athos. Glory to Ukraine!”, commented his video posted in Facebook head of the parochial council of the Transfiguration Cathedral Igor Lysov.


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