Andria Jagmaidze: Another wave is starting against the Church - the image of Stalin on the icon does not mean that Stalin is the object of prayer, because a negative character can also appear on the icon

Another wave is starting against the Church, they will try to undermine the Georgian Church, - the head of the public relations service of the Patriarchate, archpriest Andria Jagmaidze writes about this on the social network.

Jagmaidze once again makes an explanation regarding the icon placed in the Trinity Cathedral, on which Stalin is depicted together with the Holy Matrona.

As the archpriest writes, the image of Stalin on the icon does not mean that Stalin is the object of prayer, because a negative character can also appear on the icon.

"I think that another wave is starting against the Church, they will try to undermine the Georgian Church.

The Patriarchate implemented 200 projects this year, which were related to Georgian martyrs and persons displaced during the communist period. None of them was covered by the TV stations that tried to cover the Christmas holiday with a fabricated scandal. Let's take a look and see who repeats the Bolshevik way? Let's remember any Church holiday, when have they covered properly, without scandal?

The first question is, why did they break out such a story on Christmas Eve? Why did they save this topic for today? They deprived people of their joy, and isn't this more evil than allowing Stalin to be depicted on the icon? They have done such a thing many times in recent years, when they were inventing a scandal on a holiday. This is already a kind of technology.

I will add only one thing, the story of Stalin's visit to Matrona is, in my opinion, more of a myth than reality. His biography mentions this. In my personal opinion, since the life of a saint should be connected with his merits, such merits can hardly be identified in the case of Matrona, although many believers, not only in Russia, pray to her.

Apart from what the biography conveys, there are many sayings that make it difficult to judge her merits, not only in my opinion. So there are different opinions.

Regarding the depiction of Stalin on the icon, first of all, it should be said that this does not mean that Stalin is the object of prayer, because a negative character can also appear on the icon, for example Diocletian, although the content is different here, Stalin is not in a negative context on this icon. I want to say that this is not an icon of Stalin, and Stalin is not here a person to whom someone prays.

In total, for these two days, their listeners are thinking about Stalin, and believers are thinking about the miraculous incarnation of Jesus Christ and the beginning of the salvation of mankind. You choose whose news is better. Merry Christmas!", wrote Andria Jagmaidze.

For information, information regarding the icon of the Holy Matrona in the Trinity Cathedral, on which Joseph Stalin is depicted, was spread on social networks on January 6.