The Relics of St. Seraphim of Sarov

On December 25, 1990, the relics of St. Seraphim were found in the State Museum of the History of Religion in Leningrad.

After the decision to return the Leningrad Kazan Cathedral, which housed the State Museum of the History of Religion, to the Church, the liberation of the storerooms began. They began to transfer icons, Gospels, and various liturgical objects to the churches. And then, in one of the storerooms, museum employees saw in the corner of the room where the tapestries were kept, a rectangular object the size of a man, covered with canvas. When they ripped open the canvas, they saw the complete skeleton of a man with a preserved beard, hair, and pieces of muscle tissue, who had on his hands light satin mittens with the embroidery “Reverend Father Seraphim” on one and “Pray to God for us” on the other.