The Holy Gifts of the Magi arrived in Moscow on Christmas Eve, according to the Julian Calendar, from Thessaloniki and already tens of thousands of worshipers flocked to see them (waiting in line for at least 9hrs). Since the fifteenth century the Holy Gifts of the Magi have never left Greece, and have been kept at the Sacred Monastery of Saint Paul at Mont Athos.
Thousands attended the Christmas Vigil at Christ the Savior Cathedral in Moscow, presided over by Patriarch Kyrill of Moscow and All Russia, and all venerated the Holy Gifts.
The relics will be open to the public in Moscow at Christ the Savior Cathedral from January 7 until January 13, and will then be displayed in the Resurrection Novodevichy Monastery of St. Petersburg.
They will later be moved to Minsk, being on display from January 18 until January 24. On January 25-30, the relics will be exhibited at the St. Sophia Cathedral of Kiev-Pechersk Lavra in Kiev, Ukraine. On June 30th the Holy Gifts will return to Mont Athos.
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