Ostland Woche № 20809 (1944)

Newsreel №63200, 1 part, duration: 0:07:13, black-white
Production: UFA

Reel №1

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In Riga, the solemn burial of victims of Bolshevist atrocities - Lithuanian and Metropolitan Sergius Yurinskii.

The murder was committed while following the Metropolitan of Vilnius in Kaunas on the direct orders of Stalin.

There is a church funeral ceremony.

Being at one time very close to Patriarch Tikhon, Metropolitan repeatedly persecuted by the Bolsheviks.

More than 30 searches, arrest and expulsion 4 outside of Moscow - this is the thorny path of Metropolitan Sergius during his stay in Russia.

In 1941, after the death of Metropolitan Dionysius Lithuanian Archbishop Sergius and elevated to the rank of Metropolitan was appointed to the vacant chair of the Lithuanian and at the same time elevated to the rank of the Exarch of Latvia and Lithuania.

The life of Metropolitan Sergius was extremely fruitful.

They opened Russian Theological Seminary in Vilnius, established Orthodox mission.

Thanks to his tireless care of the church life in the liberated areas of Bolshevism took streamlined and organized.

Religious procession leaves the church, the coffin is carried on hands, put on the hearse, driven on the street.

A crowd of people came to the last journey of Metropolitan.

At the cemetery, the coffin lowered into the grave, people cry.

Memorial service, the military stands for.

A German officer with a wreath.

The wreath with the inscription Lord Exarch Metropolitan Sergius.

Documentary footage of Metropolitan Sergius.

He blesses the congregation in the church.

Speech by Metropolitan Sergius against Bolshevism.

At the end of a small repeat in Lithuanian.

Scenes from the Metropolitan Sergius.

Key words

Latvia, 1944, World War 2, funeral, religious rites

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