Bishop Longin: Exhibition of plastinates in Saratov is sneering at human remains

Exhibition of plastinates is opened in the ‘Pobeda’ cinema in Saratov. Plastinates are human bodies or parts of the bodies preserved in a special way. German scientist Gunther von Hagens invented the technique and journalists often call him ‘Doctor Death’. The guide says that Russian specialists made the Saratov exhibits according to Professor Hagens’ technology and the exhibition is a mobile exposition from St. Petersburg cabinet of curiosities. The entry is free for children under seven. Saratov is the first Russian city where the plastinates are displayed.

Bishop Longin of Saratov and Volsk made a statement concerning the exhibition.

‘A person becomes an exhibit after death, he is exposed to everyone and it is a terrible blasphemy, a sneer at God’s creation, a gibe at an incomprehensible sacrament of death’, the statement reads. ‘The exposition is even more blasphemous for the faithful of the Saratov Diocese as the ‘Pobeda’ cinema, where the exhibition is held, is built on the place of the Church of St. Mitrofan of Voronezh’.

Bishop Longin called upon the faithful and all people of common sense and good will to boycott the exposition so the lack of interest could make its organizers think it over.

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