Forty convicts are baptized in Saratov reformatory № 33

Forty convicts have been baptized in Saratov reformatory № 33 for half a year. One of the newly baptized said he had been a Satanist. The oldest of them is sixty, the youngest one is yet to celebrate his twentieth birthday.

Conversation with the priests takes place in the prison Church of St. Xenia of St. Petersburg weekly after the Divine Liturgy. Rector of the Church Rev. Sergei Vygodin conveys charitable gifts from the parishioners of the Saratov Cathedral of the Holy Spirit once a month. Clothes, food and items of hygiene are necessary for those who do not have relatives and friends.

Administration of Colony OTB-1 for tuberculosis and the HIV-infected rendered new, more spacious room for the already working Church of St. Nicholas. Its Rector Hegumen Manuil (Ilushin) conducted a prayer service for the beginning of every good undertaking. The church will be repaired and furnished on the donations.

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