The transfer of the relics of the saints Cyprion, Photius and Jonah, the Kiev and all Russia miracle workers

In April 1472, during the reign of the Christ-loving great prince of all Russia, John Vasilievich, the Holy and Great Cathedral of the Assumption of the Blessed Mother of God was founded in the glorious city of Moscow.

And when they began to disassemble the first temple, which was built by St. Peter the Wonderworker [of course, St. Peter, who in 1325 moved from Vladimir to Moscow and at whose insistence the first stone church of the Assumption of the Mother of God was built by the Moscow prince John Kalita.] , and dismantled it to the floor, then at that time the coffins of former Russian saints, the most holy metropolitans of Kiana, Fotia and Ioprina were found.

After chanting the appropriate psalms, they first took the coffin of the Metropolitan of All Russia Cyprian and placed it in a prepared place in the newly founded temple in a special coffin on the right side, and then took the coffin of the Metropolitan of Photius and placed it in the same place. The sacred garments and omophores that were on the saints were incorrupt, despite the many years since their death, because after the death of the Metropolitan Cyprian 65 years passed without eighteen days, and after the death of the Metropolitan Folitus without thirty-four days 41 years.

At the same time, everyone saw that the holy relics of the saint were completely intact, only the body had dried to the bones, and the clothes he was wearing were also intact and untouched by decay, and meanwhile after his death he was 11 years and 2 months old. Taking the coffin of the saint, they placed it on the top of the earth on the left side of the temple.