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Article: RUSSIA: NICHOLAS II CANONIZED.(Brief Article)
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- IPR Strategic Business Information Database
- Article date:
- August 20, 2000
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The Russian Orthodox Church's Council of Bishops voted unanimously on 14 August to canonize Tsar Nicholas II, Empress Aleksandra, Crown Prince Aleksei, and Grand Duchesses Olga, Tatyana, Maria, and Anastasia. According to the council's decision, "the last Russian Orthodox monarch and his family tried to carry out the commandments of the Gospels in their lives" and "underwent their incarceration with ...