In his letter to Patriach Alexy, Fr. Roman (Ithink I remember his name correctly - since reading the letter yesterday on the ROCOR website I can't seem to find it again) states that it was Metropolitan's will that his vestments be given over after his death. Does this seem strange to anyone? The fact that a hierach not knowing at the time of this supposed will that God would glorify him with incorrupt relics and miracles after his death, and that he would be considered a saint by the people, would consider that his vestments were something of great worth to the future Patriarch of a communist ridden Russia? Or have I read things incorrectly? Or have missed something?
MP Gets Spoils of War: St Philaret's Vestments + Crosier!
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In fact the whole matter was based on a letter of the deacon of the Holy Metropolitan Philaret, Protodeacon Nikita Chekiroff. But for telling the truth the letter didn't say that these vesments should be given to a KGB "Patriarch", head of an institution created by Stalin (that was what Met. Philaret thought about the MP) but the vesment should be given to the true Patriarch of the FREE Russian Orthodox Church, when the True Patriarchate of Russia and the Russian Ortodox Church would be restored after a All Russia Sobor. Just as it is indicated in the Ukaz Nº 362 of the Patriarch St. Tikhon.
Of course, I suppose that the New ROCOR knows everything the above-mentioned, it is just that they are tried to force the things doing them seem what they need to seem to reach their own objectives.