http://www.pravoslavie.ru/cgi-bin/print.cgi?item=2r040909173121http://portal-credo.ru/site/print.php?act=news&id=26594Former hostage is baptized
Moscow, September 9, 2004
A former hostage seized in the Beslan school, 11 year old Alan
Eisiev, and his mother Elvira were baptized at the Speransky
Children's Clinical Hospital, reports the press service of the
Stavropol diocese. Alan, brought to the hospital with severe burns,
has already undergone surgery.
From the moment the victims of the act of terrorism in Beslan were
brought to Moscow, Orthodox parish priests have been visiting them,
bringing consolation to hospital rooms. The opportunity to interact
with small patients who are in grave condition is complicated by the
need to have parental permission to enter intensive care units. But
not all daddies and mommies could come to Moscow. However, priests
managed to reach agreement with the hospital administration to visit
the former hostages.
Priest Mikhail Maleyev, priest in charge of the Protection of the
Theotokos Church in Bratsevo, visited the terrorists' victims in the
Tushinsk hospital. At the Sklifovsky Research Institute, Priest
Vasily Sekachev of the institute's chapel, also came with words of
consolation.
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