The speaker of the OCU “archbishop” Yevstratiy Zorya intends to sell the relics of St. Barbara from the Kyiv Church of the Life-Giving Spring in the USA. It is informed on the page “For the Ukrainian Church“, close to the Kyiv Patriarchate.

“Yevstratiy Zorya turned out to be a bigger trader and smuggler of shrines than we thought… As the entourage of the head of the OCU Epiphany Dumenko told us, Zorya even has a specific business plan for the Life-Giving Spring Church in Kyiv: Yevstratiy wants to sell the shrine to the Greeks – relics and the reliquary of the great martyr Barbara.

At one time, Filaret made a silver reliquary for the relics of the Great Martyr Barbara. And at the request of the rector of this church Valery Semantso, he handed over the old wooden shrine, in which the imperishable relics of the saint had rested, to the Life-Giving Spring temple. Pieces of the relics of St. Barbara were also transferred there.

But Yevstratiy Zorya has already developed a whole special operation: he becomes the rector of the church, then this reliquary, which in itself is already a shrine, and the icon with the relics of the Great Martyr Barbara is sent on a tour of the United States. By the way, the local city of Santa Barbara is named after this saint. And here, during this tour, the relics must be lost. If a scandal erupts, then a substitution of relics and reliquary will take place.

The shrines must go to a wealthy American Greek. The price of the issue has already been determined –$ 100,000 for the OCU Goebbels.

Interestingly, before that Yevstratiy Zorya, in complicity with Epiphany Dumenko, had offered Filaret’s antimensions to the Ukrainian parishes in the United States at $3,000 apiece. Such a business in Dumenko and Zorya.

We urge the parishioners of the Life-Giving Spring Church in Kiev to prevent the sale of Ukrainian shrines by Yevstratiy Zorya,” the message says.