{"id":13204,"date":"2005-09-29T20:14:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-29T20:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2005\/09\/29\/russian-admiral-named-patron-saint-of-nuclear\/"},"modified":"2005-09-29T20:14:00","modified_gmt":"2005-09-29T20:14:00","slug":"russian-admiral-named-patron-saint-of-nuclear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2005\/09\/29\/russian-admiral-named-patron-saint-of-nuclear\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian Admiral Named Patron Saint Of Nuclear Bomber Force"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Those wacky Russians&hellip; \ud83d\ude09  <i>Yahoo News<\/i> reports that:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Historic Russian admiral Fyodor Ushakov &ndash; a hero of Russia&rsquo;s wars against Turkey and Napoleon Bonaparte &ndash; was <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/afp\/20050926\/od_afp\/russiareligionmilitaryoffbeat_050926150901\" target=\"_blank\">designated the patron saint of nuclear-armed, long-distance Russian bombers<\/a> by the Orthodox Church.<\/p>\n<p>Russian Patriarch Alexei II, head of the Russian Orthodox Church, carried a reliquary and an icon of the admiral, who was canonised in 2004, into the Moscow chapel of the Russian Air Force&rsquo;s 37th Air Army in Moscow, Russia&rsquo;s RIA Novosti news agency said Monday.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I am sure he will become your intermediary as you fulfil your responsible duties to the fatherland in the long-range air force,&rdquo; the patriarch said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"byline\">tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/religion\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">religion<\/a> <\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-112792386618779050?l=www.driko.org\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those wacky Russians&hellip; \ud83d\ude09 Yahoo News reports that: Historic Russian admiral Fyodor Ushakov &ndash; a hero of Russia&rsquo;s wars against Turkey and Napoleon Bonaparte &ndash; was designated the patron saint of nuclear-armed, long-distance Russian bombers by the Orthodox Church. Russian Patriarch Alexei II, head of the Russian Orthodox Church, carried a reliquary and an icon &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2005\/09\/29\/russian-admiral-named-patron-saint-of-nuclear\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Russian Admiral Named Patron Saint Of Nuclear Bomber Force&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-13204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}