In the year 7522 from the creation of the world, corresponding to 2014 from the Nativity of Christ, on October 2, a new date for the birth of the Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the village of Lyubilki was laid. This date is inscribed on the foundation stone, and on this day, Metropolitan Panteleimon of Yaroslavl and Rostov laid a commemorative capsule in the building church. According to local historian A.A. Titov, the stone church in Lyubilki was built in 1800. It had two parishes: the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary and Theodosius of Totma. Before that, there was a wooden church in the village, which burned down. The stone church did not last long and was destroyed in the 1930s, with the bricks used for the construction of the Petrovskaya secondary school. In 2000, a wooden memorial cross was erected at the site of the church, and by that time, the area had become overgrown with forest. Local resident Zinaida Alexeyevna Komarova recounted that the initiative group had to put in a lot of effort to clear the site for the cross. In 2010, the wooden cross was replaced with a more durable metal-clad one, and with the start of construction, it was moved aside. This year, after the project was approved, the revival of the church began. The construction is being carried out under the guidance of local resident, director of the Yaroslavl construction company 'New House,' Alexey Nikolaevich Pobiedonoscev. He has long dreamed of reviving the church in his homeland and worked extensively in archives to find out what it looked like. During this process, he learned a lot about his native village and found an old project that became the basis for the new one. Currently, the walls of the altar and the central part of the church have already been erected, but it is planned to restore it completely. The construction is divided into two stages to expedite the start of services. This important event is significant not only for Lyubilki and the Petrovskoye deanery but for the entire diocese. The new church is intended to be not just a monument but a place for prayer, where people will come in joy and sorrow. On the day of the consecration of the construction, despite the bad weather, local residents came to pray together with the bishop, and the rain that had been falling for hours stopped by the beginning of the service, as if blessing this good deed.
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