White Russians

Byelorussian Autocephalic Orthodox Church in Cleveland has a section at Riverside Cleveland. In the background is the Jennings Freeway, steel mill, and a shopping center carved from the steel mills.

The current Latin spelling is 'Belarus', White Russia. There are four eastern Slavonic nations, each sometimes having a variation of 'Russian', although Ukraine isn't currently favoring the identification. Great Russia=Red Russia (this is a pre-communist era term)=the Russia everyone thinks about. Little Russia=Black Russia=Ukraine. White Russia=Belarus. Carpatho-Russia=Ruthenia.

The centerpiece is a monument recalling the discovery of a small Marian icon of stone at Zyrovicy (Жыро́вічы, Zhirovichi) in 1470. Shepherd boys found a pear tree glowing, and the glow was from the oval icon.

"More honorable than the cherubim, And more glorious beyond compare than the seraphim, In virginity you bore God the Word; True Mother of God, we magnify you."