Translation of the relics of Prince-martyr Michael and his counselor, St. Theodore of Chernigov (1578)

Commemorated on February 14

The translation of the relics of the rightly believing Prince Michael of Chernigov and his boyar Theodore, tortured by Batu of the Golden Horde on September 20, 1244. At first, pious Russian Christians secretly held their relics. First they were transferred to Vladimir, and then to Chernigov, and from there, after the transfer of Chernigov to the authority of the Poles in the year 1572. On February 14, Tsar Ivan Vasiljevich the Terrible transferred them to Moscow. Now they repose (since 1774) in a secret place in the Moscow Holy Archangels Cathedral in the Kremlin. See September 20.