{"id":2249,"date":"2007-03-21T00:42:45","date_gmt":"2007-03-21T04:42:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/2007\/03\/21\/a-journey-that-will-come-full-circle-and-end-with-a-ring\/"},"modified":"2007-03-21T00:46:31","modified_gmt":"2007-03-21T04:46:31","slug":"a-journey-that-will-come-full-circle-and-end-with-a-ring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/2007\/03\/a-journey-that-will-come-full-circle-and-end-with-a-ring\/","title":{"rendered":"A Journey That Will Come Full Circle and End With a Ring"},"content":{"rendered":"

New York Times<\/a> (free registration required) Sergei Kivrin March 21, 2007<\/p>\n

\"Danilov<\/span>At the Danilov Monastery in Moscow, Hierodeacon Roman, a bell ringer, may be able ring the tower\u2019s original bells by next year.<\/em> <\/p>\n

MOSCOW, March 20 \u2014 The bells of Lowell House at Harvard \u2014 so much a part of the university\u2019s tradition that they have their own society of bell ringers \u2014 will soon return to the Russian monastery from which they were sold more than 70 years ago. <\/p>\n

The Russian Orthodox Church and the university announced a final agreement on Tuesday to move the bells next year to Danilov Monastery, the residence of the Russian patriarch, after a replacement set for Harvard is completed.<\/p>\n

The bells have become a symbol for the resurgence of the Orthodox Church and its drive, much like Russia\u2019s, to reclaim its former glory. <\/p>\n

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\u201cThe bells are not only a witness, but a victim of history,\u201d the patriarch, Aleksy II, said during the signing ceremony at the monastery, which was founded in the 13th century. \u201cThey are a symbol of the independence, greatness, and identity of the people.\u201d <\/p>\n

Over the years, however, the bells \u2014 the oldest cast 325 years ago \u2014 have also been endowed with nearly sacred significance at Harvard, where they have become a fixture of Lowell\u2019s identity and a source of pranks, including one played on Franklin D. Roosevelt. (He was led to believe that the bells would be dedicated to him.) <\/p>\n

After Stalin silenced the bells and had the Danilov monks killed, an American diplomat, Charles R. Crane, bought the bells from the Soviet government and donated them to the university in 1930. Seventeen of the bells are at Lowell House and the other, also to be returned, is at Harvard Business School.<\/p>\n

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New York Times (free registration required) Sergei Kivrin March 21, 2007 At the Danilov Monastery in Moscow, Hierodeacon Roman, a bell ringer, may be able ring the tower\u2019s original bells by next year. MOSCOW, March 20 \u2014 The bells of Lowell House at Harvard \u2014 so much a part of the university\u2019s tradition that they … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1319,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-orthodox-christianity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1319"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}