Battle of Orsha anniversary marked in Hrodna Cathedral

• 10.09.2014, 9:39

Representatives of General Consulates of Poland and Lithuania attended the solemn service.

The procession of priests was accompanied by knights. The service was in Latin like hundreds of years ago. The organ was playing and the priests were recalling the events that took place 500 years ago and praying for all those killed in the Battle of Orsha, Komsomolskaya Pravda v Belarusi writes.

After the service, choirs from Lithuania, Poland and Belarus gave a concert.

On September 8, 1514, our ancestors won the Battle of Orsha, one of the most significant battles of those times. It was a victory over superior forces of Moscow obtained in a defensive war on our lands by our own army led by an Orthodox Hetman.