Sunday, September 8, 2024

🔥 Un matrimonio imperial ruso en el horizonte: Rebecca Bettarini se convierte a la ortodoxia rusa

El Gran Duque Jorge Mijáilovich de Rusia y Victoria Romanovna Bettarini Fotografía (c) Casa Imperial Rusa

Del 11 al 13 de julio de 2020, el Gran Duque Jorge Mijáilovich de Rusia y Rebecca Bettarini visitaron San Petersburgo. El 12 de julio, día de la festividad de los santos apóstoles Pedro y Pablo, la pareja asistió a la Divina Liturgia en la Catedral de San Pedro y San Pablo. La liturgia fue oficiada por Su Eminencia el Metropolitano Varsonofii de San Petersburgo, junto con otros clérigos.

El Gran Duque Jorge Mijáilovich y Victoria Romanovna Fotografía cortesía de Victoria Romanovna 
Fotografía cortesía de Victoria Romanovna 
Fotografía cortesía de Victoria Romanovna
Fotografía cortesía de Victoria Romanovna
Fotografía cortesía de Victoria Romanovna
Fotografía cortesía de Victoria Romanovna 
Fotografía cortesía de Victoria Romanovna
Victoria Romanovna con el icono de la Santa Mártir Victoria de Roma, que le fue entregado en el momento de su conversión. Fotografía cortesía de Victoria Romanovna

Antes de que comenzara la liturgia, el arcipreste Aleksandr Tkachenko realizó el rito de la crismación de Rebecca Bettarini, directora de la Fundación Imperial Rusa, que en la Santa Ortodoxia tomó el nombre de Victoria Romanovna. Victoria declaró: “ Me sentí muy conmovida durante la ceremonia. Mi único pesar fue que ni la Gran Duquesa ni mis padres pudieron volar para asistir a la ceremonia debido a la situación de COVID-19 ” .

El Gran Duque Jorge Mijáilovich de Rusia recibe la Sagrada Comunión Fotografía (c) Casa Imperial Rusa
Victoria Romanovna Bettarini recibe la Sagrada Comunión Fotografía (c) Casa Imperial Rusa

El Gran Duque Jorge de Rusia y Victoria Romanovna Bettarini recibieron la Santa Comunión. Su Eminencia, el Metropolitano Varsonofii, entregó después a Victoria Romanovna un icono de su patrona celestial, la Santa Mártir Victoria de Roma.

El Gran Duque Jorge Mijáilovich y Victoria Romanovna Bettarini visitan el Nuevo Mausoleo Fotografía (c) Casa Imperial Rusa
El Gran Duque Jorge Mijáilovich y Victoria Romanovna Bettarini visitan el Nuevo Mausoleo Fotografía (c) Casa Imperial Rusa
Thereafter, Grand Duke George Mikhailovich, Victoria Romanovna Bettarini, and those accompanying them went to the New Mausoleum at the Cathedral of Ss. Peter and Paul, where Archpriest Alexander Tkachenko and Protodeacon Andrei Levin served a Litiya, or commemorative service, for Grand Duke Kirill Vladimirovich and Grand Duchess Victoria Feodorovna, Grand Duke Vladimir Kirillovich and Grand Duchess Leonida Georgievna, Grand Duke Vladimir Alexandrovich and Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna, and Grand Duke Alexander Vladimirovich (all of whom, except for the wife of Grand Duke Vladimir Alexandrovich, Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna, are buried in the New Mausoleum).
Grand Duke George Mikhailovich of Russia and Victoria Romanovna Bettarini at the Church of St. Martin the Confessor

In preparation for being received into Holy Orthodoxy, Rebecca Bettarini received religious instruction under the direction of His Eminence Archbishop Kyrill of San Francisco and Western America. This religious instruction took place in San Francisco, California. The day before their arrival in St. Petersburg, Grand Duke George and Rebecca Bettarini visited the Church of St. Martin the Confessor in Moscow, where her final session preparing her for Chrismation and Confession took place.

Victoria Romanovna Bettarini Photograph Courtesy of Victoria

Victoria Romanovna (Rebecca Virginia) Bettarini is the daughter of His Excellency Roberto Bettarini (b.Taranto 5 May 1947) and Carla Virginia Cacciatore. Mr. Bettarini an Italian diplomat who has served as the Italian Ambassador to Zaire, Iraq, Belgium, and Luxembourg. Rebecca Bettarini attended the Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali Guido Carli in Rome, where she received a bachelor’s degree in political science. She then went on to attain a master’s degree in development economics and international development from the Società Italiana Organizzazione Internazionale in Rome. Rebecca Bettarini serves as the Director of the Russian Imperial Foundation.

The Romanovs and Bettarinis in Moscow, March 2020.
In March 2020, Grand Duke George of Russia and Rebecca Bettarini attended services in Moscow to celebrate George’s thirty-ninth birthday. The pair were joined by their parents: Prince Franz Wilhelm (Michael Pavlovich) of Prussia with his second wife Princess Nadia and Mr. Roberto Bettarini and his wife Carla.

Grand Duke George Mikhailovich of Russia and Victoria Romanovna Bettarini have been in a relationship for almost a decade. An engagement has not been announced.

May God Bless Victoria Romanovna!

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