Posted by George Patsourakos
on 9/9/2009, 5:03 pm
A senior figure in the Bulgarian Orthodox Church has suggested that a wrathful God -- angry with Bulgarians attending a Madonna concert -- may have had a hand in a recent boating tragedy that claimed the lives of 15 of his countrymen.
Nikolay, the metropolitan of Bulgaria's second largest city, Plovdiv, linked the disaster, which occurred on Lake Ohrid in Macedonia on September 5, to the behavior of Bulgarians who attended the concert. "The catastrophe in Macedonia, in which 15 Bulgarian citizens died, was a sign from heaven," said the metropolitan in a special memorial mass for the victime.
Nikolay stressed that the day of the Madonna concert, August 29, had coincided with a holy day commemorating the beheading of John the Baptist, who had baptized Christ, and therefore was not a day for enjoyment.
The Orthodox Church of Bulgaria had urged people not to attend the Madonna concert.
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