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# Absolution prayer in the hands of the dead and a 17th-century foreigner's report on Saint Peter
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/takoi-vot-my-narod/
- Published: 2021-03-11T07:01:16.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-02T18:57:29.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Faith, Observations, Ethnography, Humour

That's just the sort of people we are. Saint Peter reads on a slip of paper that the departed is a Russian, and at once admits him to heaven. A modern priest reports that a note bearing the so-called prayer of absolution is placed in the hands of the deceased. Still, have we any grounds for doubting the testimony of a foreign observer from the seventeenth century?