Visitors in front of the icon of the Theotokos of Vladimir in the Notre-Dame Cathedral (Notre-Dame de Paris) in Paris, France. The copy of the Byzantine icon regarded as the holy protectress of Russia was gifted to the Notre-Dame Cathedral by Patriarch Alexius II of Moscow, the primate of the Russian Orthodox Church.

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