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A massive Russian church bell that hung for decades at Harvard was returned to a Moscow monastery Wednesday, nearly 80 years after it and 17 others were rescued from Stalin’s religious purges by a U.S. industrialist.
Hundreds flocked to the Danilovsky Monastery, home to the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, for the ceremony to bless the bronze bell. The remaining 17 bells will be shipped to Russia next year. In exchange, Harvard will receive a set of replicas cast in Russia.
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Items compiled from Tribune news services.
