According to a report from a Russian media network, former Detroit Red Wings star Pavel Datsyuk is hunkered down, holed up, entangled with, or caught up in (depending on how you want to define this story) a monastery takeover with his personal confessor. If accurate, it’s an odd situation, to say the least.
Reports (who knows how accurate) are that the Russian monastery is being guarded by Cossacks and includes Datsyuk, among others. The drama is being led by Father Sergius at the Central Urals Monastery in Ekaterinburg, about 1,100 miles east of Moscow.
Former Detroit Red Wings star Datsyuk, 41, is said to be at Ekaterinburg’s Central Urals Monastery, where according to local media Shiigumen (father superior) Sergius has taken over after ousting the abbess of the convent.
The power grab comes after Sergius was reportedly banned from conducting religious duties because of his claims that the Covid-19 outbreak was a “pseudo-pandemic” and that it was being used as an excuse to microchip the public.
The priest is also said to have complained that the closure of churches in Russia during the coronavirus crisis was done under pressure from “the atheistic authorities.”
The report claims that Sergius believes the COVID-19 pandemic is a conspiracy, devised as a way to get people microchipped.
According to the Detroit Free Press:
“Sergius has been banned from conducting services because of his beliefs, and he is scheduled to face a tribunal June 26 for disobeying Patriarch Kirill, head of the Russian Orthodox Church.
Rt.com says Sergius is a former police officer who served 13 years in prison for committing murder.
Later Wednesday afternoon, former Freep sportswriter Keith Gave put shed a bit more light on the reports and, in a way, calmed the waters a little. He said he spoke with Datsyuk’s agent on his whereabouts and says Pavel is at his cottage with his family.
Still, something seems odd here and there has been no official statement or comment from Pavel himself.
Obviously, if there are developments, we’ll be sure to have them here.
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