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On Sunday, June 11, 2023, at around 1:10 am, the Munich fire department was alerted to a fire on the
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in Munich as a place of worship. However, those in charge of each rejected the offer, as the
Catholics saw too many elements of the Orthodox in the building, and the Orthodox in turn saw too many Catholic elements. As a result, Timofey himself celebrated the
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in 1944. In 1952, after another vision, he moved to Munich. In a third vision, Timofej received the order to build a church at
Oberwiesenfeld and, along with his wife, began to build the church and the dwelling from remains of a nearby rubble mountain.
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