You may have heard the Russian Orthodox Church is breaking new ground with a patron saint of nuclear-armed, long-distance Russian bombers. Nope, I'm not kidding.
The honor goes to Admiral Fyodor Ushakov, a hero of Russia's wars against Turkey and Napoleon, Russia's RIA Novosti news agency said. Ushakov's canonization (for miraculous cannon use?) as a saint last year follows a strong tradition in Russia of close relations between the Orthodox Church and the state, revived after the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union.
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