Happy Easter.  Christeean gentleman above.  Of the Rooski persuasion.

The name of the divine is Patriarch Kirill I.  Head of the Russian Orthodox Church.  On his left wrist in the photograph at left is a divine Breguet watch, or "timepiece" as it's probably called.  That particular timepiece set God back $30,000. Our brother Alexsei Navalny and others went nuts at the Church's excess.

We Americans know what Patriarch Kirill I should have done.  Pat should have called Mitt Romney who would have told him that Navalny, et al were just jealous losers attacking success. But this church is Russian so they didn't do that. They airbrushed the $30,000 Breguet out of the photo (at right).  Who would notice?

Now this is the detail that makes this so quintessentially Russian:  When the Church was caught airbrushing, their explanation was that indeed airbrushing had occurred; some unbeliever had airbrushed the $30,000 Breguet onto Pat's wrist.  The Church, the Church said, hadn't airbrushed it off Pat's wrist; someone else, a Jew?!, had airbrushed it onto Pat's wrist.

We here at Public Occurrences do not know how the Russian Orthodox Church differs from other Christeean churches but we assume that they recognize the Ten Commandments, number nine of which is "Thou shalt not lie."