Bulgaria is receiving the mortal remains of Tsar Samuel at a solemn state ceremony in central Sofia on Saturday. They were transported aboard a Spartan military transport aircraft from Thessaloniki to Vasil Levski Airport in Sofia earlier in the day.
As part of the ceremony, Prime Minister Rumen Radev will deliver an address. Twenty-one artillery salutes will be fired during the playing of the Bulgarian national anthem. The ceremony will continue with a procession to the Basilica of St Sofia, where members of the public will have the opportunity to pay their respects to Tsar Samuel’s mortal remains and a trisagion service will be held. The sarcophagus containing Tsar Samuel’s mortal remains will be placed in the southern part of the transept of the Basilica of St Sofia.
The ceremony is being attended by National Assembly Chair Michaela Dotsova, Prime Minister Rumen Radev, President Iliana Iotova, former presidents Petar Stoyanov (1997-2002), Rosen Plevneliev (2012-2017) and Georgi Parvanov (2002-2012), Bulgarian Patriarch and Sofia Metropolitan Daniil, metropolitans, as well as Deputy Prime Ministers Ivo Hristov, Galab Donev, Atanas Pekanov and Aleksandar Pоulev, Defence Minister Dimitar Stoyanov, Interior Minister Ivan Demerdzhiev, Innovation and Digital Transformation Minister Ivan Vаsilev, Health Minister Katya Ivkova, Energy Minister Iva Petrova, Labour and Social Policy Minister Nataliya Efremova, Education and Science Minister Prof. Georgi Valchev, Foreign Minister Velislava Petrova, former prime ministers Sergei Stanishev and Kiril Petkov as well as political leaders and MPs, including Boyko Borissov, Nikolay Denkov, Assen Vassilev and Ivaylo Mirchev, MEPs, members of the diplomatic corps, senior military officers, representatives of State institutions, municipal councillors, clergy and members of the public.
The Spartan military transport aircraft carrying Tsar Samuel’s mortal remains, escorted by fighter jets, flew over Knyaz Alexander I Square. After flying over Sofia, the aircraft landed at Vasil Levski Airport, where members of the National Guards Unit carried the coffin containing the mortal remains. The remains will be transported from the airport to the city centre in a military truck.
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