Boxer Vasyl Lomachenko, who recently defeated Richard Commey, decided to send his Olympic gold medals from Beijing 2008 and London 2012 to Russia to make a pectoral cross for Fr Anatoly.
This is reported by Gazeta.ua.
Vasily made such a gift by contacting the Kostroma workshop, which happily told about it.
"The world has never known such cases. We performed and developed the original composition. We made a set of Olympic medals. Just think about it, the cross is made of the Olympic medals. Medals that a person earned with blood and sweat, for which the whole life has been dedicated, medals that went down in the world history of sports," the publication says.
From each of the two medals, a piece was sawn off and subsequently, they were sent back to Ukraine, with a crucifix in a special case.