the temple was built and yaakim the pilgrim remains numbered at the temple.29 , the vedeno monastery was founded at the kupyat church, where the miraculous image was subsequently transferred in 1638 by the first abbot of the kupyat monastery. and as we know, the persecution of the orthodox church practically did not stop, and around 1665 there really was a threat that perhaps the monastery would be... plundered and destroyed, so the inhabitants of the monastery made the decision to make a copy of the merchant icon of the mother of god, and move the icon itself to a safer place, namely the st. sophia cathedral, the city of kiev, which was done. the icon itself is a cross, on which the most holy theotokos is depicted with the infant jesus christ, flanked by the icon of the righteous keymann, that is, the parents. of the most holy theotokos, on the back of the cross there is a crucifix, this is a copper cross, which is about 12 cm in size, 12x12, we have it here now, but there is also an icon painted later, that is, at the beginning of the 20th century, on which