and asked bishop pavel to express his opinion on this matter, with a letter. i explained what our icons are, how they are made, how they differ from traditional icons, what they can do, and in general in in the end, and i already as a scientist in my science came to the idea that, in general, the zheroevich icon of the mother of god is a spiritual symbol of the belarusian people and its, both territorial integrity and its sovereignty, and therefore this is a kind of banner, moreover, all our neighbors have this banner. belarusians have it, as it were, but it is in such a way, as if still in motion, well, the poles have the chestokhov icon, the lithuanians have the starbram icon, which means our russian neighbors, which means there are five whole icons, this is the vladimir central one icon, smolensk, which is directly in contact with belarus. tikhvin in the north, kazan icon protects the east with its aphor of russia and the south, the territory of southern russia is protected by the iveron icon, this is all very symbolic at the same time in history is signifi