astrakhan ermagen , the mother of god appeared several times in a dream to the ten-year-old girl matronaed a deliverer from ailments associated with the eyes, with blindness. and here, of course, there is deep symbolism, this is light orthodoxy. since then, the icon, one of the main russian shrines, closely connected with the fate of the country, has been kept in the bogoroditsky monastery in kazan. in 1904 she was. stolen and most likely lost, but in the 16th century several copies were made from it, many were considered miraculous, the fact that prince pozharsky prayed in front of this image whenever he entered into a decisive battle with the polish invaders. after the expulsion of the poles, prince pozharsky built a temple of the icon of our lady of kazan on red square, where it was kept until the revolution. the bolsheviks demolished the temple, and the miraculous icon disappeared. the temple named after her used to be in the nineties, but the shrine itself, as everyone was sure, was lost forever , at first i thought that it was a very skillfully made fake, and now they make it like

incredible, just think about it, nicholas the wonderworker, eurosinia polovskaya, optina elders, matronaeve me, is not the whole list, but let’s return to the icon, it turns out that for the shrine there is also a concept of seasonality, in winter it is transferred to st. nicholas church, it’s warmer there, it’s the border there... for the entire winter period, when it’s cold, here, at the moment it’s kept here, when it’s already warm outside, that is, in fact, this icon has two houses, yes , st. nicholas church and the central church, yes, it turns out, uh, during warm weather, the original is here, a copy in st. nicholas, and then everything changes, all because the clergyman treats the miraculous icon very carefully, and it’s not only about religious principles, but quite worldly... pragmatism: there has been a crack on the stone image for many years, once upon a time, keepers even glued the icon with wax; the material, of course, was not so-so in terms of strength, but at that time there was nothing better. trofim told me this and other monastic secrets on the way to the st. nicholas

of metropolitan eermagen of kazan and astrakhan, the mother of god appeared to a ten-year-old girl matrona, of course, there is deep symbolism, this is precisely the light of orthodoxy. since then, the icon, one of the main russian shrines, closely connected with the fate of the country, has been kept in the bogoroditsky monastery in kazan. in 1904 it was stolen and most likely lost. but in the 16th century several copies were made from it, many were considered miraculous. the most accurate one was kept in moscow; according to legend, it was she who helped minin and pozharsky. this is exactly the time, we know that prince pozharsky prayed in front of this image whenever entered into a decisive battle with the polish invaders, after the expulsion of the poles, prince pozharsky built a temple of the icon of our lady of kazan on red square, where it was kept until the revolution. the bolsheviks demolished the temple, and the miraculous icon disappeared. the temple named after her was restored in the nineties. this is a very skillfully made fake, this is how they are made now, these are exactl