Myrrh-streaming of icons: a scientific explanation of the miracle. Myrrh streaming in icons - why do icons bleed? Why do icons stream myrrh?
Klin-9: smell and awe
In the military town of Klin-9 in 2001, an elderly woman’s house had icons filled with myrrh. And not just one or two, but absolutely everything! Television, the press: only a lazy person could pass by such a “picture” then, no matter whether he was a believer or an unbeliever. NS correspondent Natalya BESSONOVA, a young neophyte at that time, went on a pilgrimage to the myrrh-streaming icons.
I visited Valentina Zhuchkova in 2003. The myrrh streaming of icons in her apartment had only just begun, but it was already widely known outside the Moscow region. My confessor advised me to go - to strengthen my faith. He offered to take the icon with him from home. As I was told before the trip, some people’s brought icons begin to stream myrrh in their hands when they first enter the apartment, but this is a rare case. For everyone else, Valentina herself anoints them with cotton wool.
So, I got ready to go. I was joined by a skeptical friend and a hieromonk, a resident of a monastery near Moscow. Father had already visited Valentina, left his icon with her and now wanted to take it back. On the way in the car, we discussed the reasons for our trip. What motivates us? Curiosity? Yes. The desire to have a personal “home miracle” - a myrrh-streaming icon? Yes. It's good? No. So what are we going for? “The miracle, as it began suddenly, can end like this - and then we will regret that we didn’t see everything with our own eyes, although we could - that’s why we’re going,” we justified ourselves to each other.
We felt a sweet floral smell when we were just approaching the five-story block building, in the second entrance of which there was an unusual apartment. There was such an aroma in the entrance that the air seemed thick. The smell and awe before meeting the miracle made my head spin. Valentina greeted us warmly, took me and my friend into the living room and turned on to watch the film “The Miracle of Klin,” where she tells how it all began, and she went with the priest to look for his icon.
After we watched the “introductory” film, Valentina led us into the next room, a former bedroom, filled to the ceiling with icons. There were a lot of them: paper, metal, wood; old and new. All the icons streamed myrrh. Different images they smelled different. For example, the icons of the blessed Matrona smelled of lilies, no matter where they stood or what they were made of. Under all the icons there were neat rags, towels and cotton wool so that the myrrh would not drip onto the floor (Valentina distributed this cotton wool to everyone who came).
Father began to serve a prayer service, after which Valentina led us to a plastic ditch where the Iveron Icon of the Mother of God “floated” in the world. She poured all the myrrh from the cuvette into medicine bottles and gave them to us, and wiped the icon, put it back and suggested that we take a closer look at its surface. Fountain bubbles appeared on the printed image and the cuvette began to fill with the fragrant composition again. If someone had told me that a cuvette larger in volume than an icon could be filled to the brim, I would not have believed it. But I saw it with my own eyes and even took a photograph.
Valentina told how old icons were being renewed, how the room smelled of damp earth before the September 11 terrorist attack, how a physicist came and said that it was condensation in the air and laughed at her, but when he held Iverskaya and the myrrh flowed down his hands, he believed and was baptized, how the possessed scream, how the sick are healed, and many, many more stories, terrible closeness spiritual world. Poor woman. I listened to all this and thought that, God forbid, this would happen to me - I would go crazy in a matter of hours, if not from pride, then from the complete impossibility of existing next to a constant miracle, but she persists, somehow even humbles himself.
Although she looks somewhat blissful. But since the situation in which she lives is not ordinary, then perhaps some enthusiastic mysticism can be forgiven for her... She says that it is a great mystery to her why it all started in this apartment, and that she does not know for what purpose the Lord arranged all this . But if He so pleases, she is ready to receive endless crowds of people in her apartment, which now looks like a subway car at rush hour, handing out bottles of peace to everyone, telling everyone again and again how it all began, and how the physicist came to believe.
After about an hour of all this talking and thinking, touching and smelling, the brain switches off in emergency mode. The part of it that is responsible for recognizing reality and analyzing what is happening is blocked. You begin to take everything “for granted.” Yes, indeed, fresh blood appeared on the paper icon cut out from the calendar and it smells “naturally” of blood; yes, but a drop of peace flowed from my icon, brought from home...
We returned back in silence. My “skeptical friend” reached Moscow with her mouth open in surprise - the icon that she brought with her to Klin began to myrrhize in her hands. After this trip, the girl began to regularly go to church, confess and receive communion. The myrrh on the icons brought home froze in droplets and soon dried up, but the dizzying smell lingered for a very long time.
If we judge by the fruits, as the Holy Scripture advises, then what we saw strengthened us in faith and this fruit is positive. But I have no desire to go there again, because it’s scary. The supernatural nature of what is happening in Klin is obvious. But who does this actually come from? From God or not? It’s not clear, and therefore scary. It is not possible to understand this with your own mind. It's scary to make a mistake, because this mistake will be too large.
Myrrh-streaming in Klin: why do icons cry?
Seven years later, the endless stream of pilgrims and onlookers to Klin-9 has dried up. The Klin “myrrh-streaming” was almost forgotten not only by journalists, but also by church people. Why? Our correspondent Dmitry REBROV tried to find out.
Guardian of icons
More than an hour and a half from Moscow by train, from the station by bus to the suburbs - the apartment of Valentina Zhuchkova, the “keeper” of the Klin miracle, is located in a military garrison on the very outskirts of the city. Here, to the left of the entrance gates, in a five-story panel building, icons have been streaming myrrh for seven years. At the entrance to the entrance there is a newly built chapel, deserted. “Are you at the reception? Come in,” Valentina opens the door herself. She looks to be no more than fifty, of short stature, and her head is covered with a scarf. - “Here, it’s here!” - She points to the door of the room. “They come from all over the CIS, from Canada, from Belgium, Washington, New Jersey,” Valentina explains readily, but upon learning that we came not just “on a pilgrimage,” but to write a report, she becomes taciturn. “I don’t need publications; journalists constantly add thousands of distortions to my words. I don't need advertising. After seven years, I’m tired of seeing five hundred people a day. And the neighbors are offended, they are not happy with all this...” But since today there are no other visitors besides me, Valentina Mikhailovna tells how seven years ago the icons “cryed” at her house.
“Over many years, I have become convinced that myrrh does not appear from icons, but descends like a cloud. This happens unnoticed,” explains Valentina Zhuchkova. Almost all icons have large drops of “mirror” everywhere: on their faces, on their clothes. Some icons lying in wooden icon cases have drops only on the outside, on the glass door, but most are without frames, and there the drops are evenly distributed over the entire surface. It smells like something like caramel, however, not as strong as the media described it seven years ago. The main shrine - the Iveron icon in an open icon case - is almost completely immersed in oil. “This icon still streams myrrh the most,” says Valentina. “Look. Do you see how the drops appear?” she says, taking out the icon. (icon format no more than 15-20 cm diagonally). “Miro” slowly flows down from the icon, and on its shiny and wet surface several swellings, like drops, become noticeable as the oil slides down. A little later, the surface begins to become covered with small bubbles, as if from air. "You see? And then some look at the icon and say: how it streams myrrh, show me, I get it for them, we both look, I see, but he doesn’t! - Valentina is worried. “That is, they simply don’t believe their eyes, they see and don’t believe!” I believed my eyes.
“Isn’t this all a fraud? No, it is not,” explains to us after some time in Klin itself, Archpriest Alexey Tyukov, cleric of the Sorrow Church, member of the special commission of the deanery to study the phenomenon of myrrh flow. In addition to this commission, whose competence included theological and pastoral expertise, an expert group also worked with the “Klin myrrh-streaming” to describe the miraculous events taking place in Russian Orthodox Church, under the Synodal Theological Commission of the Moscow Patriarchate, chaired by Pavel Florensky: “The synodal group was involved in the scientific examination, and they, like us, can confirm that the outflow of an oily liquid actually occurs. We have no reason to say that this is a fake.”
However, the clergy who care for the parishes of the Klin deanery carefully select their words when talking about the “miracle”: “We call this phenomenon not the flow of myrrh, but the outflow of an oily liquid,” notes Father Alexey, “after all, the fact of “myrrh flow” in itself does not make it possible to speak that this is a manifestation from God." And such caution is not accidental. According to the Apocalypse, there is no such miracle that the Antichrist cannot fake. There are many things that confuse the hierarchy in the “Klin story.”
“Many miracles, conversions, healings happen here,” Valentina continues to say. - As an example, my own family, its life has been radically turned upside down. What I couldn’t even dream of happened: my daughter, who could not give birth to a child for a long time, now has four children. All my children were non-believers, but now they have come to faith, got married, and live in a church marriage.”
No one lives in the apartment with the icons now: the children moved to Klin, and Valentina herself moved to Tver, where she tries not to talk about her miracle: “I go to the church there as an ordinary parishioner,” she admits. Once or twice a week, Valentina comes to the garrison, where she receives pilgrims: laymen, monks, and clergy. To the questions: “why did the miracle happen here?”, he modestly answers: “I don’t know, it’s probably connected with the place itself, because I’m an ordinary sinful person, and I don’t consider myself worthy of this miracle due to some merit. I’m simply the keeper of these icons.”
There is a miracle, but there is no obedience
“If you go to the dean, he will tell you this, I don’t even want to argue with all this!” sighs “Mother Valentina,” as pilgrims sometimes call her in a monastic manner, when asked about the attitude of local clergy to the miracle.
Seven years ago, a conflict arose between Valentina Mikhailovna and the pastors of the Klin deanery. It all started with the fact that after several questions from the priesthood, the “keeper of the miracle” drove away the commission that had come to her from the deanery. “We then came to look - we wanted to see everything with our own eyes, to talk,” says Father Alexy Tyukov, “but suddenly we saw on the shelves, “myrrh streaming”, in addition to icons, and very dubious images, such as a portrait of Ivan the Terrible, some photographs of confessors Valentines. After our question about the non-canonical nature of the images of Ivan the Terrible, Valentina Mikhailovna interrupted the conversation and asked us to leave the room. We tried to get at least some information about the healings that she said were happening here, but we couldn’t find out anything concrete. Valentina Mikhailovna herself explains the lack of such information by saying that she simply “didn’t need it”, at first she “wrote it down somehow”, and then got tired, “you can’t rewrite everything!”
Valentina left the pastoral meeting to which she was invited by the local clergy: “She then attacked us with a storm of criticism: why don’t we recognize “her” miracle, and why didn’t we publish about it in the church newspaper, when we publish about other miracles? , says the dean of the Klin district, Archpriest Boris Balashov. “The fact is that in the village of Nudol, Klinsky district, in the Church of the Transfiguration of the Lord, an icon was also myrrhized. We published a short note about this in the church supplement to the local newspaper. We did not write about Valentine’s icons because we treated them with caution and chose a wait-and-see attitude. We invited Valentina to the meeting to talk, but from the threshold she began to be indignant, reproach us, and accuse us of “disbelief.”
The rector of the church in honor of the Venerable Martyr Seraphim of Klin, located in the garrison, priest Igor Kovalev, whose parishioner before the “myrrh-streaming” was Valentina, says that at first she brought icons to show him, but in the temple their “myrrh-streaming” stopped every time. “At first I gave them to the church, but why take them if they don’t stream myrrh there?” Zhuchkova now reasonably notes.
Priest Igor Kovalev is inclined to regard the nature of the “myrrh-streaming” in Valentina’s apartment as “absolutely non-church.” “Of all the people who visited Valentina in our microdistrict, without ever visiting the church before, only one person came to the church after watching the “myrrh-streaming,” he says.” Considering that the church of Father Igor is the only one in the military town, and almost the majority of the residents of the garrison visited Zhuchkova’s apartment, the “missionary catch” of the miracle is really small. “We never forbade anyone from going there, although we didn’t bless it, but now not a single parishioner in our church visits Valentina’s apartment, even though at first they stood by her huge queues, continues Father Igor. “Today we have begun to travel much less, and many of those who come stop at our church on the way, and, after talking with the parishioners or with me, discussing this, they often decide not to go to the apartment at all. And vice versa, those who are already returning from the apartment, as a rule, do not come to our temple.”
According to the observations of the local priesthood, an ecstatic audience very quickly gathered around Valentina and the “myrrh-streaming” icons. “In the end, all this was expressed in the fact that Valentina Mikhailovna stopped participating in parish life, stopped confessing and receiving communion in the churches of our deanery, preferring to organize independent prayer services at home, in front of the icons. This, of course, is not yet a schism, but already a kind of unhealthy independence,” says Archpriest Boris Balashov, dean of the district. “Some clergy from other dioceses began to come to her on a ‘pilgrimage’, read akathists there, some ‘elders’, to whom she began to take women she knew for ‘treatment’.”
“A miracle for the sake of a miracle is pointless. God does not act just like that, He always has a very specific goal in terms of saving a person. And, falling under Valentina’s authority, people who are carried away by her charisma get the wrong idea about God and spiritual life,” says Father Alexy Tyukov. “For example, Valentina told one of our parishioners that “there is no need to come to the priest, communion will not help you.” We, of course, cannot demand from every grandmother the heights of ascetic sobriety, and, indeed, we ourselves cannot say with confidence anything about the nature of the “Klin miracle,” but if there is a miracle, but there is no obedience, but on the contrary - scandals, divisions, This alarms us, as shepherds, and determines our attitude towards this “miracle” as extremely cautious. The fruit of the spirit is peace, not division. Therefore, we do not bless our parishioners to visit this apartment. Do not blaspheme and do not accept if you cannot determine with absolute certainty what kind of spirit this miracle is - this is the ancient patristic principle in relation to “miraculous” phenomena. This is what we are guided by.”
Valentina confirms that she does not go to the temple where they do not believe in “her” miracle. Her current confessor lives far away, in the Pochaev Lavra, and, as she says, it was he who advised her not to give any interviews. But while we are saying goodbye, already at the door, she, without any questions on my part, remembers about “different approaches in the Church to the same things,” and more specifically, about the sore point: “I don’t have any passports with chips.” “I’m not going to take any cards,” she declares. “I gave up my pension and all the benefits.” It's easier for me. Why am I going to use a number? I want it under my own name! Now they say about Diomede that he’s a schismatic, he’s like this and that... But he was here, and he was more than once! And at least one bishop was like him, he would have expressed his opinion like that, he’s just a martyr!”
“Why do you think icons cry?” - she asks at the last moment, and she answers her own question: “Maybe that’s why they’re crying, because everything around them is “chipt”, these cards are everywhere... God just sees how we live, that’s why they cry!” Perhaps without noticing it, Valentina Zhuchkova said “we.” But who she meant by this “we”: herself, the shepherds of the deanery, someone else, or all of them together, remained a mystery.
Myrrh-streaming is a unique phenomenon. It is considered a real miracle, since not all icons can stream myrrh. Myrrh is a special oil that is released on the surface of icons, images, and relics. It exudes a pleasant fragrance; the consistency of myrrh can be honey-like, sticky like resin, or similar to dew.
An icon that streams myrrh is deservedly considered special, and the myrrh itself is miraculous. Those who touch it will be healed from any ailments, relationship problems, mental and physical illnesses, disasters.
INTERESTING: When dew appears on the icon, a special commission immediately comes to it, which confirms the fact that this phenomenon is not a fake. The myrrh-streaming icon is placed in a special capsule.
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Why does the icon shed blood?
Icons and images do not literally cry blood. If the process of myrrh-streaming is not artificially faked (that is, there are no special holes in the icon that release moisture or oil), then most likely the myrrh is mixed with paint, that the image was painted, which in its mixed state has a brownish tint.
IMPORTANT: From an esoteric point of view, such a phenomenon can be regarded as a sign. Warning about events in the future (most often bad: war, losses, disputes, death, illness).
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Why do icons stream myrrh and cry in churches and at home: folk signs
Interpretations will accept:
- The icon “cries” - a sign that foreshadows changes in the future; if the “tears” are light, they will be good, if dark, they will be bad.
- The icon was covered with “dew” - a good sign that tells you that everything will be fine.
- The icon streams myrrh abundantly - a good sign about upcoming favorable events.
- The icon streams myrrh in the church - a favorable sign for the church, city, parishioners.
- The icon streams myrrh at home - a good event will happen in the family
What does it mean when the icon of the Pantocrator, St. Nicholas the Wonderworker, the Mother of God, and the Seven Arrows streams myrrh?
Interpretations:
- The icon of the Almighty streams myrrh - expect favorable events and changes, your affairs will improve and your life will become happy.
- The icon of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker streams myrrh - happy event or message, favorable life changes.
- The icon of the Mother of God streams myrrh - children's health, the birth of a child, getting rid of diseases.
- The Seven-Shot Icon streams myrrh - peace and quiet at home, protection from the “evil eye”
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What to do if the icon at home is streaming myrrh?
Under no circumstances should such an icon be washed or wiped. Try not to disturb her and if you have the opportunity, invite a clergyman to your home who could witness this phenomenon. Wait until the myrrh-streaming ends, even if it lasts a very long time. Accept it as God's grace and respect the icon that gave you such a unique sign.
Today the church surprises with myrrh-streaming icons and statues. IN Lately There are many cases of crying or even bleeding icons. In Russia, the most common icons are the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God and the Icon of the Savior. This sign is considered extremely scary in Christianity. Society has distanced itself from God to such an extent that the holy relics are “heartbroken” from grief.
Why do icons bleed?
For ten years now, the phenomenon of bleeding icons has been studied in Russia; a special commission has even been created by the Academy of Sciences and the Moscow Patriarchate. So far, more than ten thousand different signals about rare oddities of icons have been received here. Evaluation from different icons indicates that the structure of the substance resembles olive or sunflower oil. Nevertheless, the structure of organic matter is so complex that the substances from different icons differ. No one knows exactly why icons bleed—more often these days. Maybe it’s because people have become cruel or we don’t go to church anymore.
Cases of bleeding Orthodox icons
Found by the girl Matrona in 1579. The image of the Mother of God was sent to Russia as a reward for the zeal of Russian preachers. We noticed that the icon was crying about 4 years ago. First a red spot appeared, which grew larger and larger over time. They thought that this was the action of the sun's rays and then the face was moved to another place. But the icon still bled. Another incident occurred with a bleeding icon of the Savior. On Wednesday of the Cross in 2000, worshipers saw some liquid appear from the right hand of the Savior. After a while, blood flowed from there. A little later, red spots swelled near the hair. It was like the remains of a crown of thorns - and blood was flowing out of them.
T just the facts
In 2001, in the Kostomarovsky Holy Trinity Monastery, which Voronezh region, bled the image of the Valaam Mother of God. Blood began to ooze along the hem of the Queen of Heaven's robe and from the Baby's legs. To determine the authenticity of the phenomenon, the liquid collected from the icon of the Mother of God was sent for examination. It turned out that it was indeed human blood. After DNA analysis, it was also established that with a high degree of probability it can be argued that this blood and the blood from the Shroud of Turin belong to relatives.
In 2009, the Vesti program aired a story about how the icon of the Mother of God of Kazan began bleeding in the parish church in the village of Log, Volgograd Region. A bloody stain formed on the face, which lightened, darkened, and pulsated like a real heart.
To avoid speculation, a commission was created consisting of representatives of religion and science, and doctors were also invited to it. The verdict of the latter is stunning: the Mother of God has a classic case of vascular hemorrhage, characteristic of a severe cardiac disease - the Queen of Heaven’s heart hurts for the people. After the icon began bleeding, cases of grace-filled healing began to appear, and each of them was registered only after a thorough medical examination.Why is this happening?
The Orthodox Church considers the bleeding of icons to be a very alarming signal: people have become so alienated from God that they Holy Mother of God or some saint’s heart begins to break from grief. And then the icon begins to bleed. The following case confirms this statement. A resident of Kurgan cried tears of blood personalized icon Great Martyr Irene, lying on the desk under glass. The young woman realized that by deviating from the rules of piety, she had greatly upset her heavenly patroness. After tearful repentance and correction of her life, she noticed that the icon stopped bleeding. And only the photograph, which remained as evidence, testifies to such a formidable admonition.
However, the bleeding of icons can be not only a call to repentance. Amazing signs and wonders were revealed in abundance at the dawn of Christianity, when its adherents were dealt with with particular cruelty, and at the time of the emergence of heresies. Thus, difficult times for Orthodoxy were predicted by numerous facts of renewal of icons, crosses, and domes, which were recorded in dozens in Primorye and in the south of Russia. And indeed, not even ten years had passed since the persecution of the Church began: executions of priests, pogroms and closures of churches. It is quite possible that the blood on the icons is a harbinger of future tests of faith.
Each case of an icon bleeding makes us think about the correctness of our life, about its compliance with the gospel spirit. Only rethinking one’s actions and heartfelt repentance can change the situation, putting its development in the most favorable direction for us.
On July 17, 2008, on the 90th anniversary of the martyrdom of the August Royal Family, in the Church of the Royal Martyrs under construction (Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine), where Fr. Victor (Golovchenko), a terrible miracle was revealed: the icon of the Holy Royal Family bled. This happened after the Divine Liturgy and the Royal Procession of the Cross, which took place in the village of Ksenyevka, where the Temple is located. Drops of bloody color flowed down the icon, leaving everyone present in awe. Some woman standing next to me said: “I really wanted to go to Yekaterinburg...”, and I thought: “Here we have Yekaterinburg...” Drops flowed from the crimson robe of the Mother of God Sovereign, depicted at the top of the icon, above the Royal Family, - down to the halo of the Tsar-Martyr, there are also many, many droplets along the image of Tsarevna Olga, i.e. along the left edge of the icon from the very top. And two more drops below flowed onto the frame from the robes of the Royal Martyrs. Conversations in the church are about the threat of autocephaly, about Patriarch Bartholomew, about NATO... Many in front of the icon, kneeling down, cried... One woman said in shock, “She is alive” (about the icon) and added: “THEY ARE ALIVE...”
Icon of the Mother of God "Sovereign" (late 18th century, early 19th century)
People associate the revealed sign not only with the date of the 90th anniversary of the murder of the Royal Family (“His Blood is on us...”), but also with the current situation - a special time for us, when everyone has to actually confess their faith through deeds... Standing at the icon, I recalled the recently read material by E. Suvorov “Ural Gologatha”, in which the author writes about the Ekaterinburg resident Svyatoslav, who, by the will of God, slept in the Intercession Verkhoturye Monastery for three days and two nights in a row: “During his sleep, he saw in the dazzling heavenly glory The Queen of Heaven herself with a huge army of angels and saints. Among them was Emperor Nicholas II with his August Family and other members of the House of Romanov. During the conversation, the Emperor showed the place where the Church on the Blood was erected. Svyatoslav saw blood around the temple and how people passing by carried it on the soles of their shoes throughout the city, without noticing it. On Ganina Yama he was shown grass - not green at all, but scarlet with blood. And Svyatoslav thought: “Why don’t people passing by see all this?” “And at that very moment,” says Svyatoslav, “I heard: “Bring repentance!”
17.06.2012
Last fall, a great shrine found its home in Ukraine - the miraculous image of the Bleeding Savior. This unique icon is located in the convent of the Athos Icon Mother of God in the Kipyachee tract in the village of Chopovichi, Zhitomir region. Her journey to Polesie was ten years long.
At the beginning of 2000, in one of the houses in the village of Derzhavino, Orenburg region, an event occurred that is difficult to comprehend with the mind - droplets of blood appeared on the image of the savior on the forehead of the Lord, which had a characteristic tart smell. Chemical and medical examinations of this fluid showed that it was real human blood. While the icon was being studied, it continued to exude drops of blood, and today the image of Christ is completely covered with thick streaks.
In recent years, this icon has already been received by believers from many countries around the world. Miraculous healings from illnesses were recorded near her. And today this miraculous image of Jesus Christ is in the convent in honor of the Athos Icon of the Mother of God in the Kipyachee tract in the Malinsky district of the Zhitomir region.
The confessor of the monastery, Archpriest Roman (Baranovsky), says:
- Patriarch Alexy venerated this icon and 12 priests served near it. With the blessing of the Patriarch, a blood test was done from this icon in Moscow, the examination was carried out for the second time in Lugansk, and the third time in Romania. The blood turned out to be group 4, just like on the Shroud of Turin. After this, Patriarch Alexy blessed that the icon of the Savior be taken throughout Russia, so that it would testify that we are crucifying Jesus Christ with our sinful lives, that we are worse than the Pharisees, because, knowing Christ, we continue to crucify Him.
Each diocese invited this icon at the metropolitan level. Metropolitan Agafangel prayed before the icon of the Savior, Bishop Onuphry wept before it, Bishop Mark of Berlin carried this icon in his arms, Metropolitan Philaret of Minsk himself carried it into the temple. We met this icon in Bulgaria, Serbia, Moldova, Turkey, Hungary, it is known in all Orthodox countries. Count Nikolai Vorontsov invited this icon to Jerusalem. Metropolitan Philotheus of Thessaloniki came to the icon from Greece. Then he talked about it on Greek television.
The mystery and mystery for everyone is why this icon is now in our monastery of the Mother of God of Athos, and not in the Lavra or the capital’s cathedral, why nun Angelina bequeathed it to our monastery, which is just developing and is located in the forest, where there are virtually no benefits of civilization ?
Before coming to us, the icon of the Savior traveled for 10 years. Our sisters took her from Brest in Belarus. They were transported across the border in three cars. When the icon was placed in the car, everyone smelled fresh blood. Bishop Vissarion met this icon with tears in his eyes. The head of the Afghan soldiers of Kyiv carried the icon in his arms and said that he had to carry the wounded in his arms, but for the first time he carried a wounded icon in his arms.
Many healings have already occurred near our icon. In Chernivtsi, a case was recorded when a girl who had not walked since birth stood up and kissed an icon; a young man’s kidney began to work, although doctors were already preparing him for surgery.
You can write whole books about healing near an icon, but the main miracle is when people, after spending some time next to it, change and repent of their sins. The head of the gynecological department of one of the Kyiv hospitals testified that when she kissed this icon, she saw the blood of children killed due to abortions that were performed in her hospital. She repented and promised that she would no longer have abortions. But the greatest miracle is that people begin to see the light spiritually, become more humane, and their conscience awakens. Someone may doubt miracles, but when people change, it cannot be ignored. Possessed people cannot touch this icon; they say that it bakes and has the smell of blood.
I advise everyone to look at this icon and bring their relatives to it, people next to it become better, they change their lives, they stop being selfish. I invite you to the monastery of the Athos Icon of the Mother of God.