2023-11-04 07:08:00
Moscow. November 4. INTERFAX.RU – Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Rus’ presented to believers the original Kazan Icon of the Mother of God – an image that was considered lost more than a hundred years ago.
According to church tradition, the icon was in the militia of Minin and Pozharsky and helped liberate Moscow from the Poles at the beginning of the 17th century.
“This event can be attributed to historical events. We see before us the original of the miraculous image of the Kazan Mother of God, in front of which Pozharsky and Minin prayed and which saved our people from foreign intervention and unknown from what consequences of this intervention. This image is our national shrine,” – said the patriarch before the start of the liturgy in the Assumption Cathedral of the Kremlin on the occasion of the Day of the Kazan Icon.
According to the primate, experts concluded that this icon belongs to the era in which the Kazan image was created. “And since this icon is, as it were, an exact, most accurate copy of that created icon, it is absolutely obvious that two identical icons might not have been created at that time and that we are talking regarding a miraculous image, regarding the very image in front of which both Minin and Pozharsky prayed,” the patriarch is convinced.
He admitted that he did not immediately decide to announce this unique find, “but then I realized that it was impossible to hide this story, our people and the whole world should know regarding it.”
According to the patriarch, the icon was kept in the warehouse of his residence in Peredelkino among other images.
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