Orthodox Christians have long been honored not only Jesus Christ, but also the Virgin. The reverent attitude towards it found its embodiment in the seven hundreds of icons depicting the Queen of Heaven as one and the Divine Son. Even the very first temple in Russia, consecrated in 996, was named in honor of the Virgin. A lot of hymns and prayers, contacting the Most Holy Virgin Mary, fill the hearts of believers with love and hope, and already the second millennium gives people salvation, healing and happiness not one miraculous icon of God's Mother. Georgian icon of the Mother of God is no exception. About her amazing properties and will be told later.

Features of writing Georgian icon of the Mother of God

When we have before our eyes there is a waist icon of the Georgian Mother of God, we can define characteristics Her writing. All images located in the ark of the icon (deepening in the center of the board) occupy a large part of it and are built as a triangle, the longer side of which falls on the tilt of the head of the Virgin in the side of the Boggobin. The baby highly raises the desnice, blessing mother and all people. Scroll, which God's Son. Holds in the left hand, symbolizes Old Testamentwhich will be complemented by the Savior. The right leg of Christ is located under the left, and its nude sole is visible.

The Mother of God, depicted frontal, slightly turned his head to a seated son and bent toward him, supporting his left hand. Baby face is also facing mother whose right handPointing on Jesus, denotes for believers the path to salvation. A special feature of this icon is the characteristic way of the image of the Maforia, falling from the head of the Mother of God so that the folds of the triangular plot of Hiton of blue color And symmetrical sharpening capes of another color. Those who constantly go to church, the icons of the Georgian Mother of God saw mainly in large sizes. Temples make it possible to consider them in detail. -

When and who was captive icon

Abbas Mirza, better known in world history as Shah Abbas, joined the Iranian throne at the end of the 16th century. There is a legend that on the day when the great despot was born, in Georgia, due to a strong earthquake, the abode of St. George was collected, which symbolized the huge losses, which the country suffered in the future from the actions of the Lord of Persia. Abbas, seeing the strengthening of the ties of Georgia and Russia, the threat to the Persian kingdom, organized a destructive campaign to the mountainous country in 1622.

He subjected her plunder and captured many values \u200b\u200band shrines for further selling them to foreign merchants. I got to him and the icon of the Georgian Mother of God. Three years later, her in the Persian Bazaar saw the order of the Russian Yaroslavl merchant Stefan Lazarev. Of course, a true Christian could not pass by a wonderful image and acquired an icon, despite its high price. The shrine immediately showed himself when the owner of the clerk Himu (in some sources - George, Gregory) Lytkin in a dream was a divine indication of the transfer of the icon into one of the monasteries of the Arkhangelsk province. Not knowing about the icon, the merchant did not give a dream to sleep and remembered it only in 1629, when the clerk returned and showed it the image bought from the Persians.

The fate of the creation of Georgian icon painters in Russia

As it was ordered in a dream, Lykkin sent an icon on the Pinegu River to the Krasnogorsk Monastery, who was in the mountainous forest area and previously called Chernogorsk (formed in 1603). The Georgian image of God's Mother immediately showed a miraculous nature, healing from the deafness and blindness of the monk Pitirim. For further incomprehensible phenomena of icon, the princess decree and the blessing of the Patriarch Nikon in 1650 awarded his own day of reverence - September 4. The miraculous work of Georgian icon painters has long traveled around the country, having visited Siberian cities. And everywhere the Virgin was healed by truly believers, as evidenced by church documents of those years. Unfortunately, the original icon was lost when in the 20s of the 20th century, the Krasnogorsk monastery was closed. After his discovery in 1946, the icon was used in the procession of the cross move, which the Moscow Patriarch reported the Bishop of Arkhangelsky, but since then the image has disappeared and nothing else was discovered.

The very first list of icons

Parishioners, good history Christianities and Orthodox shrines, always know what icon should be handled with one or another request to visit the temple. The icons of the Georgian Mother of God today in the form of lists are stored in various churches of our country. Many of them, as the original, are miraculous. For the first time, a copy of the image of the Virgin from Georgia was written in 1654 in Moscow by order of the artisan of Gabriel Evdokimov, who showed his gratitude for the healing of a seriously ill son. This list was transferred to the church on the clay, which is now known as the Church of the Holy Trinity (Niktnikov Lane). Icon turned out to be miraculous and helped the inhabitants of the capital to avoid terrible disease, when Moscow covered the epidemic of plague.

What other lists from the original Georgian image are known

Incredibly Slavnya Rafa Georgian Icon of the Mother of God. She appeared in the Kazan diocese in 1661. Then Metropolitan of Lavrenty ordered the icon of the famous icon painter. For the image in Rafa Motherod's desert, a separate church was built, and after bringing the shrine from the artist, it began to create real wonders, carrying healing blind, chrome and mentally ill.

Another list of the image of Our Lady from the Georgian original appeared in the 17th century in the Alekseevsky women's monastery, which was at the Prechistensky Boulevard. One of the sick Inokin wanted to turn to the image that was in the temple at the barbaric gate, but no one could bring him. Then the monk who appeared in a dream, said that somewhere in the depths of the temple there is a list of Georgian icon. After a short search in one of the walls, a siest was discovered with the image, which immediately healed the monk. Icon was concluded in the precious robe by the command of Emperor Alexei Mikhailovich with the blessing of Patriarch Nikon. In the 19th century, the temple was postponed to the Red Selo, and the list of icons found in the monastery will be honored in the Church of the Resurrection of Christ on Sokolnicheskaya Square.

Existing templesDedicated miraculous icon

The churches wearing the name of the Georgian shrine can be found in many cities of our country and even abroad. Rafa Cathedral is the most famous. It was built with a male Bogoroditsky Monastery in 1842 specifically in honor of the wonderful icon. Parishioners celebrate the extraordinary beauty of the temple, the fertile atmosphere and the unique energy coming from the ancient icons. The Georgian Icon of the Mother of God in the Rafa Monastery is very famous, and the Cathedral visits many tourists. Therefore, if there is a desire to stay with the shrine almost alone, it is recommended to come there early in the morning.

Another acting church of the Georgian icon of the Mother of God is located in the village of Yakshino in the Moscow region. The temple is very beautiful, built in the 18th century, but during the Soviet power he was blown up. Recovery began in the 90s, worships resumed since 2004. Before the revolution, the church had a miraculous icon of the Georgian Virgin, today there is such an icon there too. Many temples, chapels, chapels dedicated to the wonderful image, are in Chuvashia, the Republic of Tatarstan, Tverskaya, Ryazan, Kaluga and other regions of the Russian Federation.

Where else were churches dedicated to the Georgian icon of the Virgin

In the Tver region since 1714, Gorbasyevskaya (village Gorbasyevo) was operated by the Church, built in the name of the icon described by us. It is said that the temple was built by a rich merchant from Georgia, lost in the surrounding forests. Prayers to the Mother of God helped him get to the village, thanks to this miracle and the church appeared. In 1860, her old wooden building was decided to replace stone. The temple ceased to act in the 30s of the last century. The old church of the icon of the Georgian Mother of God is in the village of Vasilyevskoe Shuisky district. True, now the temple complex, which includes the church, is in the launched state, and the ancient icons, which were iconostasis, are stored in the Tretyakov Gallery and the Russian Museum.

What are the icon pray

In the gospel, it is not in vain that people get from God "by the faith of their own." It has long been noticed that among thousand parishioners and pilgrims, from whose mouth prayer icon of the Georgian Mother of God, the happiness of healing is far from all, but only those whose souls are truly clean and ready for mercy. It is believed that beautiful image is able to give recovery to those who suffer from diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, various tumors, ailments, affecting eyes, teeth and ears, from obsession unclean power. With special reverence rushed to the image of a woman who was diagnosed with infertility. A very strong considered a prayer, uttering by a person on his birthday, which coincides or is close to the day of honoring a certain image. Many helps and have already helped the Georgian icon of the Mother of God, which believers are praying, already written. At the end there is a story about how they usually do.

What you need to talk in prayer

Prayer may sound differently, most importantly, the words go from the heart. With a request to bestow the ability to conceive the fact that the Queen of Heavenly, who hesitates the molts of her terrestrial, which possesses the miraculous forces, heals from the ailments and the dominance of demons, makes sorrow, relieves the offended, saves from misfortunes and clears from sins. They ask the Mary's virgin about that she resolve a misfortune couple from infertility, stood up for them before the divine her son and prayed for those who worshiping, hoping for her and tirelessly chasing her glory. Some prayers highlight the role of Jesus, the petition of the Mother of God in front of which can heal or get rid of troubles. Soviving says that he himself may not be worthy to be heard by the Lord, but his mother, never turning out of a simple man, can convey to his son even the most quiet, but sincere prayer. They ask God to live through the Viriya Viriya to be praying to live in piety and light of the commandments. Evidence of gratitude to many people for miracles, granted through a unique image, are cross, koimy in the temples of the icons of the Virgin. What and wherever the praying Christian is a pretty virgin, an unbreakable faith of his and a clean soul will lead to a truly miracle.

(holiday 22 Aug.), miraculous image. According to the legend, G. and. Persians from Georgia in 1622, during the conquest of the country with Shah Abbas I, in 1625 redeemed by Stefan Lazarev, the clerk of Yaroslavl merchant Grigory Lykina, who was in Persia trade Affairs. Upon returning Lazarev to Yaroslavl in 1629, Lykkin, seeing the icon, remembered his former mysterious suggestion to send the shrine to Chernogorsk (Krasnogorsk) Mont-ry on Pinege (near Arkhangelsk), to Rus to Rus. merchants. Having delivered an icon in Mont-ry, he built the church in his plan, donated to her the utensils and the meeting of books (Smirnov. 1998), most of the requalued himself.

Upon arrival, wonderful healing began on the arrival of the icon. In 1658, by decree of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich and Patriarch Nikon, the celebration of the icon "For the sake of her wonders" was established on the day of bringing to Mont-Pie. In 1698, this image was resolved every year to bring in Arkhangelsk "For the sake of the consecration of hail and Christ-loving peoples requiring God and Her Virgin mercy"; Also, the icon was worn in Vologda, led. Ustyug, Pereslavl-Zalessky, Moscow and Siberia, on Lena.

Icon disappeared after the ceiling of the monastery (1920-1922), later returned to Mont-ry: in the 1946 report to the Moscow Patriarchate EP. Arkhangelsk Leonthy (Smirnova) is mentioned that G. and. They wore during the cross move, which was committed in 1946 in Arkhangelsk. Further fate and. Unknown.

A special milestone in history and glorification of the icon was its attributes to Moscow in 1654. The icon was placed in C. St. Trinity in Niktnikov, where the Yaroslavian commercially enthusias had merchants, ktititors built on their agents of the temple (1628-1651). It is believed that the icon was brought to rejugate and imposing a new rhyme.

At this time in Moscow was the epidemic of plague. Looking for help from icons received healing. Among them - Silver Affairs Master Gabriel Evdokimov, on whose request before the icon was coughing at home Prayer, as a result of which his son recovered. Gabriel Evdokimov ordered for c. CV. Trinity list from G. and., K-ry was placed in the central iconostaste to the left of the royal gates. The victims of the icon considered it by the work of the "first-class Izograph of the Tsarist School" (Trenev. 1903. P. 21), I. Tokmakov believed that the author of this list was Simon Ushakov (Tokmakov. 1896. P. 120).

Another list of G. and. It was placed in North. Nikolsky chassion; The church was consecrated in honor of the Georgian icon of the Mother of God, which was reflected in the name of the alley leading from the temple on the barbarquarka.

To the 250th anniversary of the glorification of the icon (1904) in the lower room of the Church for the means of an honorary citizen of the city of A. V. Alexandrova, the famous came in honor of the Georgian icon of the Mother of God.

In Moscow, the Moscow Alekseevsky on Prechistenka since 1654 was also known G. and., Standing in the main crossed church. The emergence of her in Mont-Rea is legend: a sick nun appeared in a dream and said that in Mont-ry, it was not necessary to bring the image from C. St. Trinity, because in the monastery there is the same forgotten icon. The image was found, and after prayer, the nun recovered before him. The famous icon was decorated with precious salary for the Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich and Patriarch Nikon. According to Options of Alekseevsky Months of 1757, the salary of this icon is reconstructed (Romanesky. 1903). Celebration icon 15 Aug. In Mont-Rea, the sanctification of water and the sprinkling of the keys in the memory of the deliverance from the plague in 1654

Preserved originating from the Alekseevsky Months G. and. (XVII century?), Transferred from closed mon-gone, that in a red village, in the temple of the Resurrection of Christ in Sokolniki.

Another Moscow list and. was in c. Conduct on the Vorontsov Field, K-Parades, also sometimes called "Georgian", like the nearby alley. In 1706, a precious Kyot was created for the icon of Paraskeva Paraskeva. After the closure of the temple of the icon was preserved and in the present. time is located in C. sv. Martin confessor at Taganka (Kozarzhevsky. 2005).

Miraculous list of G. and. From 1661 he was in the Kazan diocese in Rafa Viroditsky is empty. To write this image Miter. Kazan Lavrenty sent one of the best iconographic in Krasnogorsk Mont-Pie. The list of Raifskaya is empty. Also famous for miracles and solemnly honored. Annually the procession was made in Sviyazhsk to the evening worship, and the next day - on the river and around the city. Within 2 weeks, the image was wore houses and surrounding villages, but by 22 Aug. The shrine was returned to Raifa empty. Just like the primordial and subsequent lists, this list was decorated with a rich rhea. Icon has been preserved after the closure of the MON-RAM, and according to its resumption in the 90s. XX century placed in c. In honor of the Georgian icon of the Mother of God (built on the project M. P. Corinthsky in 1835-1842).

In 1698, the blessing archive. Kholmogorsk and the important Athanasius (Lyubimov) by the caretaker of the Moscow typography F. Polycarpov were compiled by the canon and tropharov G. and. There is also a service known on the list of legends about the icon, and prayer, K-Paradas read before the icon (list 1654) in the Alekseevsky Mont-Ree in Moscow, where it was honored by the 15 Aug. In memory of the wonderful gain of the list.

Loss of the primitiveness of G. and. Krasnogorsk Mont-ry (Description Sound. In the monastic opisi - Macarius (Mirolyubov). 1880; Vasilyev. 1880; Chelmogorsky. 1902) Partly reimbursed by the list of 1707, filled with a pledged Isograph of the Kremlin Armory Chamber, Cyril Ulanov with the son of Ivan (43 × 30 cm; Origin is unknown, GTG) (Antonova, Monsuva. Catalog. T. 2. No. 907; Miraculous image: Icons of Our Lady In the Tretyakov Gallery. M., 1999. No. 16). On the lower field, the inscription icons: "This holy Mother of God is written by measure and drawing what is in the Montenegrin Monastery, the name of Georgian." Below is an inscription with the names of masters, made smaller letters. 4 large layers are mounted in the icon, filled with mastic; Holes retained traces of salary attachment. The iconography of the list of 1707. Coincides with all the well-known early images of G. and. This variant of odigitria is close to the Ivo perivplot. The Virgin is depicted frontally, with a slightly turned and tendered to the baby head; Maforia floors diverge, opening the neck of Hiton; Hiton's bordering, mafhoria and shots are decorated with pearls and precious stones. Left hand in traditions. The position of the Virgin Mary supports the baby sitting and turned to her, the right - in the gesture of the prayer (as a sign of worshiping son). The baby's head is slightly thrown back, the right blessing hand is raised vertically, in the left - scroll. The feature of the facilities of the city and. It is an image of the right leg of a baby, leaning under the left nude outsole (this item is not characteristic of perivleplove and other than on the Tikhvin icon of the Mother of God). Our Lady and Baby clothing at 1707 are separated by a solid assist, which is characteristic of the works of royal isograms. Perhaps this feature is consistent with the precious continuous rice of the primitiveness, known in the monastic opisi ("covered the entire image of silver with a sharper: the wints, the middle and the fields, and the entire salary of scratch silver is gilded" - Macarius (Mirolyubov). 1880). If the probation has been preserved characteristic for cargo. Icons are solidly chased salary, it determined the feature of the decoration of the lists of the assist and the precious rize, leaving the unclipped only personal, as in the cargo. icons.

Izov G. and. He has among the monuments of Georgia X-XVI centuries. The analogies and are widespread, especially in Kakheti (Chinubacvili g. N. Gruce. Checked art: Research. In history. Middle Ages. Art. Tbilisi, 1959. No. 46, 148, 182, 546, 555; Guseva. 1995).

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The Georgian Icon of the Mother of God is truly legendary: she remembers the raids of the cerema-pagans for the newly born monastery, and the terrible fire of 1689, which destroyed all the monastery buildings, and the cruel persecution of the revolution era.

Initially, this image was in Georgia, but during the conquest of the country in 1622 by the Persian Shah Abbas Icon, together with other values \u200b\u200bwas taken to Persia, where enterprising Persians organized trade in Orthodox shrines. 3 years after these events, Grigory Lytkina, Grigory Lykin, Stefan Lazarev, who was in Persia for commercial cases, brought the Mother Georgian icon of God and offered it to buy it. Lazarev could not miss the opportunity to buy out the Orthodox shrine and, despite the high cost icon, decorated with silver and gold, acquired it.

At this time, the merchant Lykkin in Sleeping Revelation learned about the acquisition of his clerk and received an indication of over to give the shrine to the Krasnogorsk monastery, which is on the Pinege River, near Arkhangelsk. Initially, the monastery was named Chernogorsk, because it was built on the mountainous, darkness, surrounded by dense forests of the terrain, known as the Black Mountain. The merchant soon forgot about this revelation, but when after 4 years his clerk returned to his homeland and showed the acquired icon, a pious merchant remembered the vision and immediately went on a trip to the Arkhangelsk province. He handed the shrine of the monks of the Krasnogorsk monastery, where the church is building specifically for her and supplies it necessary utensils and books.

Icon was miraculous. Monk Residents - blind and deaf pitirim after the prayer in front of this way it takes sight and begins to hear. In 1658, Patriarch Nikon, in his exception to Metropolitan Novgorod, studied the legends on miracles from the image of the Georgian Mother of God and set him a celebration on August 22.

Glory about the Georgian icon reached the farthest wings of Russian land. In the reign of Alexei Mikhailovich, the cross moves with a miraculous way were held not only on the main cities of Russia - Moscow, Ustyugu, Vologda, Pereyaslavly-Zalessky, etc., but came out even to the Lena River in Siberia. The certificate was preserved that in 1698 it was decided every year to bring the holy icon in the city of Arkhangelsk "For the sake of the consecration of hail and Christ-loving peoples requiring God and Her Virgin mercy." At the same time, the canon icon was written by the Moscow Typography Theodore Polycarpov.

In the village of Klyucharev, Korchevsky County, Tverskaya Diocese, Georgian icon of God's Mothers, was surprisingly helped to get rid of the worm that had attacked on the seeded fields. During the procession with a way, the strongest rain went, which caused the worm from the ground, and the drove out of the huge quantities Birds missed him.

Original of the Georgian Icon of the Mother of God to this day, unfortunately, not preserved.

Ruins of the Krasnogorsk Monastery on the Pinege River, Arkhangelsk region

In the 20s of the last century, with the closure of the Krasnogorsk Monastery, the icon disappeared to appear for a while in 1946, when the monastery reopened. Then Arkhangelsk Bishop Leonty said in the Moscow Patriarchate that the icon participated in the procession in Arkhangelsk. There is information that until the end of the 50s it was in the Tretyakov Gallery. However, the revision of 1964, conducted in the Gallery Foundations, did not find the image. Or he was abducted or sold by the Soviet government abroad. The facts of such a sale of museum values \u200b\u200btook place in Soviet history.

In the State Tretyakov Gallery The exact dimensional list of the icon of 1707, made by Cyril Ulanov - the Izographer of the Kremlin Armory Chamber, together with the son of Ivan. The inscription on the bottom field of the image says: " it was written by this Holy Mother of God the image of measure and inquiring what in the Montenegrin monastery, the name of Georgian" The icon is 4 packs.

Accurate dimensional list of icons, 1707

Other lists were made from the icons, some of which were worshiped by miraculous. Three of them are in Moscow.

Church of the Holy Life Trinity in Nicnics (Church of the Georgian Mother of God) (Niktnikov Lane, 3)

In the temple of the Trinity of the Library in Nicnics There is a list of 1654, made by allegedly Simon Ushakov - "first-class insign of royal school." In this year, the sea ulcer epidemic was rampant in Moscow and the Georgian Icon of God's Mother of God was brought from the Krasnogorsk Monastery for the "poning of painting and the imposition of a new ride." Icon was delivered in the Trinity Church in Nicnics. The list from her ordered silver deeds Master Gabriel Evdokimov after after a molding with this icon in front of a serious sick son healed.

Another miraculous list earlier belonged to the Alekseevsky female monastery, located on the site of the current christmas Savior Temple.

Alekseevsky Women's Monastery on the site of the current Chisty of the Savior

Its acquisition dates back to 1654 and is associated with the same ulcer epidemic. The monastery of the monastery, remembering the miraculous Georgian icon, which was at this time in Moscow, wanted to ask her about healing. And on the night there was a vision of an unknown monk, said: "Why are you sad about what you can't bring the Georgian icon of the Mother of God? In your monastery, in the cave, there is exactly the same icon, find it - and you will see the mercy of God. Through this icon will be healing not only to you, but also many other people. " The sisters of the nun after long searches saw in the church rhiznica built a wardrobe, similar to a cave, where the holy image was discovered. After the prayer, he recovered in front of him, and soon the plague in Moscow went to no. According to the command of the king, Alexei Mikhailovich, an amazing icon was decorated with precious salary. Now List is located in the church of the Resurrection of Christ in Sokolniki.

Church of the Resurrection of Christ (in Sokolniki)

Icon of the Georgian Mother of God in the temple of the Resurrection of Christ in Sokolniki

In the memory of getting rid of the plague in 1654, the celebration of the icon was additionally established on August 15.

The third list was in the church of the Interior of the Mother of God on the Vorontsov field. Miracles from this icon discouraged her pious reverence both in the simple people and among the highest persons. So the sovereign of Empress Anna John called an icon in St. Petersburg, where she was decorated with an abundance of precious stones in the highest order. I also used the entrance to the sovereign of Emperor Alexander the First, who, visiting Moscow, repeatedly prayed in front of her, and once learned that the icon was robbed, ordered to deliver a veteran soldier to the holy image.

During the persecution of the beginning of the 20th century, the Mother of God's cover on the Vorontsov field was destroyed, all jewels were removed from the icons, and the image itself was moved to the Church of the Holy Rhinestone Apostles Peter and Paul on Jauze. Currently, this Holy Image is in the temple of St. Martin's confessor, that on ul. Solzhenitsin, In the advance of the Georgian icon of the Mother of God.

View of the temple of St. Martin Confessor

Church of St. Martin Confessor in Moscow
(Ul. Alexander Solzhenitsyn, former B. Communist, D.15., m. "Taganskaya" or "Marxist")

In the temple

The image of the Georgian Icon of the Mother of God in the temple of St. Martin's confessor acquired a new robe in the throne holiday on September 4, 2009

Another very readable list from the Georgian image is stored In Raiforous Magazinsky Monastery of the Kazan Diocese. Here, before 1670, the Cathedral Church was built in the name of the Georgian Icon of the Mother of God, in which Metropolitan of Lavrenty ordered one of the best Kazan icon painters with an accurate copy with a miraculous icon. How old monastic traditions tell, already during the transfer of the icons from Kazan to Rafa deserts began to occur with wonderful healing: the swollen came on the blind, the cleansing came, and the chrome received correction.

Raifsky Bogoroditsky Monastery

Raifsky monastery

In 1689, a huge misfortune occurred in Rafa Resident - a fire. Not all sacred items and things managed to endure from temples and keels. To the great happiness, the miraculous Georgian icon of the Mother of God was saved. Having lost herringbones, some of the monasters went to other monasteries, and some remained to live on a ash region. Seeing such devotion to faith in the fishery of God, Metropolitan Kazan Adrian decided to restore the abode, but to do in stone - like the Moscow Resurrection Monastery (new Jerusalem).

In the temple

Miraculous Georgian Icon of the Mother of God in Rafa Monastery

List of second half of the XVII century. (Raifsky Bogoroditsky Monastery)

The list, which is currently in Raif's monastery, is the most ancient famous.

According to the iconographic type, the Georgian icon of God's Mother of God refers to the type of odiritria ("Guide").

Iconographically Georgian image is similar to the Jerusalem icon of the Mother of God and refers to the type Odihythrius. Feature of the image of Jesus Christ is right leg, crumpled nude soles outside. The iconography of the Georgian icon has analogues among other Georgian icon-painted monuments of the X-XVI centuries and was particularly distributed in Kakheti.

People's Molver attributes a miraculous image of the Georgian Most Holy Mother of God to heal from many incurable diseases, for example, from the diseases of the stomach, body tumors, various eye and dental diseases, release obsessed with unclean spirits, as well as help women suffering from infertility.

Tropar, voice 4th
The insidency of Krasnogorsk's abode of light literally bouncer, and I will face Raifskaya Pushtyn, Yako I'll drop the sunny, from the east, who, perceive, Vladychitsa, the miraculous Icon, Heruget of the MGLU of temptations and misfortunes from glaring: Robby the inhabitants and all the Christian countries from all the enemy And save our soul, Jaco the merciful intercession of the genus of Christian.

Kondak, voice 8
You choosing from all kinds of God's Mother of God, / Thanksaful singing, we bring to the coming of the honest icons, Rabi Your, // Yes, I call: Rejoice, the bride is nonsense.

In 1622, the Persian Shah Abbas conquered Georgia, capturing many shrines of Georgian land for the sale of Russian merchants, exiting Persia. Among the many stolen things were the Georgian icon of the Mother of God, decorated with silver and gold.
One Persian trader suggested her Claudist of the merchant Igor Lykina, Stefan Lazarev, who was then trading in Persia. Stephen gladly bought the miraculous image of the Virgin in 1625 and kept him for some time.
At this time, the Yaroslavsky merchant Egor Lykin saw this icon in the night dream and he was discovered that she was at his clerk Lazarev, and at the same time received the order to send the Georgian icon in the Krasnogorsk monastery founded in 1603 in the Arkhangelsk Diocese. About it revelation Lykkin for a while forgot. But when Stephen returned to his homeland in 1629 and showed him an icon, the merchant immediately remembered the vision. He immediately went with the Georgian icon in Dvina's Days to the Montenegrin monastery, where he was performed by a previously visible omen. The Montenegrin monastery was named because it was built on a mountainous, gloomy, surrounded by dense forests of the terrain, known as the Black Mountain. The name "Krasnogorsk Monastery" The abode received this only subsequently.
Already by the middle of 17th century, Georgian icon was revered as a miraculous. So, with the very introduction of it in the abode, he was healing the monk Pitirim, who did not see anything for a long time and did not hear. In 1658, Patriarch Nikon, then the former Metropolitan Novgorod, explored the legends about the wonders from this image of the Virgin and established the celebration of him on August 22 (on September 4 in a new style). How far was commonly common about the Georgian icon, it is seen from the fact that Alexei Mikhailovich's reign was worn by various cities of Russia for example, Ustyug, Vologda, Pereyaslav-Zalessky and many others, the goddes of the Lena came to Siberia . Document 1698 says that "through the image of the Georgian Mostly Virgin Mary and now the wonders and healing coming with faith." In 1698, this image was decided to bring this image in the city of Arkhangelsk "for the sake of the consecration of hail and Christ-loving peoples requiring God and Her God's mercy." At the same time, by the blessing of the Archbishop of the Kholmogorsk and the most important atthanasia, the caretaker of the Moscow Typography Fedor Polycarpov was drawn up canon in honor of the Georgian Mother of God.

How do antique monastic legends tell, already during the transfer of icons from Kazan in Rafa desert Wonderful healing of the weacleness began to occur: the blind was returned to the blind, the cleansing came, and the chrome received correction. Thus, this icon from the very first of its appearance in Rafa desert received fame miraculous. He having heard about it, the inhabitants of Sviyazhsk asked the lord of the resolution so that this image would be brought to them. And since then, the icon of the Georgian Mother of God began to rise from place on July 31 and to be brought to Sviyazh to the evening. Another day, after the liturgy in the Bogoroditsky monastery, they organized a congestion on the Pike River and appreciated the image around the entire city. Then the residents of Sviyazhsk were allowed to take a miraculous icon on the houses, and from 6 to 21 August, it was solemnly rushed through the surrounding villages and returned to Raifsky monastery . But there were cases when residents of individual villages turned to the abbot of the monastery with a request to let go of the Mother Georgian Mother of God to them and in aphirtic time. It happened in Vasilyevo village on June 24, 1830. This is what the legend that came to the present day tells.

"On the very day when the icon was wearing from home to the house and the mulaberry happened about the rain, suddenly found a terrible cloud. Shed heavy rain with a hail, and to the surprise of all the inhabitants, without the slightest harm on their fields at her sown bread, meanwhile, A large hail in an extraordinary quantity and a magnitude fell near the fields in the forest, so the tree branches were laid out. "

Miraculous icon The Mother of the Mother "Georgian" ... Probably there is no one who, extinguishing in Raifa, would not bow to this image. Before him, warm prayers of pilgrims from different parts of Russia and other countries of the world are ascended. And for all people coming with faith and love, opens their heart the Major Ladyman!

In 2017, 25 years from the day of the repayment of the shrine in Raifsky the Bogoroditsky male monastery.

In 1622, the Persian Shah Abbas conquered Georgia, capturing many shrines of Georgian land for the sale of Russian merchants, exiting Persia. Among the many stolen things were the Georgian icon of the Mother of God, decorated with silver and gold. One Persian trader suggested her Claudist of the merchant Igor Lykina, Stefan Lazarev, who was then trading in Persia. Stephen gladly bought the miraculous image of the Virgin in 1625 and kept him for some time.

At this time, the Yaroslavl merchant Yegor Lykin saw this icon in the night dream, and he was discovered that she was at His Clauser Lazarev, and at the same time received the order to send the Georgian icon in the Krasnogorsk Monastery founded in 1603 in the Arkhangelsk Diocese. About this revelation Lykkin for a while forgot. But when Stephen returned to his homeland in 1629 and showed him an icon, the merchant immediately remembered the vision. He immediately went with the Georgian icon in the Dvina limits in the Montenegrin monastery, where he was performed by a previously visible omen.

In 1650, Patriarch Nikon, then the former Metropolitan Novgorodsky, examined the legends about the wonders from this image of the Virgin and established the celebration of him on August 22 (September 4 in a new style).

After 1661, when the main construction of the Raif monastery began, Kazan Metropolitan of Lavrenty wished to give the Blessing of the Daef Georgian Icon of the Mother of God to the blessing of the desert. He sent one of the best icon painters in the village of Black Mountain, located in 16 versts from the city of Kholmogor Arkhangelsk province to withdraw an accurate list with a miraculous icon. Its selection was not accidental. Before appointment in Kazan, he served in the north - in the important monastery, not far from the Montenegrin region (Arkhangelsk region). At that time, it was there that was this miraculous icon. As far as the glory was far from the Georgian Icon, it is seen from the fact that Alexei Mikhailovich's reign was carried in different cities of Russia, for example, to Moscow, Ustyug, Vologda, Pereyaslavl-Zalessky and many others. Cross moves with her reached the Lena River in Siberia. The document of 1698 says that "through the image of the Georgian Mother of God, and now wonders and healing coming with faith". In 1698 it was decided: every year this image is brought to the city of Arkhangelsk "for the sake of the consecration of hail and the Christ-loving peoples requiring God and Her God's mercy." At the same time, on the blessing of the Archbishop of the Kholmogorsk and the important Athanasius, the caretaker of the Moscow Typography Fedor Polycarpov was compiled a canon in honor of the Georgian Mother of God.

By bringing the list of icons to Kazan, the Metropolitan of Lavrenty, accompanied by the heads and countless people, personally trained the icon in the newly rebuilt Raifsky monastery. As the antique monastic traditions tell, already during the transfer of the icons from Kazan in Rafa deserts began to occur with wonderful healing of the weakness: the eyes were discovered blindly, the cleansing came the blind, and the chrome received correction. Thus, this icon from the very first of its appearance in Rafa desert received fame miraculous.

The board on which the holy icon is written is in the embroidery 9 and in the width of 7 vershkov. Dark icon. On the back, in the corners, on the silver salary, which covers the whole board, depicts evangelicals, and in the middle there is an inscription: "The image of the Most of the Mother of God Georgian" from below: "1720. July 24, this image is built on the blessing of the great Mr. Hurting Tikhon, Metropolitan Kazansky. " The inscription refers to the decoration of the icon in the Tikhon Metropolitan. The crowns on the Savior and the Mother of God, as well as the crowns, shine with precious stones. In total, more than 10 thousand rubles were worth more than 10 thousand rubles with the pearls and other decorations of Riza for the estimation of jewelers of that time. The icon had a silver ark weighing 7 pounds of 90 spools. In 1876, all Riza again adolescent in the Kazan Bogoroditsky monastery under the supervision of IMUGENIA ANTINY.

When closing the Rafa monastery during the time of godless Soviet power, the icon saved the scientists of the University of Kazan. Having found it among the garbage on the floor of a ruined temple and transferring to the temple of the Saints of Yaroslavl Wonderworkers at the Arsk Cemetery in the city of Kazan, where she was all the time before the revival of the monastery.

The return of the icon took place at first worship in the temporary temple of the reborn Resident - August 14, 1992 on the holiday Origin of honest trees of the life-giving Cross of the Lord (according to legend, on the same day the first temples of the monastery were consecrated during its foundation). He was headed by the Bishop of Kazan and Mari Anastasiya, a lot of clergy gathered. Pre-Secretary assumed solemnly with the godfather move to the icon from Kazan and properly prepared to this. Therefore, he did not think to bring it to Raifsky monastery on the first divine liturgy. But before the trip, I decided to take the shrine in the monastery. Icon was placed at the top of the iconostasis and, in order to avoid theft, it loosely screwed the thick wire so that it was not easy to remove it from there. But when the bishop of Anastasiya himself rose by potted stairs Top of iconostasis, icon to the general amazement freely and easily went to him in hand.

Immediately after the first liturgy in Rafa monastery, a prayer service was served in front of the Georgian icon of the Mother of God. So it settled that, and the revival of this abode was marked by the return miraculous image. The Mother of God did not want to leave his abode for one day and appeared there again.