Icon of the Mother of God "Burning Bush" has a very unusual history of occurrence, which takes its roots in the many centuries ago, in the days of early Christianity.
little history
According to legend, near Sinai, right next to Mount Horeb, was green bush bush.And suddenly the bush was kindled into flame.Fire swept every leaf and every twig bush.Especially in this spectacle it was that the plant was burning but was not consumed.
passing by the prophet Moses saw this miracle, he stopped in front of the flames and heard the voice of God, who told him that the Israelis will soon be freed from Egyptian captivity.
This Old Testament event can be found in the book of Exodus (Chapter 3 and 4).
Soon phenomenon seen by Moses, was called "Burning Bush" and was captured on the first icon of the same name.
In addition, after the above-described events right around the altar of the monastery of St. Catherine built a beautiful chapel.They say that under the altar are the roots of the same one biblical bush.
Icon "Burning Bush", the value of which is important for Christians to have been written just at the foot of the mountain, approximately at the place where the prophet saw a burning bush.
As this image was in Russia
In 1390, Palestinian monks were brought to Moscow this shrine.Today, the oldest icon of "Burning Bush", the value of which over time has not changed, is in the Annunciation Cathedral of the Moscow Kremlin.
Description image
This image of the Virgin has different versions, among which you can find Virgin, depicted in the bright flame that burns but does not burn it.And there are such where the Virgin Mary is depicted in the background of an octagonal star, formed from two quadrangles with sharp concave edges.One of the rectangles painted in green and symbolizes the bush bush and the other red, which represents fire.
In the oldest icons you can see almost a literal image of what happened: green bush thorns, enveloped in flames, and above it stands the Virgin Mary with the infant Jesus in her arms.Near the bush kneeling prophet Moses.Our Lady of Miracles
Icon "Burning Bush", the importance of which for Christians after so many centuries, has not changed, has many legends about the miracles associated with it.
One of these signs was the incident that occurred in the years 1820-1821.In the small town of Slavyansk began to occur frequent fires, which have been the cause of someone's burning.Outlaw could not catch.
Once some old lady-parishioner had a dream in which the Virgin Mary came to her and said that the fires will stop if it is written in this city icon "Burning Bush".Its importance as a way of preserving fire and various disasters caused by lightning or fire, has long been known.
old woman told of her dream to the local archpriest, and soon was written way.What was the surprise of the people, when after the prayer icon "Burning Bush" was read, found the culprit, the culprit rather, arson!She turned out to be a local resident Moor, who was suffering from dementia.She came out of the crowd, confessed everything, and more fire did not happen.
This case is not unique.There are stories and other miracles that have occurred because of this image.
Also escape from the fire, known to help some cases of icons with natural disasters and fires are not related.For example, after unremitting prayers to the "Burning Bush" was released wrongfully convicted Dmitry Koloshin, who served as a groom of the king Fedor Alekseevich.
