In Orthodoxy, the Mother of God the most revered saints.It helps people in all pious deeds, the icon of the Virgin is in any Orthodox home.And if the saint is usually depicted in any one way, the image of Our Lady of thousands.Icon of the Mother of God different names, to avoid confusion, but each has its own, peculiar only to her symptoms.Thus, even though a lot of icons, but still in the world of a certain amount, the Mother of God can not write whatever you like.
How were all these icons and what they are so many?Image of the Mother of God - the first icon of the Christian world.According to legend, the very first image of the Evangelist Luke wrote, and he wrote it with the original.But the rest of the image was not a copy of the first image.They appeared in the world in various ways: written painters, and then glorified by miracles, appeared in the most unexpected places (in such cases, the image is considered miraculous).
example, the Kazan icon of the Mother of God was found in the ashes, and the Theotokos of Tolga - on a branch of a tree, high above the heads of all the people.Such images are venerated since its acquisition, considered miraculous.
Tolga Icon of the Mother of God was found the Bishop Prokhorov, after a short time began to be built next to the monastery.
The icon itself is named after the place of the phenomenon and the present residence.It is not far from the little river was attained in the Tolga icon of the Mother of God of the Tolga.Since its been almost 700 years, the image is considered to be very ancient and valuable.
Tolga Before the revolution the monastery was a male, but in the decades since the beginning of perestroika, was restored as a female.The beginning of his revival was initiated at the beginning of the nineties, the community was going hard.But Theotokos of Tolga helps the sisters of the monastery.Gradually, all the material difficulties were overcome, the repair works are completed.Tolga icon - not the only relic of the monastery.Where the relics of St. Ignatius Brianchaninov whose books were re-issue in recent years.Now the icon of the Mother of God Tolga is located in the Yaroslavl region, Tolga monastery.In Soviet times, the icon was kept in the city museum, but in the nineties has been transferred back to the monastery.At first it was brought here on holidays: the image of an ancient and extremely valuable, so the transportation is carried out in a special machine to security.But now in the monastery managed to create the necessary storage conditions of this old icon.Therefore, the icon of the Mother of God Tolga are now resides in the temple, and it can be applied on any day.
monastery lives measured life, before the icon of the Tolga daily read hymns, prayers are served before the relics, the psalms read incessantly.Sisters-nuns recorded testimonies of miracles that have occurred through the prayers before the icon of the Tolga.
Every year is celebrated in the monastery Tolgin day - 21 August, the day of special reverence Tolga icon of the Mother of God.Many pilgrims flocked here.After the Liturgy, the sisters handed out pine cones from the relic park - the cedar in the monastery, are treated to the monastery kvass.Everyone who comes to this day to pray to the Mother of God Monastery, leaving comfort and joy.
