In the history of Christianity, a great many painters.And only a few of them managed to create miraculous images.More precisely, they did miraculous God allowed them to be so, in order to help people preserve and enhance confidence.Trubchevsk icon of the Mother of God - one of these icons.Her story is very interesting.
History of icons
In 1765, the city Trubchevsk located in the Bryansk region (formerly Oryol province), monk, whose Cholnskom Monastery everyone called Euthymius wrote icon.The icon he painted the Virgin with the Savior in his arms.Ever head monk adorned crown.The fact of writing icons ieromonahom Euthymius is evidenced by the inscription on the picture of the Virgin - "1765 EMF".When harvested for Trinity-Skanovo monastery donations, the monk did not have anything more valuable than Trubchevsk Mother of God.
Trinity Monastery-scans - a haven Trubchevsk icons
-scans Trinity Monastery was in the city and belonged Narovchat Penza diocese.
is famous Monastery of the Caves, which by their length is longer than the caves of Kiev-Pechersk Lavra.Caves in the last stretch for more than five hundred meters, and to the Holy Trinity Monastery-Skanovo - two kilometers.In the caves settled monks leading a solitary life with the blessing of the monastery, carrying obedience, accomplished the feat by fasting and prayer, feeling themselves and their faith.
Trubchevsk icon of the Mother of God performed many miracles, and they do not have to wait.It is a pity that the documentary evidence of events emanating from the icon, left - a fire in the monastery took with him all the documents stored there.
miraculous image of Our Lady
Trubchevsk, according to the testimony of old residents in the 19th century has saved many people from the cholera epidemic which twice overwhelmed Narovchat and its surroundings.People were in panic.They came to the monk and asked for help.Monks and all the locals made a procession, with the removal of the Virgin miraculously walls of the monastery, in the city.Prayers were answered, she saw the Mother of God the zeal of the faithful.After that, the epidemic ceased, and the monks at all since then did not know what the disease.People believed in the miraculous power of the icon.Trubchevsk icon of the Mother of God stood up in a number of particularly revered, it reached the people.
When the temple was built in honor of
Near the burial place of the dead from the invasion of cholera grateful for the salvation of people built a temple in honor of the Virgin Trubchevsk.Consecrated the church on October 3 at the old, October 16 on the Gregorian calendar, 1853.Trubchevsk icon since worshiped on this day especially.Believers, going to church, remember, it helps people Trubchevsk Mother of God.Akathist to read in her honor on this day.Throughout its history, the image has gone through a lot.But by God's will the icon came to the present day.
ordeals
power by the Bolsheviks was a challenge for many people, especially believers.The soldiers ravaged and closed temples, destroyed all that was connected with religion.It did not escape this fate and the Trinity Monastery-scans, and with it the miraculous image of the Virgin.In the 30 years of the twentieth century, the new government closed the monastery, organizing it a poultry farm.The caves, which once inhabited by hermits, were blown up.There are only 600 meters away from the two-kilometer cave.All the furniture was looted, and the icon of the Virgin Trubchevsk turned into a stand for museum exhibits in the regional museum of local lore AIKuprin.All precious furniture removed from the icon.And, of course, no one cared about the safety of miraculous paintings, even put flowers in the room the holy image.In 1975 he made an inventory of the museum and another wrote that the Mother of God icon Trubchevsk lost.But 18 years later, thanks to the search for the missing museum values, the image of the Virgin, painted in Trubchevsk, was found in the vaults of the museum.
miraculous return of the icon
When the Mother of God Trubchevsk returned to Trinity Monastery-scans (in 1993), it was made with three lists.Once miraculously we decided to take a picture.According to the memoirs of the journalist VAPolyakov, who is at this time in the church, the day was unusually cloudy.The clouds dimmed the sky, leaving a single lumen.The angle in which hung a icon, was barely illuminated icon lamp.The visitor took the camera and the lens pointing at the icon, decided that, though futile to make high-quality images, but still need to try.Suddenly, in a lattice window under the dome of the temple, he poured the sunlight, illuminating the image Ever since he played colors and lit a halo above the head of the Virgin.Only two or three shots had to do before the sun once again disappeared behind impenetrable clouds.All who were present at the time, decided unanimously that the icon is happy return to the temple.By the way, Poles - not only journalists, but also local history - did everything possible to icon was found.Of course, after the neglect with it in the years of Soviet power, the icon is badly damaged, it was covered with mold, board and canvas - pokorezheny.But the miraculous icon was restored at the Holy Trinity-Sergius Lavra.The restoration lasted a long nine months.But the image back to life.
Virgin Trubchevsk again works wonders
first miracles emanating from icons, were just a legend.But faith, Trubchevsk icon of the Mother of God, prayer - fervent, with a broken heart - doing their job.Today, as many decades ago, by the grace of the Heavenly Queen saved a lot of people.Trubchevsk icon help defeat the disease and misfortune.The only difference is that before it was cholera, and now - no less terrible tuberculosis, cancer and many other diseases.This icon is no such queues, as Matrona of Moscow, but the glass on the chain as much gold jewelry brought in gratitude for life extension or birth of a child, for the salvation of death or deliverance from addiction.Each product - evidence of a miracle, created in the prayer to the Mother of God.
first of the modern miracles happened in the early 2000s.Mother four-year girl told the abbot of the monastery, that his daughter does not talk, get advice on what to pray at the miraculous face of the Virgin.A woman prayed and then her daughter anointed with oil from the lamps burning before the icon.A few days later my mother told the girl that the baby began to speak.
Modern evidence of the miraculous icon
Nuns of the Monastery of the Holy Trinity-Skanovo can remember so many stories of parishioners who helped Trubchevsk icon.Prayer at the icon of a resident of Penza, which was discharged from the cancer center with terminal cancer, gave her the opportunity for more than seven years to come to the monastery, limping with gratitude to the face of the Virgin and replenish oil, all from the same oil lamps that illuminate Trubchevsk icon of the Mother of God.
What still pray, standing in front of the face of the miraculous?For example, an aunt living in the city of Saransk, came to the monastery to pray for the niece of America.Then on the state in which there was a house and a niece, a powerful hurricane struck, erasing, as it turned out, from the earth the whole city.But one house still survived - the house of the very niece on a piece of land in a radius of ten meters.What is this if not a miracle?It's a miracle that made Trubchevsk icon of the Mother of God, prayer and faith.
And nuns may recall the story of the mother and daughter, a drug addict from the sect of Protestants.Exhortations abbess confession and extreme unction are not convinced them.Women said that only when they see the miracle with their own eyes, and then believe.After these words, the daughter of his legs so swollen that she could not move, and when she passed through the sacrament of extreme unction, the tumor has passed by itself.A few years later the girl returned to the monastery without a mother, but her husband and beautiful daughter.
Trubchevsk icon of the Mother of God: where?
Returning to Trinity Monastery-scans, the icon and still takes pride of place there.The icon come to pray, not only citizens of Russia, but also believers from other countries.Mother of God Trubchevsk enjoys special veneration Catholics.Image of the Virgin in the crown - not typical for Orthodoxy, but a common phenomenon among Catholics.Due to the constant change of belonging to this or that state in 14-18 centuries Trubchevsk and other towns of the area exposed to Western Christian culture.Apparently, hence the crown of the Virgin.In the Trubchevsk before the revolution there were several lists Trubchevsk icons.In a monastery, where the icon, and are still held many pilgrims.This shrine is revered around the world.
believe in God or not believe, of course, everyone's business.But regardless of each person's faith, miracles, sent in the form of healing, salvation from death through prayer to certain icons occurred and will occur.Faced with such cases, and explain that something can not be other than the help of higher powers - the Lord, the Blessed Virgin Mary and other saints - people said it was a miracle.Even atheists are starting to wonder about the existence of God.Trubchevsk icon of the Mother of God, as well as other miracle-working icons, helping people to find and strengthen faith.
