Georgia adopted Christianity as state religion one of the first in the world along with . Therefore, the religious culture in the country is very developed. Most parents raise their children by instilling in them faith in Jesus Christ and the saints.

Georgians treat icons with respect. Both a simple peasant and a rich businessman have a “” in their house, where there is always an icon of the Georgian Mother of God. Among the Orthodox population, the archangels and saints are revered, Saint Barbara, Saint George the Victorious, etc., whose images are also placed in “ red corner"("angel's corner").

The Georgian Orthodox Church, like other churches, does not forbid giving icons for various holidays and special events - birthdays, . The main condition is that the icon must be consecrated, then you can pray in front of it. You need to give an icon with good intentions and a pure heart.

Icon of the Georgian Mother of God

The icon was originally located in Georgia. In 1622, the Persians attacked the state and, among other trophies, took away the shrine. Three years later, at one of the Persian bazaars, the clerk of the Yaroslavl merchant Grigory Lytkin bought it. At the same time, the merchant himself had a vision that a certain icon needed to be transferred to a temple near Arkhangelsk.

Four years later, when the clerk returned with the icon to Yaroslavl, Lytkin, seeing the holy face, remembered the dream and directed the image to the indicated place. The icon turned out to be miraculous. After being installed in the temple, she visited many cities, where she performed miracles and healed the sick. Its original has not survived to this day, but lists have survived, some of which are miraculous.

The Georgian Mother of God is depicted according to the Hodegetria type - the Mother of God holds the baby Jesus on her left hand, pointing in his direction with her right hand. The Divine Infant himself holds a scroll in his left hand and performs a blessing with his right hand. The image of Jesus shows his right leg with his bare foot turned outward. Images of saints occupy part of the recess - the ark, carved on the front side of the icon.

The Georgian Mother of God helps to recover from illnesses, conceive and give birth to a child, and maintain peace in the family. The celebration of the icon takes place on September 4.

Barbara was born at the beginning of the 4th century in the family of a noble Phoenician merchant. Against her father's will, she believed in Christian doctrine and accepted martyrdom for this. Together with the resident Juliania, who sympathized with her, Varvara was beheaded by her own parent, who was later overtaken by retribution ( he was killed by a lightning strike).

In the 6th century, the relics of the great martyr were transferred to Constantinople, and in the 12th century - already to Kyiv. Currently, the relic is kept in the Vladimir Cathedral in Kyiv.

Believers pray to Saint Barbara for deliverance from imminent death and serious illnesses, so as not to graduate life path without communion and confession. In Orthodox and catholic church The day of remembrance of the great martyr is set on December 4.

St. George the Victorious

The life of St. George is described by many chroniclers in various variations. The canonical source states that George suffered martyrdom during the Great Persecution under the Emperor Diocletian. The most common image of the saint is sitting on a horse and slaying a serpent ( dragon) spear. Many researchers interpret this as an allegory - the snake personifies paganism, and the horseman - the Christian religion.

St. George the Victorious, along with the Georgian Mother of God, is the most revered saint in Georgia. Local residents believe that he is related to Equal-to-the-Apostles Nina, thanks to whom the state adopted Christianity. In 335, the Georgian king Mirian erected the first temple in honor of St. George. The structure was built on the burial site of St. Nina. Beginning in the 9th century, mass construction of churches in honor of the great martyr began.

In Orthodoxy, the day of remembrance is set on April 23. The following dates are also memorable:

• November 10 - Wheeling of St. George;
• November 3 - consecration of the Lydda Church of St. George the Victorious, built in the 4th century;
• November 26 (St. George's Day) - consecration of the Church of St. George the Great Martyr, built in 1051 in Kyiv.

The tomb of the saint is located in the city of Lod ( Israel). Parts of the relics are kept in the Roman basilica of San Giorgio in Velabro, the reliquary temple of Sainte-Chapelle ( Paris), the monastery of Xenophon ( Greece, Holy Mount Athos).

The Georgian icon of the Mother of God is truly legendary: it remembers the raids of the pagan Cheremis on the newly born monastery, and the terrible fire of 1689, which destroyed all the monastery buildings, and the cruel persecution of the era of the revolution.

Initially, this image was in Georgia, but during the conquest of the country in 1622 by the Persian Shah Abbas, the icon, along with other valuables, was taken to Persia, where enterprising Persians organized trade in Orthodox shrines. 3 years after these events, a local resident brought the Georgian Icon of the Mother of God to the Russian clerk of the Yaroslavl merchant Grigory Lytkin, Stefan Lazarev, who was in Persia on trade matters and offered to buy it. Lazarev could not miss the opportunity to buy Orthodox shrine and, despite the high cost of the icon, decorated with silver and gold, he purchased it.

At this time, the merchant Lytkin, in a sleepy revelation, learned about the acquisition of his clerk and received instructions from above to give the shrine to the Krasnogorsk monastery, which is on the Pinega River, near Arkhangelsk. Initially, the monastery was called Montenegrin because it was built on a mountainous, gloomy-looking area, surrounded by dense forests, known as the Black Mountain. The merchant soon forgot about this revelation, but when 4 years later his steward returned to his homeland and showed him the acquired icon, the pious merchant remembered the vision and immediately went on a trip to the Arkhangelsk province. He handed over the shrine to the monks of the Krasnogorsk monastery, where he built a church especially for it and supplied it with the necessary utensils and books.

The icon turned out to be miraculous. The monk of the monastery, the blind and deaf Pitirim, after praying in front of this image, gains sight and begins to hear. In 1658, Patriarch Nikon, when he was Metropolitan of Novgorod, researched the legends of miracles from the image of the Georgian Mother of God and established its celebration on August 22.

The fame of the Georgian icon reached the farthest reaches of the Russian land. During the reign of Alexei Mikhailovich, religious processions with miraculous images took place not only in the main cities of Russia - Moscow, Ustyug, Vologda, Pereyaslavl-Zalessky, etc., but even reached the Lena River in Siberia. Evidence has been preserved that in 1698 it was decided to bring the holy icon to the city of Arkhangelsk every year “for the sake of the consecration of the city and the Christ-loving peoples who demand the mercy of God and Her Mother of God.” At the same time, the canon for the icon was written by the caretaker of the Moscow printing house, Feodor Polikarpov.

In the village of Klyucharevo, Korchevsky district, Tver diocese, the Georgian icon of the Mother of God miraculously helped get rid of a worm that had attacked the sown fields. During the religious procession, heavy rain fell with the icon, causing a worm to come out of the ground, and birds that flew out of nowhere in huge numbers pecked it off.

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

Ruins of the Krasnogorsk monastery on the Pinega River, Arkhangelsk region

In the 20s of the last century, with the closure of the Krasnogorsk monastery, the icon disappeared, only to appear briefly in 1946, when the monastery reopened. Then Archangel Bishop Leonty reported to the Moscow Patriarchate that the icon had participated in procession in Arkhangelsk. There is information that until the end of the 50s it was in Tretyakov Gallery. However, a 1964 audit carried out in the gallery's funds did not find the image. Either he was kidnapped or sold abroad by the Soviet government. Facts of such sales of museum valuables took place in Soviet history.

In the State Tretyakov Gallery There is kept an exact measurement list of the icon from 1707, made by Kirill Ulanov, an isographer of the Kremlin Armory together with his son Ivan. The inscription on the bottom field of the image reads: “ This holy image of the Mother of God was written with the same measure and outline as in the Montenegrin monastery, called Georgian" The icon contains 4 reliquaries.

Exact measurement list of the icon, 1707

Other copies were made from the icon, some of which were considered miraculous. Three of them are located in Moscow.

Holy Church Life-Giving Trinity in Nikitniki (Church of the Georgian Mother of God) (Nikitnikov Lane, 3)

In the Church of the Life-Giving Trinity in Nikitniki there is a list from 1654, presumably made by Simon Ushakov, “a first-class isographer of the royal school.” That year, a pestilence epidemic was raging in Moscow, and just at that time the Georgian icon of the Mother of God was brought from the Krasnogorsk Monastery to “renew the painting and apply a new robe.” The icon was placed in the Trinity Church in Nikitniki. The silversmith Gabriel Evdokimov ordered a list from it after he was healed after praying with this icon before his seriously ill son.

Another miraculous list previously belonged to Alekseevsky convent, located on the site of the current Cathedral of Christ the Savior.

Alekseevsky Convent on the site of the current Cathedral of Christ the Savior

Its acquisition also dates back to 1654 and is associated with the same ulcer epidemic. A nun of the monastery, remembering the miraculous Georgian icon, which was in Moscow at that time, wanted to ask her for healing. And then that night she had a vision of an unknown monk who said: “Why are you sad that you cannot bring the Georgian Icon of the Mother of God to you? In your monastery, in a cave, there is exactly the same icon, find it - and you will see the mercy of God on yourself. Through this icon there will be healing not only for you, but also for many other people.” After a long search, the sister nuns saw in the church sacristy a cabinet built into the wall, similar to a cave, where the holy image was discovered. After a prayer service before him, the sick woman recovered, and soon the plague in Moscow subsided. By order of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich, the amazing icon was decorated with a precious frame. The list is now 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 Church of the Resurrection of Christ in Sokolniki

In memory of the deliverance from the plague in 1654, an additional celebration of the icon was established on August 15.

The third list was in the Church of the Intercession of the Mother of God on Vorontsovo Field. The miracles of this icon earned her pious veneration both among the common people and among the highest persons. So the Empress Anna Ioannovna summoned the icon to St. Petersburg, where, by order of the Highest Order, it was decorated with an expensive frame with abundance precious stones. The icon was also revered by the Sovereign Emperor Alexander the First, who, while visiting Moscow, repeatedly prayed in front of it, and, once learning that the icon had been robbed, ordered a veteran soldier to be placed to guard the holy image.

During the persecutions of the early 20th century, the Church of the Intercession of the Mother of God on Vorontsovo Field was destroyed, all the jewelry was removed from the icon, and the image itself was transferred to the Church of Saints supreme apostles Peter and Paul on the Yauza. Currently this holy image is located in the Church of St. Martin the Confessor, on the street. Solzhenitsyn, in the chapel of the Georgian Icon of the Mother of God.

View of the Temple of St. Martin the Confessor

Church of St. Martin the Confessor in Moscow
(Alexandra Solzhenitsyn St., former Bolshaya Kommunisticheskaya, no. 15, metro station "Taganskaya" or "Marxistskaya")

In the temple

The image of the Georgian Icon of the Mother of God in the Church of St. Martin the Confessor acquired a new robe on the patronal feast day of September 4, 2009

Another very revered list from the Georgian image is kept in Raifsky Bogoroditsky monastery Kazan diocese. Here, even before 1670, a cathedral church was built in the name of the Georgian Icon of the Mother of God, in which Metropolitan Lavrenty ordered one of the best Kazan icon painters to make an exact copy of the miraculous icon. As ancient monastery legends tell, already during the transfer of the icon from Kazan to the Raifa hermitage, miraculous healings began to occur: the blind regained their sight, the demoniac received purification, and the lame received correction.

Raifa Mother of God Monastery

Raifa Monastery

In 1689, a huge disaster occurred at the Raifa monastery - a fire. Not all sacred objects and things were removed from temples and cells. Fortunately, the miraculous Georgian Icon of the Mother of God was saved. Having lost shelter, some of the monks went to other monasteries, and some remained to live in the ashes. Seeing such devotion to faith in the Providence of God, Metropolitan Adrian of Kazan decided to restore the monastery, but to build it in stone - like the Moscow Resurrection Monastery (New Jerusalem).

In the temple

The miraculous Georgian icon of the Mother of God in the Raifa Monastery

List of the second half of the 17th century. (Raifa Mother of God Monastery)

The list now in the Raifa Monastery is the oldest known.

According to the iconographic type, the Georgian icon of the Mother of God belongs to the Hodegetria (“Guide”) type.

Iconographically, the Georgian image is similar to the JERUSALEM icon of the Mother of God and belongs to the type Hodegetria. A special feature of the image of Jesus Christ is the right foot, with the bare sole turned outward. The iconography of the Georgian icon has analogues among other Georgian icon-painting monuments of the 10th-16th centuries and was especially widespread in Kakheti.

Popular rumor attributes the miraculous image of the Georgian Holy Mother of God special grace to heal from many incurable diseases, for example, from stomach diseases, body tumors, various eye and dental diseases, to free those possessed by unclean spirits, and also to help women suffering from infertility.

Troparion, tone 4
Today the Krasnogorsk monastery brightly flaunts, and with it the Raifa desert rejoices, like the dawn of the sun, rising from the east, having received, O Lady, your miraculous icon, with which you disperse the darkness of temptations and troubles from those crying out truly: deliver our monastery and the entire Christian country from all the slander of the enemy, and save our souls, as the merciful intercessor of the Christian race.

Kontakion, tone 8
To You, the most chosen of all the generations of the Mother of God, / we offer songs of thanksgiving, at the coming of Your honorable icon, Thy servant, // let us call You: Rejoice, Unmarried Bride.

In 1622, the Persian Shah Abbas conquered Georgia, seizing many shrines of the Georgian land for sale to Russian merchants visiting Persia. Among the many stolen things was a Georgian icon of the Mother of God, decorated with silver and gold.
One Persian merchant offered it to the clerk of the merchant Yegor Lytkin, Stefan Lazarev, who was then in Persia on trade business. Stephen happily bought the miraculous image of the Virgin Mary in 1625 and kept it for some time.
At this time, the Yaroslavl merchant Yegor Lytkin saw this icon in a night dream and it was revealed to him that it was with his clerk Lazarev, and at the same time received an order to send the Georgian icon to the Krasnogorsk monastery founded in 1603 on Pinega in the Arkhangelsk diocese. About it Lytkin forgot the revelation for some time. But when Stefan returned to his homeland in 1629 and showed him the icon, the merchant immediately remembered the vision. He immediately went with the Georgian icon to the Dvina chapels of the Montenegrin monastery, where he fulfilled the omen he had seen earlier. The Montenegrin monastery was named because it was built on a mountainous, gloomy-looking area surrounded by dense forests, known as the Black Mountain. This monastery received the name “Krasnogorsk Monastery” only later.
Already by the middle of the 17th century, the Georgian icon was revered as the Miracle-Working Icon. So, just as she was being brought into the monastery, the monk Pitirim, who had not seen or heard anything for a long time, received healing. In 1658, Patriarch Nikon, then the Metropolitan of Novgorod, researched the legends of miracles from this image of the Mother of God and established its celebration on August 22 (September 4, new style). How far the fame of the Georgian icon spread was evident from the fact that during the reign of Alexei Mikhailovich it was worn different cities Russia, for example, to Moscow, Ustyug, Vologda, Pereyaslavl-Zalessky and many others, religious processions with her even reached the Lena River in Siberia. A document from 1698 says that “Through the Georgian image, the Most Holy Theotokos even now works miracles and healings for those who come with faith.” In 1698, it was decided to bring this image to Arkhangelsk every year “for the sake of the consecration of the city and the Christ-loving peoples who demand the mercy of God and Her Mother of God.” At the same time, with the blessing of Archbishop Afanasy of Kholmogory and Vazhsky, the caretaker of the Moscow printing house Fyodor Polikarpov compiled a canon in honor of the Georgian Mother of God.

As ancient monastery legends tell, already during the transfer of the icon from Kazan to Raifa desert Miraculous healings of the weak began to occur: the blind regained their sight, the demoniac received cleansing, and the lame received correction. Thus, from its very first appearance in the Raifa desert, this icon received the glory of the Miracle Worker. Having heard about this, the residents of the city of Sviyazhsk asked the bishop for permission to bring this image to them. And from then on, the icon of the Georgian Mother of God began to rise from its place on July 31 and was brought to Sviyazhsk in the evening. The next day, after the liturgy at the Bogoroditsky Monastery, they organized a religious procession to the Shchuka River and carried the image around the entire city. Then the residents of Sviyazhsk were allowed to take the Miracle-Working Icon from home, and from August 6 to 21 it was solemnly carried through the surrounding villages and returned to Raifa Monastery. But there were cases when residents of individual villages turned to the abbot of the monastery with a request to release the image of the Georgian Mother of God to them for prayer services at inopportune times. This happened in the village of Vasilyevo on June 24, 1830. This is what the legend that has survived to this day tells.

“On that very day, when the icon was carried from house to house and a prayer for rain was taking place, a terrible cloud suddenly appeared. Heavy rain poured down with hail, and to the surprise of all the inhabitants, without the slightest harm to the grain sown in their fields, meanwhile large hail of unusual quantity and size fell near the fields in the forest, so that tree branches were broken off."

Georgian icon of the Mother of God in Russian Orthodox Church revered as miraculous.
It is believed that the beneficial power of this miraculous image allows one to heal a wide variety of ailments, such as stomach diseases, eye and dental diseases, helps with mental disorders, and can also give women suffering from infertility long-awaited offspring. Cases miraculous healings, given by the icon and its venerated copies, are recorded in church chronicles.

Accurate measuring list icons

Georgian icon (1654) - Church of the Life-Giving Trinity in Nikitniki

Georgian icon of the Mother of God in Sokolniki

List of the 17th century - Church of St. Martin the Confessor

Georgian icon of the Mother of God in the Raifa Hermitage

According to the iconographic type, the Georgian icon of the Mother of God belongs to the Hodegetria (“Guide”) type. It is close to the Perivelept variation (where the communication of the Mother of God and the baby is depicted). The iconography of the Mother of God is similar to other Georgian icons of the 10th-16th centuries, especially Kakheti. The image in question is very reminiscent of the Jerusalem Icon of the Mother of God.
The icon has an ark - a recessed central part on the front surface of the board. Images of the Mother of God and the baby Jesus occupy most of the ark. The head of the Mother of God is bowed and turned towards the Infant God sitting on her left hand. The right hand of Christ is raised in blessing, and in his left he holds a scroll - a sign of saving teaching for the enlightenment of the human race.
A characteristic feature of the image of the Savior on the Georgian icon is that the right foot is tucked under the left, with the bare sole facing outward.

Initially, the icon was located on the territory of Georgia. When the Persian Shah Abbas captured this country in 1622, the icon was taken to Persia among other trophies. It was here, three years later, at one of the eastern bazaars that she caught the eye of Stefan Lazarev, the clerk of the merchant Grigory Lytkin from Yaroslavl. Stefan, who was in Persia on trade business, could not pass by the Orthodox image and purchased the icon at his own peril and risk, although the shrine, richly decorated with gold and silver, was not cheap.
Around the same time, his owner Grigory Lytkin had a revelation in a dream about a certain icon that needed to be transferred to a specific monastery near Arkhangelsk. Without attaching any importance to the dream, Lytkin soon forgot about it.
Four years after this event, in 1629, Stefan returned to Yaroslavl and showed the purchased Georgian icon of the Mother of God. The merchant immediately remembers the mysterious dream and, following the instructions received in it, sends the image to the Krasnogorsk (formerly Chernogorsk) monastery, which stood near Arkhangelsk on the Pinega River, where he built a church especially for it.

The icon turned out to be miraculous. The monk of the monastery, the blind and deaf Pitirim, after praying in front of this image, gains sight and begins to hear.
This event was reflected in one of the church kontakions -
“Having a storm inside with doubtful thoughts, the blind man Pitirim, when he was illuminated by the radiance of light, like the sun, was confused and overcome by fear, thinking about this, as if about a demonic induction: for many years he was blind, with prayer create the sign of the cross, turn to the temple and see Thy wondrous icon, O Lady, shining with radiant rays in the temple, in his mind, as if his eyes were opened and his ears were opened, he brought thanksgiving to God, wondrous in deeds, singing: Alleluia.”
The icon showed numerous miracles in the future, so much so that in 1658 a special decree was even issued by Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich and Patriarch Nikon establishing the day of celebration of the icon on September 4 (new style), and from 1698 it was ordered that the Georgian icon be brought to Arkhangelsk for, as they said: “the consecration of the city and Christ-loving peoples who demand God’s and Her Mother of God’s mercy.”
But the icon was not only worn in Arkhangelsk; it visited Moscow, Vologda, Pereslavl-Zalessky and other Russian cities.
In the village of Klyucharevo, Korchevsky district, Tver diocese, the Georgian icon of the Mother of God miraculously helped get rid of a worm that had attacked the sown fields. During the religious procession, heavy rain fell with the icon, causing a worm to come out of the ground, and birds that flew out of nowhere in huge numbers pecked it off.

Unfortunately, the original Georgian Icon of the Mother of God has not survived to this day.
In the twenties of the last century, with the closure of the Krasnogorsk monastery, the icon disappeared, only to appear briefly in 1946, when the monastery reopened. Then Bishop Leonty of Arkhangelsk reported to the Moscow Patriarchate that the icon took part in a religious procession in Arkhangelsk, but after that the image disappeared without a trace.
The State Tretyakov Gallery houses an accurate measurement list of the icon from 1707, made by Kirill Ulanov, an isographer of the Kremlin Armory, together with his son Ivan. The inscription on the lower field of the image reads: “This holy image of the Mother of God was written with the same measure and outline as in the Montenegrin monastery, called Georgian.”

Numerous copies were made from the holy image, and four of them, like the original, later became famous for their miracles.
Three of them are located in Moscow.

In the Church of the Life-Giving Trinity in Nikitniki there is a copy of 1654, presumably made by Simon Ushakov, “a first-class isographer of the royal school.” That year, a pestilence epidemic was raging in Moscow, and just at that time the Georgian icon of the Mother of God was brought from the Krasnogorsk Monastery to “renew the painting and apply a new robe.” The icon was placed in the Trinity Church in Nikitniki. The silversmith Gabriel Evdokimov ordered a list from it after he was healed after praying with this icon before his seriously ill son.
(the address of the location of this icon is the Church of the Life-Giving Trinity in Nikitniki, Nikitnikov Lane, 3)

Another miraculous list previously belonged to the Alekseevsky Convent, located on the site of the current Cathedral of Christ the Savior. Its acquisition also dates back to 1654 and is associated with the same ulcer epidemic.
A nun of the monastery, remembering the miraculous Georgian icon, which was in Moscow at that time, wanted to ask her for healing. And then that night she had a vision of an unknown monk who said: “Why are you sad that you cannot bring the Georgian Icon of the Mother of God to you? In your monastery, in a cave, there is exactly the same icon, find it - and you will see the mercy of God on yourself. Through this icon there will be healing not only for you, but also for many other people.” After a long search, the sister nuns saw in the church sacristy a cabinet built into the wall, similar to a cave, where the holy image was discovered. After a prayer service before him, the sick woman recovered, and soon the plague in Moscow subsided.
By order of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich, the amazing icon was decorated with a precious frame. In memory of the deliverance from the plague in 1654, an additional celebration of the icon was established on August 15.
(the list is in the Church of the Resurrection of Christ in Sokolniki, Sokolnicheskaya sq., 6)

The third list was previously located in the Church of the Intercession of the Mother of God on Vorontsovo Field. The miracles emanating from this copy of the Georgian icon inspired Tsarina Paraskeva Feodorovna to create a precious icon case (1706). The holy image was once visited by Empress Anna Ioannovna and the Sovereign Emperor Alexander the First.
(the address of the current location is the Church of St. Martin the Confessor, Alexander Solzhenitsyn St., former B. Kommunisticheskaya, no. 15)

Another very revered copy of the Georgian image has been kept since 1661 in the Raifa Mother of God hermitage of the Kazan diocese. The list was commissioned by Metropolitan Lavrenty to the best icon painter of Kazan. It was placed in a specially built cathedral church in the name of the Georgian Icon of the Mother of God. The monastery tablets record the miracles that occurred during the transfer of the icon from Kazan to the Raifa hermitage. The blind began to see, the mentally ill were healed, the lame began to walk without crutches.
The legend tells about an incident that occurred in the village of Vasilyevo near the city of Sviyazhsk in the summer of 1830. There was a terrible drought, and people prayed to the Georgian Mother of God for rain. During the prayer service, a terrible cloud appeared in the sky, from which rain and hail poured out, but not a single hailstone fell on the field with the sown grain, although branches on the trees broke near the field in the forest under the onslaught of the elements.
(list location address - Raifa Mother of God Monastery, Republic of Tatarstan, Zelenodolsk district, Raifa village)

Prayer to the Georgian Icon of the Mother of God.

Receive, O all-powerful Most Pure Lady Lady Theotokos, these honorable gifts from us, Thy unworthy servants, to Thy whole-bearing image the singing of those who send up with tenderness, as if You are the One who exists and listens to our prayers and gives with faith to those who ask for each request and fulfillment: you alleviate the sorrows of those who mourn , grant health to the weak, heal the paralytic and sick, and drive away demons from demons. You deliver the offended from their insults, and you save the raped, and you forgive sinners. You cleanse the lepers and have mercy on little children, and you free the barren from infertility. Also, Madam Lady, you free from bonds and prisons and heal all kinds of diverse passions and heal eye diseases and deliver from deadly ulcers: for all things are possible through Your intercession to Your Son. Christ our God. O all-sung Mother, Most Pure Mother of God! Do not cease to pray for us, Your unworthy servants, who glorify You and honor and worship Your Most Pure Image, and have irrevocable hope and undoubted faith, to You, the Ever-Virgin, most glorious and immaculate, glorifying and honoring, and singing to You forever and ever.
Amen.

Icon of the Mother of God “GEORGIAN”

Description of the Georgian Icon of the Mother of God:

Initially, this image was in Georgia, but during the conquest of the country in 1622 by the Persian Shah Abbas, the icon, along with other valuables, was taken to Persia, where enterprising Persians organized trade in Orthodox shrines. Three years after these events, a local resident brought the Georgian Icon of the Mother of God to the Russian clerk of the Yaroslavl merchant Grigory Lytkin, Stefan Lazarev, who was in Persia on trade matters and offered to buy it. Lazarev could not miss the opportunity to buy the Orthodox shrine and, despite the high cost of the icon, decorated with silver and gold, he purchased it.

At this time, the merchant Lytkin, in a sleepy revelation, learned about the acquisition of his clerk and received instructions from above to give the shrine to the Krasnogorsk monastery in the Arkhangelsk diocese. Initially, this monastery, built on a mountain covered with dense (black) forests, was called Montenegrin. The merchant soon forgot about this revelation, but when four years later his steward returned to his homeland and showed the acquired icon, the pious merchant remembered the vision and immediately went on a trip to the Arkhangelsk province, where he handed over the shrine to the monks of the Krasnogorsk monastery.

The Georgian icon of the Mother of God soon became famous for the miracles of healing performed near it. Thus, after his prayers at the miraculous image, the monk Pitirim completely regained his lost sight and hearing. Already in 1650, Metropolitan Nikon of Novgorod, the future Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', having examined the recorded healings from prayers before the miraculous icon of the Mother of God, established the day of its celebration - August 22.

The fame of the miraculous Georgian Icon of the Mother of God quickly spread throughout Rus'. The chronicle of the reign of Alexei Mikhailovich testifies that the miraculous image was worn in many Russian provinces, even on the Lena River in Siberia. The charter of 1698 says: “Through the image of the Georgian, the Most Holy Theotokos, both before and now, performs many miracles and healings for those who come with faith.” Currently, several lists (copies) are revered in Moscow ancient image. Unfortunately, the original of the miraculous Georgian icon of the Blessed Virgin Mary has not survived.

Iconographically, the Georgian image is similar to the JERUSALEM icon of the Mother of God.

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Before the Georgian icon of the Most Holy Theotokos they pray for deliverance from pestilence, epidemics, plague, for healing from deafness and ear diseases, blindness or other eye diseases.

Prayers to the Most Holy Theotokos in front of Her icon called “Georgian”

First prayer

Accept, O All-Powerful Most Pure Lady Theotokos, these honorable gifts from us, Thy unworthy servants, to Thy whole-bearing image the singing of those who send up with tenderness, as to You who exist and listen to our prayers and give with faith to those who ask for each request and fulfillment: to those who mourn you alleviate sorrows, you grant health to the weak, you heal the paralytic and sick and drive away demons from demons, you deliver the offended from insults, and save the raped, you forgive sinners, you cleanse lepers and kindness to little children, and you relieve the barren from infertility. Also, O Lady the Lady, you free from bonds and prisons and heal all kinds of diverse passions and heal eye diseases and deliver from deadly ulcers: everything is possible through your intercession to your Son, Christ our God. O All-Singing Mother, Most Pure Mother of God! Do not cease to pray for us, Your unworthy servants, who glorify You and reverence, and worship Your most pure image and have irrevocable hope and undoubted faith, to You, the Ever-Virgin, Most Glorious and Immaculate, glorifying and honoring and singing Thee forever and ever. Amen.

Second prayer

To You, God-chosen Youth, Most Holy Virgin Mother of God, Queen of heaven and earth, we fall down crying: hear our voices of prayer and do not turn Your face away from us unworthy. Accept, O All-Blessed One, from Your unworthy servants, who honor Your honorable name, and with faith who worship You before Your miraculous image, our warm prayer now offered: lift up Your Son, Christ our God, to the throne, may He be merciful to our iniquities and not repay according to our deeds, but may He add to His generosity. We know, as we have not known before us: you can ask Him for everything, or motherly have boldness towards Him. For this reason, we resort to You, as our all-powerful and all-good Intercessor, fervently praying: ask for the Only Begotten Son of God, born of You, Christ our God, for all of us in the Holy Fathers Orthodox faith Firmly remaining until the end of our days and unswervingly walking in all the commandments of the Lord, and living the rest of our lives in all piety and purity, we will be honored with a peaceful Christian death and a good answer at the terrible judgment of Your Son and our God. And thus we will achieve, under the roof of Your help, the eternal life in the Kingdom of the Father of Lights, to Him, together with His Only Begotten Son and the Holy Spirit, befits glory, honor and worship, now and ever and unto ages of ages. Amen.

Prayer three

Thy greatness and mercy, O Mother of God, whoever confesses; and whoever will sing of Your glorious miracle; You have brought joy to the Russian Church's faithful children, Most Pure One, but you have disgraced the godless barbarians who despised Your shrine: for you have preserved for us Your wonderful Icon, with which our ailments are healed and our spiritual sorrows are healed. Oh, All-Merciful Lady, Virgin Mother of God, do not deprive us of Your protection even now, but through Your prayers always preserve our country and people in the world and contribute to the restoration of the Raifa monastery. For the Holy Mother of the Most Holy God, Lady, Mary the Mother of God, pray with all the saints of Thy souls to rest in the heavenly villages of the souls of Thy servant, the new martyrs and confessors of Raifa:

Archimandrite Theodosius (Luzgina)

ub. Abbot Sergius (Guskova)

ub. Hieromonk Anthony (Chirkov)

ub. Hieromonk Joseph (Gavrilov)

ub. Hieromonk Varlaam (Pokhilyuk)

ub. Hieromonk Job (Protopopov)

Hieromonk Mitrofan (Kirillov)

Hierodeacon Jerome (Sorokin)

Hierodeacon Porfira (Sovetnikov)

Monk Savvaty (Agafonov)

Monk Gelasius (Terekhin)

monk Nestor (Nikitin)

Deacon Alexander Sebeldin

ub. novice Pyotr Tupitsyn

novice Peter Rantsev

ub. Vasily Gavrilova

ub. Stepan Abramov.

Fourth prayer
May in the Moscow Georgian Church on Vorontsovo Field

O Wonderful and Most Wonderful Queen Theotokos, Mother of Christ our God! Hear us, Thy sinful and unworthy servants, who fall at this hour and diligently cry out: deliver us from troubles, O Lady, and intercede, do not despise our tears and sighs, and deliver us from all sorrow and misfortune, from evil and cruel slander; Are you not imams who are warm Representatives and Intercessors for Your Son, Christ our God? Pray to him, that he may save you for our souls, now and ever and unto ages of ages. Amen.

Fifth prayer

O Most Holy Virgin, Mother of Christ our God, Queen of Heaven and earth! Listen to the much-painful sighing of our souls, look down from Thy holy height upon us, who with faith and love worship Thy most pure and miraculous image. Because we are immersed in sins and overwhelmed by sorrows, looking at Your image, as if You were alive and living with us, we offer our humble prayers. The imams have no other help, no other intercession, no consolation, except You, O Mother of all who grieve and are burdened! Help us the weak, assuage our sorrows, guide us astray on the right path, heal our painful hearts and save the hopeless, grant us the rest of our lives in peace and repentance, grant us a Christian death, and at the Last Judgment of Your Son the merciful Representative will appear to us, May we always sing, magnify and glorify Thee, as the Good Intercessor of the Christian race, who has pleased God with all, forever and ever. Amen.

Prayer six,
May in the St. Nicholas Golden Cross Church in the city of Vologda

O Most Celestial Queen, Mother of God Mary, Divine Light Receiver, Receptacle of God's Word, prophetic mirror, apostolic sermon, crowned with the martyr of suffering, praise to the saint, bright hymn to the saints and helper, and rejoicing to all the saints, wonderful praise to the Universal Church, invincible power to the Orthodox Tsar, bishop bright crown, and of all Orthodox Christianity, divine protection and helper, deliverance from all evils, resolution of sins, to eternal life teacher and intercessor for us before Christ! Grant, O Lady of God, intercession and help, Thy indescribable and wondrous miracles to those who worship, and Thy honorable icons of signs, the last generation shown for salvation and intercession. Fill our hungry hearts with heavenly food, and fill us with spiritual joy, and grant humility to our thoughts, plant Your fear in our hearts, and establish unfeigned love in our souls, and instruct us in every way of the Divine commandments, to walk according to the commandments of Your Son, Our Lord Jesus Christ, to Him be glory, with the Father and the Holy Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages. Amen.

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Troparion to the Most Holy Theotokos in front of Her icon called “Georgian”

Troparion, tone 4

Today the Krasnogorsk monastery is brightly flaunted, and with it the Raifa desert rejoices, like the dawn of the sun, rising from the east, having received, O Lady, your miraculous icon, with which you disperse the darkness of temptations and troubles from those crying out truly: deliver our monastery and the entire Christian country from all the slander of the enemy and save our souls, as the Merciful Intercessor of the Christian race.

Troparion, tone 5

The Orthodox people rejoice when they see the Lady Virgin Mary, Your wonderful and miraculous icon, and always accept spiritual and physical healing by Your mercy. In the same way, we, worshiping them, earnestly cry out to You: have mercy, O Good Mother, on Your humble servants and deliver us from all evil and slander of the enemy, praying to Your Son the Lord Jesus, so that, having been saved here, we will receive Heavenly residence through His love for mankind and His grace.

Kontakion, tone 8

To You, the Most Chosen of all generations, the Mother of God, we offer thanksgiving singing, with the coming of Your honorable icon, Your servants, Mother of God, are illuminated, but, as having an invincible power, free us from all troubles, let us call You: Rejoice, Unmarried Bride.

Kontakion, tone 6

If by Divine permission at the hands of the infidels, Your honorable icon, O Lady, was subjected to desecration and a barbarian was pierced by a spear, yet in our Orthodox country it is lovingly glorified and reverently revered by everyone, for this reason for Your sake the blind see, the deaf hear, the dumb speak, the lame walk, the weakened strengthen , consolation and consolation for the sorrowful. For this sake, we pray to Thee, Merciful Mother, to the end add Thy mercy to us, as the Good One.

Greatness

We magnify You, Most Holy Virgin, Mother of Christ our God, and honor Your holy image, from which you exude healing to all who flow to You with faith.

Akathist to the Most Holy Theotokos in front of the icon called “Georgian”:

Kontakion 1

Chosen from all generations, to the Mother of God and the Queen before Her most pure image, with tenderness we offer songs of praise: But You, who have indescribable mercy for the Christian race, deliver from troubles and sorrows all of us who call You: Rejoice, Unmarried Bride.

Ikos 1

The Archangels and Angels reverently serve You, and all the Heavenly Powers, with silent voices, sing to You, the Virgin Mother of God, as having given birth to the heavenly armies of the King: but we are earth-born, reverently standing before Your miraculous face with mortal lips, crying out to Tisce: Rejoice, from all generations for the redemption of our race chosen; Rejoice, full of the Holy Spirit of gifts. Rejoice, thou who hast exalted the Cherubim and Seraphim; Rejoice, you who served the sacrament of salvation of the human race. Rejoice, holy receptacle of the Word of God; Rejoice, you who bore the indescribable Word of the Father in your wombs. Rejoice, true fulfillment of prophetic verbs; Rejoice, having redeemed the guilt of the forefathers of our race through Your birth. Rejoice, intercession given to the Christian race from God; Rejoice, salvation of the human race is the beginning. Rejoice, ladder of Divine condescension; Rejoice, you build a bridge from earth to heaven for the earth-born. Rejoice, Unbrided Bride.

Kontakion 2

Seeing the Most Pure One from the heights of Her heavenly dwelling, where she abides in glory with Her Son, the bitterness against Christian shrines in the Georgian country, by God's permission in those days, came from the Persian king Abbas, who devastated the Georgian country and desecrated Her Christian churches, and keeping the holy icon from such reproach, I will return the Russian country to my husband and reverently Stefan, you have helped me with good providence, O Lady. Having now acquired Thy holiness, this faithful servant, with tenderness of heart, cry out to God: Alleluia.

Ikos 2

Understand at least the reverent husband George, the bewildered mystery of Your revelation, Lady, about a certain priceless bead, acquired by the steward of his estate in the country of Persia, in consultation with Patriarch Philaret. We, in wonder and reverence, cry out to Her at the mysterious admonition of the Most Blessed One, given from above by a faithful servant: Rejoice, thou who revealest the hidden secrets of God’s grace to the faithful; Rejoice, you who praise God through the lips of the Orthodox. Rejoice, unfaithful Hagarites, who despised Your shrine, disgracing; Rejoice, thou who illumine the meanings of the faithful with the glory of Thy miracles. Rejoice, you who teach us the veneration of holy icons; Rejoice, Christ's faith in our country, affirming. Rejoice, you who sanctify the monastery of the Red Mountain monks with Your holy image; Rejoice, thou who marked the day of the bringing of Thy venerable icon by healing the monk. Rejoice, priceless beads, Thy holy icon, like an advertisement, which has given us; Rejoice, priceless beads, who gave birth to Christ for our salvation. Rejoice, having visited our country in Your honest image; Rejoice, you who have enriched the peaceful abode of monks with inalienable wealth. Rejoice, Unbrided Bride.

Kontakion 3

The power of the Most High overshadows those who flow with faith to Thy sovereign protection, Lady, and reverently honor Thy miraculous icon, Mother of God: for she has been given grace from God to heal every ailment and every disease in people, and we also cry out to God with gratitude: Alleluia.

Ikos 3

Having a warm providence for the people of the winter midnight, Thou didst accept the Red Mountain under Thy roof, O Mother of God, and Thou didst mercifully bestow Thy honorable image on the monastery of that monks: so that one can see the currents of miracles, poured out in abundance on those who pray to Thee with faith, in tenderness, they cry out to Thee, the Lady : Rejoice, thou who overshadows the humble abode of the monks of the Red Mountains with Thy sovereign protection; Rejoice, glorifying the Red Mountain with miracles from Your holy icon. Rejoice, you who revealed the likeness of blessed Athos at winter midnight; Rejoice, you who wonderfully pointed out the Red Mountain to the monastic life. Rejoice, Thou who bestowed Thy celibate icon as a shield and fence for that place; Rejoice, you who have created a quiet abode for the monks who settled on this holy mountain. Rejoice, you who organize the life of the monastic rite for the salvation of souls; Rejoice, you who promote salvation for all who want to achieve salvation. Rejoice, covering the Red Mountain and those who dwell on it with Your blessed omophorion; Rejoice, you who do not abandon those who flow to Your protection and intercession. Rejoice, strengthening the weak on the path of virtue; Rejoice, you who guide those who are lost on the true path. Rejoice, Unbrided Bride.

Kontakion 4

Having a storm inside with doubtful thoughts, the blind man Pitirim, when he was illuminated by the radiance of light, like the sun, was confused and overcome with fear, thinking about this, as if about a demonic induction: for many years he was blind, with prayer create the sign of the cross, turn to the temple and see the wonderful Your icon, Lady, shone with radiant rays in the temple, and in his mind, as if his eyes were opened and his ears were opened, he offered thanksgiving to God, wondrous in deeds, singing: Alleluia.

Ikos 4

Having heard the blessed Tsar of all Russia Alexy, as if from Thy holy icon, the Lady, even on the Red Mountain, the healing of many different ailments is abundantly given, he gave a command to the abbot of the monastery to honor the city and the weight of his great power with due honor: let the afflicted accept the medicine of bodily ailments and spiritual and tender hearts cry out to You, Lady: Rejoice, consecrated temple of Christ our God; Rejoice, receptacle of His ineffable glory. Rejoice, King of the reigning animated city; Rejoice, chamber and palace of heaven. Rejoice, praise to the Orthodox Church; Rejoice, Russian powers, fortress and affirmation. Rejoice, blessed protection of our cities and villages; Rejoice, all Christians who flow to You, unashamed hope. Rejoice, worthily honored from all generations; Rejoice, thou who deliverest us all from troubles and sorrows by the coming of Thy honorable image. Rejoice, you who guide those who are on a journey to seek the mountain city; Rejoice, our Guide to the eternal abode. Rejoice, Unbrided Bride.

Kontakion 5

More than a godlike star, Thy icon appeared, O Mother of God, according to Thy holy will, brought from the east at midnight, and, like a heavenly gift, the monks of the Red-Hustled One accepted it, placed it in the cathedral church of the monastery, and in joy gave a belt of good things to the giver God: Alleluia.

Ikos 5

Seeing the silversmith Gabriel, weeping green before Your miraculous image, Lady, as if you had mercy then, You raised up his son lying on his sick bed and made him healthy, have mercy on me too, O Blessed Virgin Mary, and resurrect my soul, killed by sins, I call: Rejoice, Mother of the King of the belly and the Conqueror of death; Rejoice, thou who hast bestowed upon us the favor of Thy Son, Christ our God. Rejoice, illuminating the Russian country with the bright rays of miracles from Your holy icon; Rejoice, you who pour forth rich gifts of healings and mercies to those who ask You before Your wonderful icon. Rejoice, our prayers, offered to You with faith and love, graciously accepted; Rejoice, you who quickly heal the bodily ailments of those who faithfully worship You. Rejoice, you who transform our sorrow into joy; Rejoice, you who deliver us from tears and sorrows. Rejoice, consolation to parents who grieve for their children; Rejoice, children of their grace-filled protection and salvation. Rejoice, protection for us in life and after death; Rejoice, our salvation is in the righteous judgment of God. Rejoice, Unbrided Bride.

Kontakion 6

The preacher who did the merchant George his will, you advertised to him, the Lady: steward of your estate Stefan, who is in Persia, buy you a priceless bead, and when he brings it to you, you send it to the Dvina region, to the Chermnaya Mountain. Having now become aware of this Thy Georgy, O Most Pure One, there is special favor towards that place, I will rise up to sing to the God born of Thee: Alleluia.

Ikos 6

The glory of God has shone on holy mount Reddened by Thy wonderful icon, Mother of God, before the stranger, we pray to Thee with tenderness, hear us crying to Thee earnestly: Rejoice, O Thou who overshadowed the Midnight Mountain with the coming of Thy miraculous image; Rejoice, you who showed an endless source of miracles on her. Rejoice, having shown Your mercy and love to the monastery of monks; Rejoice, you who showed Your good providence for her. Rejoice, healer of our bodily ailments; Rejoice, you who console us in our spiritual sorrows. Rejoice, O pious Teacher; Rejoice, Leader of the monastic life. Rejoice, you who are kind and accepting of vows for the salvation of souls; Rejoice, good intentions and contributing to our undertaking. Rejoice, thou who driveth away evil thoughts from us from the enemy’s intimidation; Rejoice, thou who destroyest the wiles of the enemy, like a spider. Rejoice, Unbrided Bride.

Kontakion 7

Although to give a blessing to the newly built monastery of monks, the name of Raifa, Archpastor Lawrence of Kazan, Your face, O Lady, from Your miraculous Krasnogorsk image was identically copied, solemnly with prayer singing, and brought into the Raifa monastery. Having been a witness of the accomplishments of Thy holy One, O Lady, icon of signs and wonders, joyfully cry out to God: Alleluia.

Ikos 7

We see the new font of Siloam, O Most Pure Mother of God, Thy temple, which is also in Raifa: for every ailment and every illness of soul and body is healed with faith and love by those who flow to You and reverently honor and kiss Your holy image. For this reason, having a new ineffable treasure of Your mercies, we joyfully cry out to You, Most Pure One: Rejoice, font, in which our spiritual ailments are healed; Rejoice, thou who hast brought forth the water of life to those who thirst. Rejoice, you who give sight to the bodily blind; Rejoice, you who open the ears of the deaf. Rejoice, strengthening those who are weak in the body; Rejoice, you who rise up those who lie on the bed of sickness. Rejoice, saving those who swim on the waters from storms and drowning; Rejoice, you who lie in the depths of the sea of ​​life and guide you to the quiet haven of salvation. Rejoice, weapon, with which the demonic regiments are afraid; Rejoice, shield, with which the abodes of monks are covered. Rejoice, quiet joy of the desert dwellers; Rejoice, quiet refuge for those overwhelmed in this world. Rejoice, Unbrided Bride.

Kontakion 8

It is strange to hear and inconvenient to understand with evil unbelief, clouded by evil, how signs and wonders come from Thy holy icons, O Lady: but we warmly believe the words, which were first written by You as the evangelist of the Gospel mysteries. holy icon said: the grace that was born of Me and Mine with this image may it be convenient to understand and righteously trust, as with it Your holy icon, “Georgian”, Your grace and power abides: for this reason, with reverent fear, what is coming, we honor and reward She is honored, as You yourself, inherent in us, joyfully sing to God: Alleluia.

Ikos 8

All ever-present and abiding with the Heavenly Powers, you do not abandon us earthly beings, Mother of God, with warm intercession before your Son and Thy God: more motherly than imash boldness towards Him. For this reason, standing before Your most pure image, with tears of repentance, we cry out to the Mother of God: Rejoice, faithful Guide, guiding us to the good of the heavenly fatherland; Rejoice, Mother of the King of heaven and earth, opening the gates of heaven to us. Rejoice, Housebuilder, who arranges our life towards heaven; Rejoice, you who show us the eternal good of Your Son. Rejoice, you who save us here from sorrows and troubles; Rejoice, eternal torment and the fire of Gehenna that delivers us after death. Rejoice, Thou who art most merciful to all who flow with faith and love to Thee; Rejoice, our prayers, offered to You in front of Your miraculous image, ascending to the throne of Your Son and our God. Rejoice, our good Helper; Rejoice, our unshameable hope and sure salvation. Rejoice, Unbrided Bride.

Kontakion 9

The Most High of all natures of Archangel and Angel, Cherub and Seraphim, Most Honest, Most Holy Virgin, God and King Heavenly Powers You gave birth to flesh, You bore the whole world in your arms, and You nourished every nature of the One who nourishes with milk: therefore, truly, the Mother of God and the Intercessor of the Christian race, leading You, with boldness we cry out to God: Alleluia.

Ikos 9

The vets of multi-proclamation do not know with which words of praise it is appropriate to magnify Thee, Mother of God, according to her heritage, is perplexed, for every tongue is worthy of singing to Thee, Theotokos: otherwise, Good Being, accept graciously, even if the weak meanings are composed, but from a pure heart brought to Thee in praise of the maize singing : Rejoice, most immaculate Youth, chosen by eternal counsel for the salvation of our race; Rejoice, Woman, even as a seed crush the head of the ancient serpent. Rejoice, Most Blessed One among women; Rejoice, having found grace from God. Rejoice, you who humbly accepted the Archangel's broadcast about the incarnation of the One from the Holy Trinity; Rejoice, meek servant of the Lord. Rejoice, vessel sanctified by the Spirit of God; Rejoice, overshadowed by the power of the Most High. Rejoice, you who gave birth to the Savior of our souls; Rejoice, you who have reconciled our fallen race with the justice of God. Rejoice, We go, closed by Thy Nativity to the world; Rejoice, having freed me from the captivity of hell through Your Nativity. Rejoice, Unbrided Bride.

Kontakion 10

Wanting to save many people from troubles and sorrows, everywhere you show, O Mother of God, to our family an inexhaustible source of mercy from your “Georgian” icon. You preserved the Krasnogorsk monastery undamaged from the burning of the fire in those days, having extinguished the fiery power that was raging around it, and in the reigning city of Moscow and in the desert of Raif, streams of grace flow from Your icon to all who worship You with faith, and in other cities and villages of ours who honor Give you something useful. Moreover, glorifying God, who has given us such grace in You, we cry out to Him: Alleluia.

Ikos 10

You are a strong wall, the Virgin Mary, the monastery of Krasnogorsk and the desert of Raifa, an indestructible fence, and to the monastic rank adornment and glory. For this reason, praying, we cry out to You, Most Pure One: cover with faith those who worship You before Your miraculous image from troubles and sorrows, crying out to You with love: Rejoice, strong Guardian from the misfortunes and troubles that come upon us; Rejoice, vigilant Guardian of the monastic monasteries. Rejoice, from the ferocious flame, in those days, the Krasnogorsk monastery, through the warm prayer of the monks, marvelously preserved; Rejoice, you who sent down the goodness of the air and the saving rain in good time. Rejoice, life of the monastic rite is ornament and kindness; Rejoice, you who save us in the storm of temptations and troubles. Rejoice, you who sanctify our thoughts; Rejoice, purifier of our hearts. Rejoice, you who extinguish the soul-destroying flame of our passions; Rejoice, dispelling the darkness of satanic temptations. Rejoice, you who bring down God’s blessing upon our life; Rejoice, guiding our mental desire to the heavenly abode. Rejoice, Unbrided Bride.

Kontakion 11

Singing of praise is brought to Thee, Lady, by the people of the God-saved city of Arkhangelsk, when their city alone in the summer is sanctified by the coming of Your miraculous image, and from the lamps and censers coming to meet it, they joyfully cry out to God: Alleluia.

Ikos 11

With the luminous rays of miracles, Your icon, O Lady, shines unwaveringly on the holy Red Mountain and graciously illuminates our Russian Orthodox country, driving away every dark action of the enemy by the power of God, urging us before You, God-chosen Youth, to sing songs of praise: Rejoice, unquenchable on the path of our salvation lamp of faith and piety; Rejoice, ray of the never-setting sun. Rejoice, unflickering star in our land of Orthodoxy; Rejoice, you who illuminate the path of virtue. Rejoice, dawn, revealing the sun of righteousness; Rejoice, light, driving away the darkness of ignorance. Rejoice, burning bush, who revealed God; Rejoice, fiery throne of the Almighty. Rejoice, treasure of purity; Rejoice, flower of unfading glory. Rejoice, most sanctified Divine village; Rejoice, for through You you have given joy to all who call upon You, Mother of God. Rejoice, Unbrided Bride.

Kontakion 12

You have shown Your grace, an inexhaustible source of Thy never-fading, inexhaustible source, O Mother of God, Thy miraculous icon, from whom all those who mourn and are burdened with sins of many accept salvation and healing at all times and joyfully sing about You to the all-good God: Alleluia.

Ikos 12

Singing Your glorious miracles, Mother of God, from Your holy icons endlessly given to us, and placing all our hope in You, the Intercessor, we cry out to You with tenderness: Rejoice, shameless hope of Christians in the future world; Rejoice, you who continue to save those who continue to do the commandments of Your Son. Rejoice, you who keep us healthy in this life; Rejoice, you who do not leave us in the terrible hour of death. Rejoice, Thou who arrangest the Christian death of Thy faithful servant; Rejoice, at the righteous judgment of Your Son, you made Your faithful servants worthy to hear His longed voice. Rejoice, for all who want to be saved and come into the mind of truth, the Good Hodegetria; Rejoice, all of you, in the contrition of the hearts of repentant sinners, there is undoubted salvation. Rejoice, through Your Nativity you have opened the doors of heaven to the world; Rejoice, you who united the earthly with the heavenly for eternal joy. Rejoice, ever sung by Angels; Rejoice, and deservedly honored by the earthly ones. Rejoice, Unbrided Bride.

Kontakion 13

Oh, all-sung Mother, Most Holy Lady, Virgin Theotokos, do not reject this little prayer that we humbly offer to You now before Your miraculous image, despising the abyss of our sins: deliver us all from the troubles and sorrows in this life and the future eternal torment of those who unhypocritically cry out for You To God: Alleluia.

(This kontakion is read three times, then ikos 1 and kontakion 1)

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