This icon became known as a worker of miracles in the year 1771. In that year throughout Russia, and especially in the city of Kozlov, plague was rampant. The city residents did not know what to do, seeing no help from any quarter. On the gate of the home of a certain merchant in Kozlov there hung an icon of the Bogolyubskaya Icon of the Mother of God. It was revealed to a pious priest named John that he was to remove the icon from the gates and carry it in a procession of the cross - after which the plague disappeared. In commemoration of this miracle, the grateful citizens decided to have processions of the cross around the city every year on October 23, the day on which they were miraculously delivered from the plague. The grace-filled icon was placed in a silver and gilt frame decorated with various stones, and was installed in an elegant shrine. A chapel dedicated to the miraculous image was built onto the Protection Cathedral, and later a magnificent cathedral dedicated to the Bogolyubskaya Mother of God was erected.