"Mirozh" Icon
24 September/7 October
In Pskov, near the source of the Mirozh river, stands
the men’s Spassky Monastery [Monastery of the Savior], established in the
year 1156.Before the Revolution,
it held the Miraculous Mirozh Sign Icon of the Theotokos.
On that Icon, the Most-holy Theotokos was depicted standing at
full-length.At her right hand
stood the Righteous Dovmont (in Holy Baptism Timothy), Prince of Pskov, and at
her left, his wife, Princess Maria Dimitrievna; both shown in an attitude of
prayer.Miraculous flowing of
tears from the Icon, and many other miracles wrought while a plague epidemic
was raging in Pskov during the reign of Ivan IV Vasilievitch, caused the Icon
to be glorified on 24 September 1567.A
special service composed in honor of the Mirozh Icon of the Theotokos was
published in 1666.
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