In 1689, a moleben was being sung in the Ascension Monastery in Moscow. Someone forgot to extinguish
the candle before leaving the church. The candle fell, and the flames burned
up the analogion upon which the Kazan Icon lay. Yet, neither the Icon itself,
which was written on canvas, nor the cloth upon which the icon rested suffered
any damage.
In a fire in the Kremlin on June 19, 1701, the Royal Palace and the Ascension Monastery were consumed by flames. During that fire, Schema-nun Ioanna, daughter of Prince Baratynsky, entered his tomb, where the Kazan Icon of the Theotokos hung. She prayed before it: “O Most-holy Theotokos, thou who didst thyself save thine Image from harm, save also me, thine unworthy servant!” After fervently praying, she left the monastery. The Icon remained behind. The liturgical vessels and icons were removed from the Cathedral Church of the Ascension, and taken beyond the Kremlin, to the Church of the Holy Trinity on the moat. In the course of an inventory taken to see whether everything had been removed from the church, they found the Kazan Icon among the others. All were at a loss to say how that Icon got there, as no one had taken it from the church. After the fire, as they were just beginning to return things to the church, and before they even thought about bringing in the Kazan Icon, they found it in its usual place.
Many miraculous healings, which took place before that Holy Icon, are among the miracles described in the annals of the Ascension Monastery.
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