Burgas welcomes three miraculous icons of Virgin Mary , Bourgas, Burgas
Three miraculous icons of Virgin Mary's image of monasteries in Kiev / Ukraine / will visit in Bourgas 9, 10 and 11 September, Wednesday-Friday. They will be welcomed at 15.00 hours on 9 September in the Cathedral of St. Cyril and Methodius University, where he will stay for worship at 15.00 hours on 11 spetemvri. During their stay guests and citizens of the city will be able to make them their prayers.
These are icons Ephesus / Korsunska / St. Virgin, Virgin Uslishitelnitsa and Tihvinskata St. Virgin. They will be escorted from 8 monks headed by the abbot of the monastery in Kiev Arhimandrid Damian. Together with three icons and holy relics arrive in St. mironositsa isoapostolic and Mary Magdalene, the Holy Martyr Christina and others. spiritual protectors before God.
Before you arrive in Burgas miraculous icons will be exhibited in Pomorie temple "Transfiguration" and Temple St. Assumption in Nessebar. After his stay in Temple St. Cyril and Methodius "will visit the holy images and Silistra.
Ephesus Virgin Mary depicted Умиление - hug between Mary and Jesus. It was brought from Greece in 1162, when Polish Princess Euphrosyne izmolva of the Greek emperor and the patriarch of the icon of the Virgin Mary Ephesus and put it in a temple erected by the Merciful of Rescue in Poland. In 1239 Prince Alexander Nevsky married in the town Toropets the daughter of a Polish prince Bryachislav which carried over from Poland at the icon Toropetskata church.
Tihvinskata icon of the Virgin Mary, according to legend was the work of Luca evangelista. In the fall of Constantinople by the Turks, the icon disappears and appears later on the water to Tihvin, where he built a monastery. This icon is attributed to the salvation of the monastery by the Swedes in 1614.
The third icon of Virgin Uslishitelnitsa is so called because they heard the prayers of the people and was redrawn by Zograph fresco in a monastery.