August 5/July 23 – commemoration of the miracle of the appearance of the Mother of God on Mount Pochaev to save the Lavra from the invasion of the Turks (1675)translated

In July 1675, mortal danger loomed over the Pochaev Lavra, glorified by the exploits of St. Job. This happened under the Polish king Jan Sobieski. Let's talk about this story in the words of a historian, the author of the “chronicle about Little Russia”:

“Mohammed IV, the Sultan, intended to take revenge on Poland for the violation of the Budzhak (or Buchak - ed.) peace and for the defeat of the troops at Khotyn. He, entrusting his army to the new vizier Kara-Mustafa, sent him with him to Poland... The Turkish vizier went to Podolia and impaled the long-living Volokhs there. After the capture of the city, he carried out the same execution in Mikulin; then he took the Podarets fortress into agreement, razed it, disgraced churches and cemeteries and plundered the estate. For this, through treason, he received Zbarazh... and having located his camp near Zbarazh, he sent 50,000 people of the cavalry of the Turks and Tatars, under the leadership of Nuredin, the Tatar Sultan, in order to launch an attack on the king and deprive him of his quarters and devastate everything on his way... Purredin Sultan, following to Lvov, everything that was in his way, with sword and fire captured..."

And on the path of this victorious army there was a small and unprotected Orthodox monastery of Pochaevsky.…