Historical memory: July 15 - the feast of the Placing of the Robe of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Blachernae (Constantinople) - the day of remembrance of the liberation of Moscow from the troops of the Horde prince Mazovsha in 1451translated

In the middle of the 5th century, close associates of the Byzantine emperor, the brothers Galbius and Candide, went from Constantinople to Palestine to worship holy places. In a small village near Nazareth, they stopped for the night with an elderly Jewish woman. Having learned that the Robe of the Most Holy Theotokos was kept here, from which many miracles and healings occurred, the brothers took the shrine to Constantinople. Soon in the suburbs [...]