Orthodox calendar: November 12 – celebration of the Ozeryansk Icon of the Mother of Godtranslated

24th Week after Pentecost.

Today, November 12, 2026, the Orthodox Church celebrates the celebration of the Ozeryanskaya Icon of the Mother of God and honors the memory of the saint. Zinovia, bishop Egeisky, and his sister Zinovia (285); App. from the 70 Tertius, Mark, Justus and Artema (I); sschmch. Marciana, bishop Syracuse (II); mts. Eutropia of Alexandria (c. 250); mts. Anastasia Solunskaya (III); St. Stefan Milutin, King of Serbia (1320), his brother Dragutin (1316) and their mother Helen (1306) (Serb.); sschmch. Matthew the Deacon (1942); finding the relics of St. Agathangela Spanish, Met. Yaroslavsky (1998).

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Not far from Kharkov, in the Transfiguration Kuryazhsky Monastery, the miraculous image of the Mother of God of Ozeryansk was kept. According to legend, the image was revealed at the end of the 16th century near the village of Ozeryany - hence the name of the icon; Subsequently, a monastery arose on this site, which also received the name Ozeryanskaya.

They say that a certain Ukrainian peasant was mowing the grass and cut the image of the Mother of God in half with a scythe... Realizing that his act, even if not intentional, was terrible for him and for those around him, the man lifted the two halves of the icon, with...