Today, October 28, the Church celebrates in honor of the icon of the Mother of God “Spreader of the Loaves”translated

The celebration in honor of one of the most famous Russian icons of the Mother of God - “The Spreader of the Loaves” - is celebrated by the Orthodox Church on October 28.

In the icon, the Mother of God is depicted sitting on clouds. Her arms are open in blessing. Below is a compressed field, and on it, among herbs and flowers, sheaves of rye stand and lie.

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This image of the Mother of God was painted in the 19th century with the blessing of the elder of the Vvedenskaya Optina hermitage, St. Ambrose (+1891).

Throughout his life, Saint Ambrose of Optina especially revered the Mother of God, as well as all the holidays in Her honor, on which he prayed with special power.

With the icon “The Spreader of the Loaves,” the saint blessed the Shamordino convent he founded near the Optina Hermitage in honor of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God.

The first miracle from the icon was witnessed in 1891, when famine raged throughout Russia due to crop failure, and in the Kaluga region and in the fields of the Shamordino monastery, bread was lost.

In 1892, after the death of Elder Ambrose, his novice Ivan Cherepanov sent a list of the icon to the Pyatnitskaya convent in the Voronezh region. There was a drought and the threat of famine in that area, but after a prayer service in front of the miraculous icon I went...