The all-Russian shrine - the miraculous icon of the Mother of God "Tenderness" arrives in Kamchatkatranslated

The image of the Most Holy Theotokos “Tenderness” from the Pskov-Pechersky Monastery arrives in the Petropavlovsk and Kamchatka diocese.

The Pskov-Pechersk Icon of the Mother of God “Tenderness” was painted in 1521 by the pious hieromonk Arseny Khitrosh from the Icon of the Mother of God “Vladimir” and belongs to the Eleus icon painting type.

It was brought to the Pskov-Pechersky Monastery in 1529-1570 by merchants Vasily and Theodore during the abbess of St. Cornelius. Since then, more than once the icon has shown its mercy and miraculous help to the Orthodox Russian people.

The icon gained particular fame and veneration throughout Rus' during the Livonian War, when the 100,000-strong Polish-Lithuanian army was unable to take the city after a 5-month siege and 30 assaults on the Pskov Kremlin. In memory of the miraculous deliverance of Pskov from the siege under Tsar Theodore Ioannovich, the icon is decorated with an icon case.

During the War of 1812, on the day when the religious procession with the icons of the Mother of God “Tenderness” and “Assumption” took place, Russian troops recaptured Polotsk, and Pskov was out of danger. In memory of this event, a new church was erected in the Pskov-Pechersk monastery in honor of the Holy Archangel Michael, and the miraculous image of the Mother of God “Tenderness” was...