Orthodox calendar: October 1 – celebration of the icons of the Mother of God “Old Russian” and “Healer”translated

18th Week after Pentecost.

Today, October 1, 20256, the Orthodox Church celebrates the celebration of the icons of the Mother of God “Old Russian” and “Healer” and honors the memory of St. Evmenia, bishop Gortynsky (VII); mts. Ariadne (II); mcc. Sofia and Irina (III); mchch. Bidzina, Shalva and Elizbar, princes of Ksani (1660) (Georgian); glorification of St. Euphrosyne of Suzdal, in the world of Theodulia (1698); St. Hilarion Optinsky (1873); martyr Castor. Sschmchch. Alexy and Peter presbyters (1918); sschmch. Amphilochia, bishop. Krasnoyarsk, John, Boris, Mikhail, Vladimir, Veniamin, Konstantin presbyters and martyr. Sergius (1937); Council of New Martyrs and Confessors of the Land of Vladimir; Molchenskaya (1405), called “Healer” (XVIII), and the Old Russian Icon of the Mother of God.

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The Old Russian Icon of the Mother of God is so called because it was for a long time in Staraya Russa (a city in the Novgorod region), where it was brought by the Greeks from Olviopolis in the first times of Christianity in Rus'. The icon was in Staraya Russa until the 17th century. During the pestilence of 1655, one resident of the city of Tikhvin had a revelation that the pestilence would end if the miraculous Old Russian icon was brought there, and the Tikhvin...