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Position of the Robe of the Blessed Virgin Mary In the days of the Greek emperor Leo the Great (457–474), as he writes. Nikephoros Callistus, St. the brothers Galvius and Candide, of high rank, traveling to Palestine to worship holy places, found there in the house of a Jewish maiden the robe of the Most Holy Theotokos. This robe was inherited by the maiden from another Jewish maiden, was kept by them with great reverence and was successively, from the time of the blessed Dormition of the Mother of God, passed on from one maiden to another. Convinced by the testimony of pious people and the miraculous power of the robe that it was definitely the robe of our Most Holy Lady Theotokos, the pious travelers purchased it for themselves and, upon arriving in Constantinople, first kept it in their home church. When many people learned about the shrine they kept because of the signs of grace from it, Galvius and Candide announced their treasure to the emperor and patriarch Gennadius (458–461). According to the general advice, the chasuble was accepted and with great joy and triumph placed in 458 in the church of the Mother of God, built by the emperor Marcian and Pulcheria in Constantinople, on the shore of the bay called Blachernae: which is why the church itself is called Blachernae. In this church, the robe of the Mother of God, said Nicephorus Callistus in the 14th century, “is still preserved as an insurmountable and everlasting defense for the city, providing various healings and conquering nature and time with its miracles.” Since the placement of the robe of the Mother of God in the Blachernae Church, the Church annually on July 2 celebrates the placement of the honorable robe of the Most Holy. Our Lady Theotokos, thanks to St. Virgin, that She bestowed the robe of Her body as a “sovereign tax upon the city.” In 626, the miraculous power of the robe of the Mother of God was experienced by the Persians and Avars, in 673 and 716 by the Saracens; and in 866 Askold and Dir, Russian knights. During the siege of Constantinople by the Avars, Saracens, Askold and Dir, the miraculous robe of the Mother of God, during the prayers of numerous people, was worn along the walls of the city, and the storm that arose on this occasion crushed the fleet of the besieging enemies. Askold and Dir, who sought to conquer Byzantium, were conquered by God's providence to Jesus Christ, accepted the Christian faith and ended their earthly lives in its shadow. In the 9th century, Joseph the Studite wrote a canon for the day of placing the robe of the Virgin Mary, now sung by the Church on this day. The initial letters of the canon, or borderline, contain the saying: “I honor the robe of the Most Pure Virgin,” and among other praises of the robe, he cries out: “let us more honorably touch the robe, with which the Lord was enshrined, as the youth wore it.” The Apostle at the Liturgy on the day of placing the robe of the Mother of God, the Church speaks about the tabernacle and its accessories, which prefigured the Most Holy. Virgin Mary (Heb. 9:1–9); and the Gospel is common to the days of the Theotokos (Luke 10:28–42, 11:27–28). Russian Metropolitan Pimen, in 1387, mentions that on the day of placing the robe of the Mother of God he was in Blachernae and kissed St. shrine, in which lie the chasuble and belt of the Virgin Mary. Part of the robe of the Mother of God, through the diligence of Prince Vasily Golitsyn, was brought to Russia and is now kept in the Moscow Assumption Cathedral. St. Juvenal, Patriarch of Jerusalem Juvenal ascended the throne in 420 and labored a lot for Orthodoxy. For when the heresy of Nestorius began to spread (in 429), St. Juvenal affirmed the Orthodox teaching and at the Third Ecumenical Council in Ephesus (431) he condemned the false teaching. At the end of the reign of Theodosius the Younger, the heresy of Eutyches and Dioscorus arose, and Theodosius' successor, Marcian, convened (451) an Ecumenical Council in Chalcedon; Juvenaly was also among the fathers of the council. But when he returned to Jerusalem in January 452, he found that a certain monk Theodosius had already outraged Palestine with the news that the Council of Chalcedon had perverted the faith and was introducing Nestorianism; the clergy forced him to anathematize the council's definitions and even sent an assassin to him. But the killer made a mistake and struck the Bishop of Scythopolis. Then Juvenal fled to Constantinople, and Theodosius ruled in Jerusalem as a patriarch for eighteen months and persecuted the Orthodox. Finally, the unrest was pacified by military force, Theodosius fled to Sinai and disappeared there, and Juvenal again took the throne in July 453. Died in 458. In the history of the Divine Service, he is famous for the fact that he moved the feast of the Nativity of Christ to December 25 from January 6; for until then they still celebrated the Nativity of Christ and the Epiphany together, that is, January 6th. Celebration of the Akhtyrka Icon of the Mother of God For a long time, in the city of Akhtyrka there was a parish church in the name of the Intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary. With her in 1739, Daniil Vasiliev, a virtuous and pious man, was a priest. When haymaking began, he bought a new scythe and, wanting to experience its kindness, went out to his garden and began to mow the grass; but he swung his scythe no more than twice when he saw in the grass the icon of the Mother of God with the crucifixion of the Lord Jesus, shining with an indescribable light. The priest was struck with such fear that the scythe fell from his trembling hands. Having protected himself with the sign of the cross, he began to read the prayers of the Mother of God that he could only remember. Having bowed three times to the icon of the Mother of God, he brought it into his house and placed it in a decent place. For three years this icon was in the priest's house. His family noticed that it was impossible to spend the night in this room where the icon stood due to some incomprehensible fear. Three years later, on the Feast of the Intercession, the priest entered the room where the icon stood, and just as unexpectedly, as the first time, he was struck by the strong, bright, like the sunshine, light from the icon. He saw such light from the icon more than once, but did not tell any strangers about it, not even his family. One day, in a dream, the Mother of God appeared to him and ordered the icon he had found to be washed with clean water and covered with a veil. The priest immediately woke up from sleep, wiped the dust from the icon, washed it with water and collected the water in a special vessel, intending to take it to the river in the morning. With these thoughts he fell asleep and that same night he saw that he was going to the river, carrying with him a vessel of water with which he had washed the icon; Suddenly, on the way, the Mother of God meets him in the form of a wonderful Virgin and says: “Where are you going with this water? Return to your house and store the water; it will be healing for those suffering from fever.” The priest got up from sleep and, having a daughter in his house suffering from this disease, wanted to know the truth of the vision he had and gave her this water to drink. His daughter immediately recovered; Likewise, others who suffered from fever, as soon as they drank this water, immediately recovered. Meanwhile, the priest noticed scratches in the paint on the icon, called an icon painter to him and instructed him to correct the icon. The icon painter took it, brought it home and placed it in a decent place. Two days later, when the icon painter was about to begin work, at night he heard in a dream a voice from the icon, who called him by name and said: “Get up, it’s time for you to take the icon to where you took it; You can’t fix it better than this.” The icon painter woke up in horror, reverently took the icon and at dawn that same day took it to the priest, announcing the voice he had heard. The priest, seeing the special grace of the Mother of God above the icon, decided to bring the icon into the parish church, and here this icon especially shone with the glory of miracles. Celebration of the Theodotevskaya Icon of the Mother of God In 1487, within the boundaries of Ryazan, in an empty place called Old, near the village of Feodotyev, an icon of the Mother of God appeared, named from this Feodotyevskaya. By order of the Grand Duke of Ryazan and the blessing of the bishop, the icon was transferred to Ryazan for the protection and salvation of Ryazan and placed with due honor in the cathedral church of the Assumption. In 1611, by the will of Theodoret, Archbishop of Ryazan, the list was removed from her and sent to the village of Feodotyevo. In 1714, the icon of the Theodotevskaya Mother of God was renewed, and an icon case was made for it. In the icon, the Infant God is depicted on the left hand of the Mother of God, blessing with his right hand, and holding a scroll in his left. In the house of a Ryazan resident, a retired sergeant, his sister-in-law, Ksenia, was lying sick. She was deprived of vision and her eyes did not open for 13 weeks. On March 19, 1812, the icon of the Theodotevskaya Mother of God was with their neighbor; the sick sister went there to bring the icon to her home. At this time, the patient seemed to take a nap, and in a dream an unknown wife appeared to her and said: “Get up, a great guest will soon come to you, and you will see her.” The patient answered: “I am blind and cannot see.” “Trust me, you will see,” answered the unknown wife. The patient woke up and wondered what this vision meant. Soon they brought the icon and began to serve a prayer service; During the akathist, the patient’s eyes began to seem worried, which was noticeable to everyone. At the end of the prayer service, when they began to sing: “O All-Singing Mother,” the patient’s eyes suddenly opened, she clearly saw the light and said: “Glory to God, glory to God.”