Рождество Богородицы
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The first news about the Lord Savior was announced to our first parents Adam and Eve immediately after their fall, in the most joyful words that the seed of the woman would erase the head of the serpent, that is, from one wife without a husband a Man would be born, who is the Eternal God, and He would crush the power of the devil (Gen. 3:14).
The Savior appeared in the world not soon after the fall of people, but after more than five thousand years. One of the reasons for the late appearance of the God-man Savior in the world was that there was no such holy virgin from whom He could receive the most pure flesh and blood of men. It was necessary to pass many centuries and millennia so that, through the inheritance of great virtues from many generations, this most pure and most blessed Virgin could appear in the world.
Her parents came from two of the most glorious branches of the Jewish family: Joachim from the royal family of David and Anna from the priestly family of Aaron. God gave them a daughter, Mary, through their prayers, as a reward for their righteous life, already in their old age.
Nativity of the Virgin Mary. The icon depicting the Nativity of the Mother of God is located in the Church of the Life-Giving Trinity on the Sparrow Hills (Moscow) in the chapel of St. Sergius as part of a four-part icon of the 19th century. (Nativity of Christ, the Mother of God, John the Baptist and St. Nicholas the Wonderworker). The author of the painting is Fyodor Andreevich Bronnikov (1827–1902).
The wooden Trinity Church has been known since the 15th century. At the beginning of the 19th century, construction began on a stone church, which was generally completed in 1811. In 1812, M.I. prayed here before the council in Fili. Kutuzov. The building survived the Napoleonic invasion. The church was being renovated in 1858-61, when the icon was created. This church is the only one in Moscow that was not damaged in any situation and in which bells always rang (even during the period of the Stalinist ban).
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