Celebration in honor of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God (04/11)

The autumn holiday of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God — is a holiday in honor of the day of the liberation of Moscow and Russia from the Poles in 1612.

For a long time in Rus' this day was celebrated as a public holiday. The whole country glorified one of the most beloved Kazan images of the Mother of God, who showed her wonderful intercession for Rus' during the Time of Troubles.

In 1737, the revered image of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God was moved to St. Petersburg to the Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, on the site of which a cathedral (Kazan Cathedral) was built in the 1810s.

The Kazan icon was in the militia led by Kuzma Minin and Prince Dimitri Pozharsky when Russian troops liberated the Kremlin and Moscow from the enemy. In memory of this event, the Kazan Cathedral was erected on Red Square, which was liquidated in the summer of 1936.

A significant event was celebrated on November 4, 1993, when the restored Kazan Cathedral was opened in Moscow on Red Square.



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