Celebration in honor of the icon of the Mother of God, called «Sovereign» (15/03)

On March 15, according to the new style, Orthodox Christians honor the icon of the Mother of God, called «Sovereign».

The Blessed Virgin Mary appeared twice in a dream to the peasant woman Evdokia Adrianova. In February 1917, Evdokia heard the words of the Mother of God: «There is a large black icon in the village of Kolomenskoye. You need to take it — let them pray». And a few days later she saw a white temple and a majestic Wife sitting in it. The peasant woman decided to find the church she saw in her dream. On March 2 (March 15, new style) in the village of Kolomenskoye near Moscow, she recognized the same church she dreamed of in the Church of the Ascension of the Lord.

As a result of diligent searches undertaken together with the rector of the temple, a large dark icon of the Mother of God was found in the church basement — this was the image revealed to Evdokia.

The icon immediately began to be revered as miraculous, numerous lists were made from it, it was invited to perform prayer services in all surrounding villages, in many monasteries, churches, in factories and factories throughout Moscow.



The return of the miraculous icon significantly coincided with the liberation of Russia from the atheistic yoke. In the late 1980s, through the efforts of Metropolitan Pitirim (Nechaev) of Volokolamsk and Yuryev and Archimandrite Innokenty (Prosvirnin), the icon, according to the personal order of the museum director K.G. Levykina was secretly transferred to the Publishing Department of the Moscow Patriarchate, where she remained for several years in the altar of the house church in the name of St. Joseph of Volotsk.

On July 27, 1990, with the blessing of His Holiness Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow and All Rus', the clergy and Orthodox Muscovites solemnly moved the icon to Kolomenskoye, to the existing Kazan Church. The image was installed at the right choir of the temple. Since then, an akathist reading has been performed in front of the miraculous icon of the Mother of God «Sovereign» on Sundays.

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