Kiev, September 17, 2018
Wonderworking Icons of the Mother of God: Assuage My Sorrows (left), Osychky (center), Trigor (right). Photo: news.church.ua The commission for the canonization of saints of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church has reviewed the materials on the glorification of three wonderworking icons of the Mother of God and submitted them to the Holy Synod.
The three icons are the Assuage My Sorrows Icon from the St. George Monastery in the village of Gorodnitsa, the Osychky Icon from the Diocese of Balta, and the Trigor Icon from the village of the same name.
The Assuage My Sorrows Icon was transferred to the Polesie Region by monks of the Holy Mountain in 1903, during which it manifested many miracles. The miraculous icon was placed in St. George’s Monastery in Gorodnitsa. The icon was temporarily moved during the communist years but returned to the monastery in 1944. The monastic life was revived in the monastery in 1979, with both monks and nuns struggling there. The icon is kept in the Cathedral of St. George the Victorious.
The Osychky Icon takes its name from the village of Osychky in the Odessa Province, founded in the 18th century. The icon was kept in a wooden church in honor of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker. At one point, a local military leader commanded the church to be closed and the icon to be relocated, but the icon was soon returned after the colonel became very ill and realized it was a threatening sign from the Mother of God herself. He promised to build a new church, which was consecrated in 1851, and was the home of the miraculous Osychky Icon ever since. Many people were healed of various diseases through the icon. The icon was lost when the church was closed by communists, but many houses in the village and the local monastery have copies of the icon.
The history of the Trigor Icon of the Mother of God is connected with hermits that lived on the banks of the Teteriv River from ancient times. The number of monks increased and developed into the Holy Trinity Monastery in the 12th century. How and when the icon appeared in the monastery is unknown. The icon was barely saved from destruction in the soviet years. The state archives contain a report from the monastery’s abbot about the 19678 healing of a boy mute from childhood. The icon is today kept in the Transfiguration Church of the Trigor Monastery in the Zhytomyr Diocese.
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