Vyazniki, Vladimir Province, Russia, July 23, 2024
Photo: azbyka.ru On Sunday, July 21, celebrations in honor of the 400th anniversary of the glorification of the wonderworking Vyazniki Kazan Icon of the Mother of God were held in the Murom Diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church.
The Divine Liturgy was celebrated by His Eminence Metropolitan Tikhon of Vladimir and Suzdal and three other hierarchs at the Holy Trinity Cathedral in Vyazniki, Vladimir Province, reports Patriarchia.ru.
At the end of the service, a procession was held from the Holy Trinity Church to the Cathedral Square in Vyazniki, which a moleben at the restored bell tower of the Kazan Cathedral that was destroyed during the Soviet era.
The Vyazniki Kazan Icon of the Mother of God was located in the cathedral in Vyazniki, where it became famous for numerous miracles of healing and consolation.
In 1624, an investigation of the miracles was carried out with the blessing of His Holiness Patriarch Philaret of Moscow.
Church chronicles testify:
In the year 7132 from the Creation of the World, and 1624 from the birth of Christ, on October 11, by decree of the great sovereign Mikhail Feodorovich and with the blessing of His Holiness Patriarch Philaret of Moscow and All Russia, Archimandrite Porfiry of the Vladimir Nativity Monastery, along with Abbot Varsonofy of the Spaso-Zlatovratsky Monastery, and the cathedral’s archpriest with priests and deacons were sent to Vyazniki to witness miracles from the icon of the Kazan Mother of God. On October 13, during the Divine Liturgy, the sexton Irodion, who had been mentally impaired and suffered from an internal ailment for many years, was healed by this icon. At the same time, during the moleben, a peasant woman named Ksenia Semenova from the village of Nasekino, Vladimir County, of the Nativity Monastery, who had been blind in one eye for several years, was healed. Having come to pray to the Most Holy Mother of God as promised, she drank holy water, washed her eyes, after which she regained her sight. The aforementioned archimandrite witnessed these miracles and ordered other miracles that had occurred from the icon of the Most Holy Mother of God to be described as well.
Thus, the icon was formally recognized as miraculous.
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