The Trubchev Icon of the Mother of God: what are prayed for, and where is the

In the history of Christianity, a great many icon painters. And only a few of them managed to create miraculous images. More precisely, God made them miraculous, allowed them to be so, in order to help people, preserve and multiply faith. The Trubchev Icon of the Mother of God is one of these icons. Her story is very interesting.

The history of the icon

In 1765, in the city of Trubchevsk, located in the Bryansk region (formerly Orel province), the hieromonk, who in the Cholna monastery was called Euphemia, wrote an icon. On the icon he portrayed the Virgin with the Savior in his arms. The head of the Ever-Virgin was crowned with a crown. The fact that the icon was painted by Hieromonk Evfimiy is evidenced by the inscription on the very image of the Virgin - "1765 EVF". When donations were collected for the Trinity-Scanner Monastery, the monk had nothing more valuable than the Trubchev Icon of the Mother of God.

Trinity-Scans monastery - the refuge of the Trubchev Icon

The Trinity-Scans monastery was in the town of Narovchat and belonged to the Penza diocese.

The monastery is famous for its caves, which are longer than the caves of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra. The caves in the last stretch for five hundred and more meters, and in the Trinity-Scan monastery - two kilometers. In the caves settled monks, leading a hermit's way of life with the blessing of the abbot of the monastery, carrying obedience, accomplishing the feat of fasting and prayer, testing themselves and their faith.

The Trubchev Icon of the Mother of God performed many miracles, and they did not keep themselves waiting. It is a pity that the documentary confirmation of the phenomena emanating from the icon did not remain - the fire in the monastery took with it all the documents stored there.

Miraculous image

Mother of God Trubchevskaya, according to old-timers, saved many people from cholera in the 19th century, the epidemic of which twice overcame Narovchat and its environs. People were in a panic. They came to the monks and asked for help. Monks and all the local people made the procession, with the removal of the miraculous image of the Ever-Virgin from the walls of the monastery, around the city. Prayers were heard, the Mother of God saw the zeal of the faithful. After that, the epidemic stopped, and monks in general did not know what diseases are from then on. People believed in the miraculous power of the icon. Trubchev Icon of the Mother of God rose in a number of especially revered, to her people stretched.

When the temple was built in honor of the icon

Not far from the burial place of those who died from the invasion of cholera, people who thanked for their salvation built a church in honor of the Trubchevsky Virgin. The temple was consecrated on October 3, according to the old, on October 16, according to a new style, in 1853. Since then, the icon of the Trubchev Icon is venerated especially. The believers, gathering in the church, remember how the Trubchev Icon of the Mother of God helps people. The Akathist is recited in honor of her on this day. During his history, the image has gone through a lot. But according to God's will the icon has reached our days.

Heavy testing

The power of the Bolsheviks was a test for many people, especially believers. Red Army soldiers ravaged and closed churches, destroyed everything that was associated with religion. This fate and the Trinity-Scans monastery did not pass, and with it the miraculous image of the Virgin. In the 30 years of the twentieth century, the new government closed the monastery, organizing a poultry farm there. The caves, in which monastic hermits once lived, were blown up. There are only 600 meters from the two-kilometer caves. All decoration was looted, and the Trubchev Icon of the Mother of God was turned into a stand for museum exhibits in the regional museum of local lore A.I. Kuprin. All the precious decoration from the icon was removed. And, of course, no one cared about the safety of the miraculous canvas, even put indoor flowers on the holy image. In 1975, they produced in the museum another inventory and wrote that the Trubchev Icon of the Mother of God was lost. But 18 years later, thanks to the search for the missing museum values, the image of the Virgin, written in Trubchevsk, was found in the storages of the same museum.

Wonderful return of the icon

When the Mother of God Trubchevskaya returned to the Trinity-Scanned Monastery (in 1993), three lists were made from her. Once a miracle image decided to take a picture. According to the memoirs of journalist V.A. Polyakova, who is at this time in the temple, the day turned out to be extremely cloudy. The clouds covered the whole sky, leaving no lumen. The angle in which the icon hung was barely illuminated by the lamp. The visitor, taking a camera and aiming the lens at the icon, decided that, although it would be futile to make high-quality pictures, but still need to try. Suddenly a sunshine flooded the trellised window under the very dome of the temple, illuminating the image of the Ever-Virgin so that he played with colors, and a halo appeared over the head of the Virgin. Only two or three pictures had time to make before the sun again disappeared behind impenetrable clouds. All who were present at that moment unanimously decided that the icon rejoiced in returning to the temple. By the way, it was Polyakov - not only a journalist, but also a local historian - who did everything possible to find the icon. Of course, after negligent handling of it during the years of Soviet power, the icon was badly damaged, it was all covered with mold, the board and the canvas were ruined. But the miraculous icon was restored in the Holy Trinity-St. Sergius Lavra. Restoration lasted a long nine months. But the image was brought back to life.

Theotokos Trubchevskaya again works wonders

At first, the miracles coming from the icon were just a legend. But faith, the Trubchev Icon of the Mother of God, prayer - zealous, with a broken heart - do their work. Today, as well as many decades ago, many people are saved by the grace of the Queen of Heaven. The Trubchev Icon helps to defeat illnesses and troubles. The only difference is that earlier it was cholera, and now - no less terrible tuberculosis, cancer and many other diseases. To this icon there are no such queues as to the Matron of Moscow, but behind the glass on the chain there are so many gold ornaments brought in gratitude for the prolongation of life or the birth of a child, for salvation from death or getting rid of addiction. Each item is a witness of a miracle created by prayer to the Mother of God.

The first of the modern miracles occurred in the early 2000s. Mom of a four-year-old girl told the abbot of the monastery that her daughter does not talk, and she received advice to pray at the miraculous face of the Virgin. The woman prayed, then her daughter was anointed with oil from the lamp, burning at the icon. A few days later, the girl's mom said that the baby began to talk.

Modern testimonies of the miraculous icon

The nuns of the Trinity-Scan monastery can recall a lot of stories of the parishioners helped by the icon of Trubchev. The prayer at the icon of a resident of Penza, who was discharged from a cancer center with the last stage of cancer, gave her the opportunity to come to the monastery for more than seven years, gratitude to the face of the Mother of God and replenish the oil reserves, all from the same lamp, which covers the Trubchev Icon of the Mother of God .

What are they praying for while standing in front of the miraculous face? For example, an aunt living in the city of Saransk, came to the monastery to pray for her niece from America. Then the staff, in which the niece's house was located, was hit by a powerful hurricane, erasing, as it turned out later, a whole city from the face of the earth. But one house nevertheless survived - the house of that same niece on a piece of land with a radius of about ten meters. What is this, if not a miracle? It is a miracle performed by the Trubchev Icon of the Mother of God, prayer and faith.

And nuns can remember the story about mother and daughter, a drug addict from a sect of Protestants. The exhortations of the abbess of the monastery to confess and soboratsya not convinced them. Women said that only when they see the miracle with their own eyes, then they will believe. After these words, her daughter's legs were so swollen that she could not move, and when the girl went through the sacrament of sabotage, the swelling went by itself. A few years later, this girl returned to the monastery without her mother, but with her husband and a beautiful daughter.

The Trubchev Icon of the Mother of God: where is it?

Returning to the Trinity-Scans monastery, the icon still occupies an honorable place there. Not only the inhabitants of Russia come to the icon to pray, but also believers from other countries. The Mother of God Trubchevskaya enjoys special reverence among Catholics. The image of the Virgin in the crown is atypical for Orthodoxy, but the phenomenon widespread among Catholics. Due to the constant change of belonging to this or that state in the 14th and 18th centuries, Trubchevsk and other settlements in this area were exposed to the influence of Western Christian culture. Apparently, hence the crown of the Mother of God. In Trubchevsk itself, before the revolution, there were several lists of the Trubchev Icon. Through the monastery, where the icon is located, many pilgrims have passed and are still passing. This shrine is revered in many countries of the world.

Believe in God or not believe, of course, everyone's business. But, regardless of the faith of every person, miracles sent in the form of healings, salvation from death, through prayers to certain icons, have occurred and will occur. Faced with such cases, which can not be explained, except for the help of the higher powers - the Lord, the Blessed Virgin Mary and other saints - a person says that this is a miracle. Even atheists start to think about the existence of God. The Trubchev Icon of the Mother of God, like other miraculous icons, helps people to find and strengthen faith.