Icon of the Mother of God "Nursing the Child"

 

The original icon was initially kept in the Monastery of St.Sabbas the Sanctified (d.531), 17 versts from the city of Jerusalem. Shortly before his demise, he prophesied that a time would come when the cloister would be visited by a pilgrim by the name of Sabbas, coming from the Serbian royal family, and it was to him that the Icon of the Mother of God "Nursing the Child" was to be given together with a blessing. Indeed, in the 13th century the cloister was visited by St. Sava (Sabbas), the Archbishop of Serbia, to whom the Icons of the Mother of God "Nursing the Child" and "The Three-Handed" were handed over. Later on, St.Sava the Serbian turned the Icon of the Mother of God "Nursing the Child" to the Chiliandari Monastery on Mount Athos. The icon's miraculous power has been known in Russia since the 19th century. In 1860, in the Kursk Gubernia, a sick man who had been bedridden and unable to move for at least a year suddenly recovered when he kissed a copy of the holy image sent over from Mount Athos. In 1862, the house of a certain believer was twice delivered from a fire due to his prayers before the Icon of the Mother of God "Nursing the Child." Feast day: January 12/25.