la Madre di Dio al 23 luglio

 

 

L'icône de la Mère de Dieu de Potchaïev (Volhynie 1559). (Autre commémoration le 8 septembre.)

 

 

Commémoration de l'apparition miraculeuse de la Mère de Dieu, qui sauva le monastère de Potchaïev de l'attaque des Turcs et des Tatars (Volhynie 1675).

 

 

In inglese ho trovato questo:

 

The Pochaev Icon of the Mother of God is among the most venerable sacred items of the Orthodox Church. Located at the Dormition Cathedral, Pochaev, Ukraine, the icon is renowned throughout the Slavic world and is venerated by Orthodox Christians throughout the world. Christians of other confessions also come to venerate the wonderworking image of the Most Holy Theotokos, together with the Orthodox. The wonderworking icon has been kept at the Pochaev Lavra, an ancient bastion of Orthodoxy, for about 400 years. (The account of the transfer of the icon to the Pochaev monastery is found under September 8). The miracles which issued forth from the holy icon are numerous and are testified to in the monastery books with the signatures of the faithful who have been delivered from unclean spirits, liberated from captivity, and sinners brought to their senses.

In the year 1721, Pochaev was occupied by Uniates. Even in this difficult time for the Lavra, the monastery chronicle notes 539 miracles from the glorified Orthodox icon. During the time of the Uniate rule in the second half of the eighteenth century, for example, the Uniate nobleman Count Nicholas Pototski became a benefactor of the Pochaev Lavra through the following miraculous circumstance. Having accused his coachman of overturning the carriage with frenzied horses, the count took out a pistol to shoot him. The coachman, turning towards Pochaev Hill, reached his hands upwards and cried out: "Mother of God, manifest in the Pochaev Icon, save me!" Pototski several times tried to shoot the pistol, which had never let him down, but the weapon misfired. The coachman remained alive. Pototski then immediately went to the wonderworking icon and decided to devote himself and all his property to the building-up of the monastery. From his wealth the Dormition cathedral was built, as well as buildings for the brethren.

The return of Pochaev into the bosom of Orthodoxy in 1832 was marked by the miraculous healing of the blind maiden Anna Akimchukova, who had come on pilgrimage to the holy things together with her seventy-year-old grandmother from Kremenets-Podolsk, 200 versts away. In memory of this event, the Volhynia archbishop and Lavra archimandrite Innocent (1832-1840) established the reading of the Akathist on Saturdays before the wonderworking icon. During the time of Archimandrite Agathangelus, Archbishop of Volhynia (1866-1876), a separate chapel was constructed in the galleries of the Holy Trinity church in memory of the victory over the Tatars, which was dedicated on July 23, 1875.

The Pochaev Icon is also commemorated on Friday of Bright Week and on September

IN ITALIANO-MA NON E' A TRADUZIONE   L'apparizione Mariana avvenne nel 1340 a due monaci che stavano pregando sulla cima della collina di Pochaiev (Volinia), luogo su cui più tardi sorgerà la celeberrima Lavra. Anche un guardiano di greggi ebbe la medesima visione e tutti e 3 si inginocchiarono lodando Dio. La Madre di Dio lasciò l'impronta del suo piede destro nella roccia. nel XVI secolo un metropolita di Costantinopoli in visita pastorale agli ortodossi della Volinia regalò ad una nobildonna l'Icona Mariana che aveva con sè. Questa Icona si dimostrò subito taumaturgica effettuando molti miracoli (tra cui la guarigione del fratello della citata nobile) tanto che la nobildonna portò l'Icona nella chiesa costruita sul luogo dell'apparizione e dedicata alla Dormizione della Deipara e nel contempo finanziò i lavori di costruzione di un monastero, la Laura di Pochaiev per l'appunto. Il monastero conserva ancora i registri di tutti i miracoli avvenuti (molte centinaia) e proseguiti anche dopo la sciagurata occupazione della Laura da parte degli Uniati (XVIII secolo), grazie a Dio questa parentesi fu breve e nel XIX secolo questo bastione dell'Ortodossia ritornò nelle mani della corretta Fede e subito si verificò un altro miracolo: la restituzione della vista ad una nobile che vi era andata in pellegrinaggio.

 

http://www.johnsanidopoulos.com/2009/07/icons-of-mother-of-god-joy-of-all-who.html
 

L'icône de la Mère de Dieu "JOIE DE TOUS LES AFFLIGES" où l'Enfantrice de Dieu distribue des kopecks aux pauvres (1888).