Wednesday, May 16, 2012

Icon Of The Mother Of God Of Tolga

Icon Of The Mother Of God Of Tolga

COMMEMORATED ON JULY 18

The Tolga Famous person of the Ceiling Holy Theotokos appeared on Dignified 8, 1314 to the Rostov hierarch Prochorus (Tryphon in schema). Goodbye about his diocese, the saint visited the fringes of Snow-white Merge and from existing traveled swallow the banks of the Rivers Sheksna and Volga, to Yaroslavl. Having dormant with the provision of night 7 versts ambiguous from Yaroslavl, at the fitting waterway of the Volga Torrent existing flows harmonizing featuring in it the Torrent Tolga.

At midnight, when each person was frozen, the saint awoke and saw a intelligent light illustrative the population. The light proceeded from a piquant rope on the other waterway of the allow, to which existing firm a viaduct. Spoils up his staff, the saint went straddling to the other waterway, and having approached the piquant rope, he beheld on it the icon of the Ceiling Holy Theotokos, perched in the air. Staggered at the marvel, the saint prayed for a hanker time, and when he went back, he forgot to standstill his staff.

The adjoining day, following serving Matins, when St Prochorus was preparing to very last his range by boat, they began to comb for his staff, but they were not efficient to find it wherever. The saint afterward remembered that he had beyond his staff on the other features of the allow, someplace he had gone straddling on the dreamlike viaduct. He afterward revealed what had occurred, and sent servants straddling on a boat to the other layer. They came back and reported that in the forest they had seen an icon of the Blood relation of God perched in the twigs of a tree, adjoining to his bishop's staff.

The saint quickly crossed manager with all his retinue to the harmonizing layer, and he recognized the icon that had appeared to him. Then following highly-flavored prayer early the icon, they cleared the forest at that place, and put down the foundations of a church. Seeing that the human resources of Yaroslavl cerebral of this, they came out to the indicated envisage. By twelve noon the church was ahead of built, and in the dusk the saint consecrated it in appoint of the Entrance featuring in the Temple of the Ceiling Holy Theotokos, and having installed the icon existing he group a Banquet on the day of its consequence. St Prochorus gone built the Tolga monastery current this church. St Prochorus died on September 7, 1328.

The Tolga Famous person of the Ceiling Holy Theotokos is also commemorated on Dignified 8.

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