Posted on 10/15/2019 6:07:04 PM PDT by marshmallow
A miraculous 17th-century icon of Christ has finally returned home after being lost during communist times.
The revered “Savior of Moskvoretesky” (Pantocrator) Icon was believed lost after 1927, but returned to the Holy Protection Cathedral on Red Square, commonly known as St. Basil’s, yesterday, reports TASS.
Lost more than 90 years ago, the miraculous icon was discovered in an antique market and bought by collector Stanislav Nikolaev last year, and was restored over the summer. “The icon has found its place, I hope for many years, and perhaps, forever. The icon came to me, as I said, quite by accident, and we … decided and received the blessing of the Patriarch, and thus the icon has come here, to its place,” said Nikolaev.
The icon was originally placed in a niche in the Moskvoretsky Gate, which no longer exists, next to Protection/St. Basil’s Cathedral. A chapel was later built for the icon at Moskvoretsky Bridge behind Red Square. The chapel was closed in 1920 and dismantled in 1966.
“A wonderworking icon shouldn’t be in a private collection… A wonderworking icon shouldn’t work miracles for one person or one family. It should work miracles for all who suffer,” added the donor.
St. Basil’s is both an active parish and an active state-run museum.
“I think [the icon] is a unique and historical monument because it is closely connected with the history of Moscow, the history of our state. This icon of the ‘Lord Pantocrator,’ a gift of the famous collector Stanislav Nikolaev and Igor Levitin (assistant to the President of Russia),” said museum director Alexei Levykin at the transfer ceremony on Monday.
Archbishop Ambrose of Verey, Patriarchal Vicar and abbot of Sretensky Monastery, conveyed thanks to Nikolaev and Levitin on behalf of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill.
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A beautiful and significant icon. Thanks for posting.
Also, let’s give credit where credit is due, to President Putin, who’s done far more to return Russia to being a Christian nation than the anti-American Islamocommunist usurper Obola and his accomplices ever did here.
Very cool
That must be the very colorful cathedral in Moscow?
Ping!
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