Penza, Penza Province, Russia, December 5, 2023
Photo: пензенская-епархия.рф
A miraculous, myrrh-streaming icon of the holy Tsar-Martyr Nicholas II was carried in procession throughout the city of Penza, 400 mile southeast of Moscow, on Sunday, December 3.
The icon was delivered to the Holy Theophany Church by His Eminence Metropolitan Seraphim of Penza, who served a festive moleben and then led the procession to the Christ the Savior Cathedral, reports the Penza Diocese.
Addressing the participants in the cathedral, Met. Seraphim said: “Now each of you will have the chance to pray before the icon of Tsar Nicholas the Passion-bearer, to venerate this image and ask him not to leave us, our city, and our God-protected country without his intercession.”
Photo: пензенская-епархия.рф
The procession is timed to coincide with the display of the exhibition, “The Royal Family: Love and Mercy,” organized by Moscow’s Sretensky Monastery. The Exhibition on charitable work of Royal Family on display near Moscow’s Sretensky MonasteryThe exhibition, which was prepared by the Sretensky brethren, mainly features and photos and material dedicated to the service of the Empress Alexandra and the Grand Duchesses as sisters of mercy in the infirmaries and hospitals during WWI.
“>same exhibition was earlier set up in Moscow just outside the monastery.
The icon of Tsar Nicholas was painted in 1996 by the iconographer Pavel Tikhomirov. The paper lithograph, presented to the Moscow surgeon Oleg Ivanovich Belchenko, began streaming myrrh on November 7, 1998, and the phenomenon continues to this day. The icon has visited many cities of Russia and abroad when not at the Church of the Holy Nine Martyrs of Cyzicus in Moscow.
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