London, November 21, 2024
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Over the past three weeks, the wonderworking Hawaiian Iveron Icon traveled throughout Western Europe, with its guardian Fr. Nektary Yangson.
The icon began its first-ever visit to Western Europe with a festive procession of hierarchs, clergy, and Orthodox faithful in Zurich on 
Zurich: Wonderworking Hawaiian Iveron Icon greeted with festive processionThe icon will travel throughout Western Europe until November 20.
“>November 1. It was then taken to other cities throughout Switzerland, France, Italy, and Belgium, before arriving in England on November 11.
The icon tour was arranged by the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russian Diocese of Great Britain and Western Europe, but it has 
Antiochian bishop and faithful greet wonderworking Hawaiian icon in EnglandThe wonderworking Hawaiian Iveron Icon of the Mother of God, which is currently visiting parishes throughout Western Europe, was festively greeted by the local Antiochian hierarch and faithful in Lincoln, England on Wednesday.
“>drawn clergy and faithful 
Hundreds of Serbian faithful gather to venerate miraculous Hawaiian Icon in BirminghamDespite being a weekday service, the midday gathering drew an extraordinary crowd eager to pray before the revered icon, which was brought to the Serbian parish by agreement of ROCOR Bishop Irenei of London and Western Europe and Serbian Orthodox Bishop Dositej of Great Britain.”>from various Orthodox jurisdictions.
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Starting Saturday, November 16, the icon visited ROCOR and Serbian parishes in the Greater London area for four days. On Tuesday, November 19, the final service before the wonderworking icon in London was held at the ROCOR Cathedral of the Nativity of the Mother of God and the Royal Martyrs, reports the ROCOR Diocese of Great Britain and Western Europe.
His Grace Bishop Irenei and the cathedral clergy were joined by clergy from the Antiochian, Bulgarian, Serbian, and other dioceses, for an evening moleben and akathist.
“The occasion was especially poignant, as the faithful of Great Britain—to whom this icon has come to hold a special place of reverence—prepared to bid it farewell. Many tears of thanksgiving were shed before the sacred image, as the clergy and faithfully expressed their love for the Mother of God and her Son,” the diocese writes.
The visit to the ROCOR diocese concluded the next day with a moleben and akathist in in Stradbally, Ireland.
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