Icon of the Mother of God of All Who Sorrow. Shrine of merchants Kurakins. Historical information and legends

icon of the Virgin"JOY TO ALL SORRY"

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Icon description:
The icon of the Mother of God "Joy of All Who Sorrow" was first glorified by the icon of the Mother of God in 1688, during the reign of Tsars John and Peter Alekseevich. The sister of Patriarch Joachim, Euphemia, who had suffered for a long time from an incurable disease, one morning during a prayer she heard a voice urging her to go and pray before the icon. Holy Mother of God"Joy of All Who Sorrow" in the Church of the Transfiguration of the Lord on Ordynka and order a prayer service with blessing of water. Euphemia fulfilled what was said, and after performing a water-blessing prayer in front of the icon, she received healing. Since then, many sick and grieving, praying to the Mother of God through Her miraculous image, began to receive healing and deliverance from troubles.

In 1711, when the royal residence was supposed to be moved from Moscow to St. Petersburg, the sister of Emperor Peter I, Tsarevna Natalya Alekseevna, filled with special reverence for the miraculous icon " Joy to all who mourn”, made a list (copy) of it and transported it, among other shrines, to St. Petersburg. According to other sources, a copy remained in Moscow, and the princess took the true image with her. On the site of the Church of the Transfiguration of the Lord in the 18th century, a temple was built in honor of the icon of the Mother of God "Joy of All Who Sorrow", where to this day the miraculous icon of the Virgin Mary is located.

There are two iconographic types of the image of the Theotokos "Joy of All Who Sorrow": on one, the Mother of God is depicted with the Eternal Infant in her arms, on the other - without Him. Sometimes the image of the Virgin is called " Joy to all who mourn».

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Before the icon of the Most Holy Theotokos “Joy of All Who Sorrow,” all the offended, oppressed, suffering, in despair, sorrow, in search of consolation and protection, with incurable diseases, for the patronage of orphans and the poor, suffering from seizures, relaxation of the hands, sore throat, tuberculosis, pray.

Prayers to the Most Holy Theotokos before her icon "Joy of All Who Sorrow"

PRAYER 1st
The hope of the unreliable, the strength of the helpless, the shelter of the overwhelmed, the cover of the afflicted, the intercession of the offended, bread-and-butter, delighting the hungry, the nectar of the heavenly rest of the thirsty, the Mother of the Blessed God, the Blessed and Immaculate Virgin! I resort to You alone, to Your cover I whole-heartedly bow my knee, Lady. Do not despise weeping and tears, weeping joy! If my unworthiness and the guilt of my sins horrifies me, but this whole-bearing image assures me, on it is Your grace and strength, like an inexhaustible sea, I see: blind sighted, galloping lame, wandering like under the shade of Your charity, the mother of the reposed and all the petition of the abounding ; looking at these pardons, I resorted, blind to the eyes of the soul and lame to the feelings of the soul. Oh, Light Necessary! Enlighten and correct me, weigh all my sorrows, weigh all troubles, do not despise my prayer, O Beneficent! Do not disdain me a sinner, do not despise me filthy; we know, as if you can do everything, you will, oh my good hope, my hope is from my mother’s breast. I am devoted to You from the womb of my Mother, I am left to You, do not leave me, do not depart from me, now and forever and forever and ever. Amen.

PRAYER 2nd
Preblagaya my queen, my hope, Mother of God, friend of the orphans, and strange intercessor, grieving joy, offended patroness! See my trouble, see my sorrow; help me like a weak one, feed me like a strange one. I’ll offend my weight, resolve it, as if you will; as if there is no imam of other help, unless you, no other intercessor, no good comforter, only you, O Bogomati, as if you save me and cover me forever and ever. Amen.

PRAYER 3rd
Oh, Most Holy Lady Theotokos, Highest Cherubim and Most Honest Seraphim, God-chosen Maiden, Joy to all who mourn!

Grant consolation to us, who are in sorrow, unless Imams have other refuge and help for You. You are the only joy of our intercessor, and like the Mother of God and the Mother of Mercy, standing at the Throne of the Most Holy Trinity, you can help us, no one who flows to You is put to shame.

Hear us, now on the day of sorrow before Your icon, falling down and praying to You with tears, banish from us the sorrows and sorrows that are upon us in this temporary life, but the creation of Your all-powerful intercession is not deprived of eternal, endless joy in the Kingdom of Your Son and Our God, to Him befits all glory, honor and worship, with His Father without beginning, and with His Most Holy and Good and Life-giving Spirit, now and ever and forever and ever. Amen.

PRAYER 4th
Oh, Most Holy Lady Theotokos, Blessed Mother of Christ God our Savior, Joy to all those who grieve, visiting the sick, the weak cover and intercessor, widows and orphans, the patroness, sad mothers, the all-reliable comforter, weak fortress babies, and all the helpless are always ready help and a true refuge! You, O All-Merciful One, have been given grace from the Almighty to intercede and deliver from sorrow and illness, for you yourself have endured fierce sorrow and illness, looking at the free suffering of Your beloved Son and Him crucified on the cross, seeing, always the weapon predicted by Simeon, the heart Yours will pass; the same, O Mati, loving the voice of our prayer, comfort us in the sorrow of those who are, as a faithful intercessor of joy, standing at the Throne of the Most Holy Trinity, at the right hand of Your Son, Christ our God, you can, if you rise, ask all that is useful to us; for this reason, with heartfelt faith and love from the bottom of our hearts, we fall to You, like the Queen and Lady, and we dare to cry out to You in a Psalm way: hear, daughters, and see, and incline Your ear, hear our prayer, and deliver us from present troubles and sorrows; You fulfill the petitions of all the faithful, as if grieving joy, and give peace and comfort to their souls, see our misfortune and sorrow, show us Your mercy, send comfort to our wounded sorrow in our hearts, show and surprise us sinners with the wealth of Your mercy, give us tears of repentance to cleanse our sins and satisfy the wrath of God, but with a pure heart, a good conscience and unquestioning hope, we resort to Your intercession and intercession. Accept, our All-Merciful Lady Theotokos, our fervent prayer, which is offered to You, and do not reject us unworthy of Your mercy, but give us deliverance from sorrow and illness, protect us from all slander of the enemy and human slander, be our unrelenting helper all the days of life ours, as if under Your maternal protection we will always remain intact and preserved by Your intercession and prayers to Your Son and God our Savior, He deserves all glory, honor and worship, with His Beginning Father and the Holy Spirit, now and ever and forever and ever. Amen.

TROPAR, VOICE 4
Now diligently to the Theotokos, sinners and humility, and we fall down in repentance, calling from the depths of our souls: Lady, help us merciful, we are perishing from many sins, do not turn away Your servants of vain, You and the only hope of the imam.

IN TROPAR, VOICE 2
All grieving joy and offended intercessor, and hungry nurse, strange consolation, overwhelmed shelter, sick visits, weak cover and intercessor, wand of old age, Mother of God Most High Thou art, Most Pure, pander, we pray, be saved by Your servant.

KONDAK, VOICE 6
Not imams of other help, not imams of other hope, unless you, Blessed Virgin, help us, we hope in You and we boast in You, Thy servants, let us not be ashamed.

Magnification
We magnify Thee, Blessed Virgin, God-chosen Lady, and honor Your holy image, and bring healing to all who flow with faith.

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The Mother of God, the image of the Church, is depicted here as a healing Wanderer, having neither a staff, a bag, nor bread, nor silver, nor two clothes (Luke 9: 3) - everything that she had, She distributed, and became perfect (Matt. 19:21). This is the Church wandering in the world, impoverished, but enriching everyone (2 Cor. 6:10).

She is in the capital city, but is not included in Summer garden and on the "boulevard" - Nevsky Prospekt, where "noble gentlemen with ladies" walk. They don’t let her go there, just as they didn’t let Blessed Xenia… Her place is on the working outskirts, and all her property is distributed to the naked, the sick and the poor, whom she found on the roads and under the hedges (Luke 14:23).

All of them, the forgotten and abandoned, the poor and homeless, who do not know how to live, and other losers who are not allowed “on the boulevard”, the Church calls, calls, convinces them to come and fill the house of the Son of God, to come to the marriage and the great supper.

She calls everyone to taste the bread and wine of Wisdom (Prov. 9:1-6) - and distributes the water of life for free (Rev. 22:17). Her outfit is simple - royal and noble wives and widows dressed just as simply when they visited the sick and wounded in shelters and hospitals.

The Church is a poor wanderer in the world -

Like a rock, like an arrow - from aleph to tav,

along brick roads, along paths between grasses,

among his wanderings he weaves a scarlet thread,

dares to feed the creatures of the Lord from the palm of his hand -

what about wings, hooves and many eyes,

that they sing, they cry, and they cry out, shouting,

homeless, homeless, gray-haired and young,

impregnable, like a bush on fire ....

... A lightning strike into a mug with pennies brought as a donation by widows and the poor to the temple - like a shining manifestation of the Living God in the poverty of this world with its luxurious gardens and boulevards, stones and buildings (Mark 13: 1). After all, the Risen Christ, bearing the wounds from the death of the Cross on His body, is also compared in Byzantine hymnographic texts with lightning.

The ancients believed that pearls were mysteriously born from a lightning strike into the open shells, lying at the very depths of the sea waters, the waters of the abyss, and this image was cited by St. Ephraim the Syrian, when he spoke about the mysterious Nativity of the Son of God. Born of the Holy Spirit and the Virgin Mary, He came in order to then descend into hell by the cross and illuminate its dark, hopeless depths with divine lightning. He lit up all its corners, looking for a person - every person, without the sarcasm of Diogenes, but with the greatest compassion for people - lost losers before the Living God.

It does not matter to God that people have become failures, and having missed (and sin is in Greek “miss”, “amartya”) did not hit the target. He became a perfect Man, He hit the target instead of them - so that no one else misses. The new humanity is gathered around Him - a symbol of this was His twelve apostles, symbolizing the twelve tribes of Israel.

... The icon of the Mother of God, hanging on a cord, from a thunderclap fell down from the wall to the people, and twelve coins remained imprinted on it forever. On the head of the Mother of God is a white headscarf. His Church is that pearl for which the Son of God gave everything (Matt. 13:45; Philipp. 2:7)

And He found His Church, and she loved Him, and wanders, poor, after Him, the Poor Wanderer - wherever He goes (Rev. 14:8).

And a penny with the image of the Holy Great Martyr George the Victorious, the one that is the only one! - took in alms Blessed Xenia, a homeless wanderer of Peter's city, is a symbol of the victory of Christ and the freedom of His Bride - the Church.

Here there is no longer a division into those who are allowed into the Summer Garden and those who are driven away - for here in everything and everywhere is Christ the God who destroys all barriers.

She, His Church, looks at the lady and the beggar woman, at the homeless person and the manager, who come to Him in their great hopeless poverty. And she, the Church, distributes Christ - for she has nothing, only Christ Himself, the Son of God.

Freeing the waters
Castles tearing from the rivers,
He collects a round dance,
Furious Khoreg!

But who dares to follow Him,
Through light and blue
Drink from the stream on the way
And raise your head?

He will give water to the deer,
Castles tearing from the rivers -
Merry Wanderer, Living God,
Killed Man.

But - look! - middle of the day
He calls in a round dance!
The moon will not scorch him,
And the sun won't burn.

Only Seraphim with a wave of wings,
that is bright, blue and scarlet,
in confusion remembers how he lived
and how he died.

But - it is not given now to interrupt
Merry way!
... Only He can give Himself,
And more - nothing.

His hand will part the rye,
pierced by nails,
And though the heart trembles,
But - take the bread from your hands!

Freeing the waters
Castles tearing from the rivers,
He calls a round dance
Furious Khoreg!

Olga Dzharman

Icon of the Mother of God
"Joy of All Who Sorrow"

Icon of Princess Natalia Alekseevna

The history of this miraculous image begins in Moscow. In 1688, during the reign of Tsars John and Peter Alekseevich, the sister of Patriarch Joachim Euthymia, who had suffered for a long time from an incurable illness, one morning during a prayer heard a voice calling her to go to pray before the image of the Most Holy Theotokos "Joy of All Who Sorrow" in the Church of the Transfiguration of the Lord on Ordynka and order a prayer service with water blessing. Euphemia fulfilled what was said and received healing. Since then, many suffering from illnesses, people in sorrows, prayerfully turning to the Mother of God, through Her miraculous image began to receive healing and deliverance from troubles.

In 1711, when the royal residence was transferred from Moscow to St. Petersburg, Tsarevna Natalya Alekseevna, who reverently revered the miraculous icon, made a list (copy) of it and transported it, among other relics, to St. Petersburg. According to other sources, a copy remained in Moscow, and the princess took the true image with her. In any case, both icons - both Moscow and St. Petersburg were equally revered as miraculous. The list of the princess was placed in the house church of the Resurrection of Christ at the palace of Natalya Alekseevna behind the Foundry Yard on Shpalernaya Street. Both Moscow and St. Petersburg churches kept early handwritten lists of services and legends about the icon.

Petersburg list

In St. Petersburg, the icon became one of the main shrines; numerous lists were made from it. On the Petersburg image, the Mother of God was depicted in full growth without the Divine Infant. Left hand It is extended to the sick depicted near, and the right one points them to the Savior. The head of the Virgin is covered with a white veil, outerwear dark blue, and the bottom - dark red; green branches are depicted behind the Queen of Heaven paradise trees. The Mother of God is surrounded by people who are thirsty for healing and intercession, and Angels sent to comfort them, pointing to the Ever-Virgin - a source of inexhaustible and all-conquering joy. On the scrolls - texts with prayer names grace-filled help from the Mother of God: “naked robe”, “sick healing”. At the top of the icon is the Savior on the clouds, right hand blessing, and in the left holding holy gospel. One of these lists from the chapel near the Glassworks became famous in 1888.

Tikhvin chapel

Chapel in honor Tikhvin icon The Mother of God was built on the territory of the Imperial Glass Factory in the 18th century. Its construction, according to legend, was associated with a miraculous phenomenon. In the place where the Tikhvin Chapel was placed, there used to be a transfer from the Glass Factory from the left bank of the Neva to the right. One day, boatmen-carriers saw that an icon was floating right at them. As she approached the raft where the boats moored, she stopped. Having taken the icon out of the water, the boatmen saw that the Most Holy Theotokos of Tikhvin was depicted on it. Seeing the special mercy of God in this, the locals built a chapel in honor of the Most Holy Theotokos of Tikhvin near this place, where the icon appeared and was found. Until 1882, it belonged to the parish Church of Sorrow, which was located above the gates of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra; from 1882 to 1898 - to the Borisoglebskaya Kalashnikovskaya Church, and since 1898, after the consecration of the new church built near the chapel, it came under the jurisdiction of the clergy of the newly formed parish of the Sorrowful Church at the Glass Factory.

Chapel at the pillar

The first chapel was wooden, "one square sazhen at the base and two sazhens high." In appearance, it resembled the chapels found in villages on high roads. Once above it hung the image of St. Elijah the Prophet, therefore, earlier the chapel was called Ilyinsky, and on the day of St. Prophet Elijah, a procession to the chapel was made annually and a moleben of St. prophet. In church books there is also the name "chapel at the pillar", or "Nikolskaya chapel", since there was a pillar with the image of St. Nicholas on it at the chapel.

Holy Prophet Elijah. St. Nikolay.
Mosaic above the south entrance. Mosaic above the north entrance.
Artist V. A. Frolov Artist V. A. Frolov

After the flood

During the great flood of 1824, the chapel was washed away and moved by the current to the opposite bank of the Neva to the village of Klochki. The inhabitants of Klochkov left the chapel with them, and the icon of the Mother of God was returned to the village of the Glass Factory. A new chapel for her was built by one of the Tulyakov brothers (Dmitry), who later supported her and provided her with other images. When this chapel completely dilapidated, the inhabitants of the village of the Glass Factory built a new Tikhvin chapel (1870) with their donations and transferred to it all the icons that were in the former chapel, among which was already the image of the Mother of God "Joy of All Who Sorrow."

Shrine of merchants Kurakins

This small icon of the Mother of God was donated to the chapel by the Ladoga merchant Semyon Ivanovich Matveev in gratitude for the miraculous salvation from drowning, as stated in his spiritual testament. Once, in bad weather, the merchant capsized in the boat along with the rowers in the middle of the Neva. All the rowers died, and he, clinging to the board, fought the waves. When his strength completely betrayed him, he prayed to the Mother of God for intercession. A side wind blew and the board with the drowning man was nailed to the place where the Tikhvin chapel stood. Matveev thanked the Lady of Heaven for his salvation and donated the icon of the Mother of God "Joy of All Who Sorrow" to the chapel. This image, as a particularly revered family shrine, was received by him from his mother, who came from the Kurakin family of merchants. It is said that one of the merchants Kurakins accepted this icon when it was nailed to the bank of the Neva by a wave.

Miracle with pennies

On August 5 (July 23 according to the old style), 1888, a terrible thunderstorm broke out over St. Petersburg. Lightning struck the roof of the Tikhvin Chapel, next to the dome. During the fire that began after this, the chapel burned down, but the icon “Joy of All Who Sorrow” located in it miraculously survived and was miraculously renewed by heavenly fire: the face of the Mother of God, darkened by time and soot, brightened. The cord on which the icon hung in the corner of the chapel was burnt, and the icon itself fell on coins scattered from the donation box, and 12 small copper coins (groszyki) stuck to the icon (later 1 coin fell off). The coins were kept on the surface of the icon for no apparent reason - evidence of a divine sign, a miracle of God.

Petersburg miraculous

The very next day, many pilgrims began to flock to the chapel, news began to spread of miraculous healings from the icon (one of the first miracles was the healing of a relaxed peasant who had not left his bed for several years). With the blessing of Metropolitan Isidore (Nikolsky), the service of prayer services began before the icon. There were so many people that prayers were performed from morning to evening. The news of the glorification of the holy icon spread throughout the cities and towns of Russia. Requests for prayer before the newly-appeared image flowed from all its ends, including from the heterodox. Hundreds of pilgrims began to arrive in St. Petersburg to pray before the miraculous image of the Mother of God, which received the name "Joy of All Who Sorrow" with pennies.
The small chapel could not accommodate everyone, people prayed under open sky, kneeling right on the ground, patiently waiting for hours in line to enter inside, defend a prayer service, and venerate the image. In order to slightly increase the area of ​​the chapel, a teak canopy was built.

The construction of a new chapel by the merchant Orlov

With the onset of autumn, the influx of pilgrims did not decrease. The canopy became a poor protection against rain and wind, so the merchant Orlov, who rented a piece of land adjacent to the chapel, built a new, more spacious chapel. It was built in the form of a tent over a small old chapel. In front of the old chapel, in the new one, an iconostasis was placed, similar to church iconostases, only the royal gates in it replaced the iron lattice double doors through which one could enter the inside of the old chapel. The glorified icon of the Mother of God "Joy of All Who Sorrow" was placed in the iconostasis in the place of the temple icon. Dozens of lamps flickered day and night in front of the holy icon, and the huge candlestick was often not enough to hold all the candles lit by the pilgrims.

First miracles. Healing of Nikolai Grachev

History has preserved many amazing testimonies of the miraculous help flowing from the icon. The first healing, which received all-Russian fame, occurred on December 6, 1890, when 14-year-old orphan Nikolai Grachev, who had suffered from severe seizures since childhood, caused him unbearable suffering, was cured of the icon. The boy almost lost his arms and legs. Once, after a particularly strong seizure, the Mother of God appeared to the boy who fell into oblivion with St. Nicholas and ordered him to go to the “chapel where the coins fell”, where he would be healed. The boy persuaded his sister to take him to the chapel, where he had a seizure again. There were many people in the chapel. When the prayer service began, everyone prayed for the healing of the suffering person, and while singing the kontakion, they applied it to the holy icon. After that, before the eyes of the numb people, the boy got up and independently approached the cross and venerated the icon. A real miracle happened in front of everyone's eyes! The boy subsequently studied at the drawing school of the Imperial Society for the Encouragement of Arts. In the house where the miraculous appearance of the Most Holy Theotokos to Nikolai Grachev took place, a church was later built and with it a shelter for mentally retarded children. Nikolai's sister, Ekaterina Gracheva, worked as a caretaker and educator in this shelter.

Healing of Vera Belonogina

On February 7, 1891, the 26-year-old wife of a clerk from the Thornton factory, Vera Belonogina, was healed, suffering from an incurable sore throat, as a result of which she lost her voice. The disease was fatal. And suddenly she saw in a dream the Most Holy Theotokos, who commanded her to pray fervently and serve a prayer service before the holy icon in Petersburg. After the prayer service, the woman received instant and complete healing from her illness.

"The steam engine goes to the Sorrowful..."

Many more sick and suffering, who ran with prayer to the Most Pure Lady, received healing before Her holy image. The icon began to be called "Joy of All Who Sorrow" with pennies. The chapel in the settlement of the Glass Factory became a place of pilgrimage not only for the inhabitants of St. Petersburg, but also for numerous pilgrims from all over Russia. Its popularity is evidenced by the fact that not only the location of the chapel appeared on the plans of the city, but also the name - the Sorrowful Mother of God. It is this place that is mentioned in the lines of A. A. Akhmatova “The steamer goes to the Sorrowful ...” - this is how the pilgrims usually got here.

New stone chapel

In 1906-1909, for the Miraculous Image, designed by the architect A.I. von Gauguin, a large stone chapel was built in the “Russian style”, which included a burnt historical chapel like a case. Architect A.I. von Gauguin took the chapel of the famous Moscow Church of the Nativity in Putinki in the middle of the 17th century. It was the largest chapel in Russia: it could accommodate up to 800 people.

Construction of the temple in the name of the icon "Joy of All Who Sorrow with pennies"

In 1893 the Emperor Alexander III prayed in the chapel with his wife and children and donated money and land plot for the construction of a stone temple. The construction of the Sorrowful Church (the authors of the project A. I. von Gauguin and A. V. Ivanov) next to the chapel began in 1894 and was completed in 1898. The main chapel in honor of the icon of the Mother of God "Joy of All Who Sorrow" was consecrated on August 2, 1898 by the bishop Yamburgsky Veniamin.

The Church of Sorrow operated until 1932, then it was closed and dismantled in 1933. The chapel in 1932-1938 acted as a parish renovation church, and after closing in November 1938, its building was transferred to the Volodarsk district headquarters of the MPVO. This circumstance saved the chapel from demolition. AT Soviet time housed in the chapel manufacturing facility rubber products "Gummilat". During the “seizure of church valuables,” the precious riza was removed from the miraculous icon.

The parishioners hid the miraculous icon in their homes, and in the spring of 1946 they transferred it to the Church of the Holy Life-Giving Trinity (“Kulich and Easter”), which was returned to believers after the war. In this temple on Obukhov Defense Avenue in St. Petersburg, it is still located.

Modern history

In the first half of the 1990s, the territory former church with the surviving (without tent completions) chapel was transferred to the St. Petersburg diocese.

Since 1991, the chapel has been operating as a temple in honor of the Joy of All Who Sorrow icon and is a courtyard of the Holy Trinity Zelenetsky Monastery. Through the efforts of the abbot and the brethren of the monastery, the temple was restored.

The internal and external splendor of the temple was revived: tents were restored, crosses with crystals were installed, as in pre-revolutionary years, restored interior decoration. With the blessing of the rector of the temple, hegumen Pachomius, an exact copy of the miraculous image of the Most Holy Theotokos "Joy of All Who Sorrow" with pennies was made. The kiot has been recreated, which exactly repeats the original. The kiot was consecrated on January 30, 1995 by Metropolitan Vladimir of St. Petersburg.

In 1998, in commemoration of the 110th anniversary of the miraculous glorification of the icon, by decree of His Holiness Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow and All Rus', the image was named “The St. Petersburg Icon of the Mother of God “Joy of All Who Sorrow” with pennies.”

Prayers before the Icon of the Mother of God "Joy of All Who Sorrow"

Stikhira, voice 2

All the grieving Joy and the offended Intercessor, and the hungry Nurse, the strange Consolation, the overwhelmed Shelter, the sick Visitation, the weak Veil and Intercessor, the Wand of old age, the Mother of the Most High God, Thou art the Most Pure, pand, pray, be saved by Your servant.

Kontakion, tone 6

Not imams of other help, not imams of other hopes, except for You, the Lady. Help us, we hope in You and boast in You, for we are Your servants, let us not be ashamed.

magnificence

We magnify Thee, Blessed Virgin, God-chosen Maiden, and honor Your holy image. With it, bring healing to all who flow with faith.

Prayer one

Oh, Most Holy Lady Theotokos, Blessed Mother of Christ God our Savior, Joy to all those who grieve, visiting the sick, the weak cover and intercessor, widows and orphans, the patroness, sad mothers, the all-reliable comforter, babies weak fortress, and all the helpless are always ready help and true refuge! You, O All-Merciful, have been given grace from the Almighty to intercede and deliver from sorrow and illness, for you yourself have endured fierce sorrow and illness, looking at the free suffering of Your beloved Son and That on the cross you are crucified seeing, when the weapon of Simeon is your predicted heart pass. The same, O Mother, loving child, hearken to the voice of our prayer, comfort us in the sorrows of those who are, as if faithful to the joy of the Intercessor: coming to the throne of the Most Holy Trinity, at the right hand of Your Son, Christ our God, you can, if you rise, ask all that is useful to us. For this sake, with heartfelt faith and love from the bottom of our hearts, we fall down to You as the Queen and Lady and cry out to You in a Psalm way: Hear, Dshi, and see, and incline Your ear, hear our prayer, and deliver us from present troubles and sorrows; For you fulfill the petitions of all the faithful, as if grieving joy, and grant peace and comfort to their souls. Behold, see our misfortune and sorrow: show us Your mercy, send consolation to our wounded sorrow in our hearts, show and surprise us sinners with the wealth of Your mercy, give us tears of repentance to cleanse our sins and satisfy the wrath of God, but with a pure heart, a good conscience and with undoubted hope, we resort to Your intercession and intercession: accept, our all-merciful Lady Theotokos, our fervent prayer offered to You, and do not reject us, unworthy, from Your mercy, but give us deliverance from sorrow and illness, protect us from all slander of the enemy and slander human, be a relentless helper to us all the days of our life, as if under Your maternal protection we will always remain goals and be preserved by Your intercession and prayers to Your Son and God our Savior, and all glory, honor and worship are due to Him, with His Father without beginning and Holy Spirit, now and forever and forever and ever. Amen.

Prayer two

Oh, Most Holy and Blessed Virgin, Lady Mother of God! Look with Your merciful eye on us, standing before Your holy icon and praying to You with tenderness: raise us up from the depths of sin, enlighten our mind, darkened by passions, and heal the ulcers of our souls and bodies. Not imams of other help, not imams of other hope, except for You, the Lady. You weigh all our infirmities and sins, we resort to You and cry out: do not leave us with Your heavenly help, but appear before us and with Your inexpressible mercy and bounty, save and have mercy on us who are perishing. Grant us the correction of our sinful lives and deliver us from sorrows, troubles and illnesses, from sudden death, hell and eternal torment. You are more, Queen and Mistress, an ambulance and Intercessor to all who flow to You and a strong Refuge of penitent sinners. Grant us, Blessing and All-Immaculate Virgin, the Christian end of our life is peaceful and shameless, and vouchsafe us with Your intercession to settle in the abodes of heaven, where the unceasing voice of the celebrating with joy glorifies Holy Trinity, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and forever and forever and ever. Amen.

Queen of heaven and earth, Consolation to those who grieve, Listen to the prayer of sinners: In You is hope and salvation.

We are mired in the evil of passions, Wandering in the darkness of vice, But ... our Motherland ... Oh, tilt the all-seeing eye to it.

Holy Rus' - your bright house Almost dies, To you, Intercessor, we call: No one else knows about us.

Oh, do not leave Your children, Grieving Hope, Do not turn Your eyes away From our sorrow and suffering.

One of the poems transcribed by the Royal Martyrs in Tobolsk

Undoubtedly, the very name of this image, “Joy of All Who Sorrow,” was the reason for its widest distribution on Russian soil. In addition to the first Moscow image, there were at least two and a half dozen miraculous and locally venerated copies from this icon: in the Mother See itself and in its environs, on the banks of the Neva and in Abkhazia, in Siberian Tobolsk and in Kyiv, in Vologda and in Nizhny Novgorod, in other cities, villages and monasteries. The soul of a Russian person is especially close and understandable to the meaning hidden in the name of the icon - hope for the Most Pure One, who invariably rushes to console, alleviate human sorrow and suffering, to give “naked clothes, healing to the sick” ...

The Mother of God is written on this icon in full growth, usually with a scepter in her right hand and with the Child on a shuitz, but sometimes without Him, with outstretched arms, as on the famous “Joy of All Who Sorrow” (with pennies), surrounded by distressed Christians falling to Her and Angels sent to assuage their sorrows, pointing to the Ever-Virgin - a source of inexhaustible and all-conquering joy. The attire of the Most Pure on the lists varies: She appears either in glory, with a crown on her head and in the robes of a queen, or in a cloak and a white dress that is usual for Her earthly days.

As the old church chronicle tells, in the summer of 7196 from the creation of the world (1648 from the Nativity of Christ), tormented by a huge unhealed ulcer in the side, the widow Evfimiya Akinfieva, the sister of Patriarch Joachim, desperate to receive healing from the doctors, appealed to the Most Pure and suddenly heard a voice: “Evfimiya Why, in your grief, do you not resort to the common Healer of all? - "Where can you find such a Healer?" the patient asked humbly. And then the voice commanded to turn to the priest of the “Temple of the Divine Transfiguration of the Lord God and Savior Jesus Christ and the Reverend Father Varlaam Khutynsky, the Novgorod miracle worker”, on Bolshaya Ordynka in Moscow, so that he would take there “on the left side in the meal, where usually become women, ”the image of the Most Pure and served a prayer service before him with the blessing of water. Having immediately done all this, Euphemia received healing. So the first miracle happened from the “icon of our Most Holy Lady Theotokos and Ever-Virgin Mary, which is called Joy to all who mourn”, and the temple itself received and still retains the name of Sorrowful (although its main throne was consecrated in the name of the Transfiguration). The temple on Bolshaya Ordynka is also famous for the fact that the Vespers by S.V. Rachmaninov (on the closest to the day of his death, March 28, Saturday) and the Liturgy by P.I. Tchaikovsky (the day of his death fell on 25 October, according to the old style, is the miraculous day following the celebration). Every Saturday, a prayer service is performed here at the miraculous, in last years which revealed a new fertile gift of healing those suffering from alcoholism and drug addiction. Each century has its own sorrows - only the joy of healing granted by the Intercessor does not pass.

Church on Bolshaya Ordynka

In addition to the church on Bolshaya Ordynka, four more parish churches in the name of the Joy of All Who Sorrow icon now operate in the capital (on the 3rd Meshchanskaya at the Staro-Ekaterininsky hospital, at the Kalitnikovsky cemetery (with a locally venerated list), on Zatsep (better known for the chapel as the temple of Frol and Laurus) and at the psychiatric hospital at Kanatchik's Dacha); the throne of the hospital church of the Nikolo-Ugreshsky monastery has the same dedication. Formerly in Moscow there were also Skorbyashchensky convent on Novoslobodskaya Street and almost a dozen Churches of Sorrow, including those at several hospitals, shelters and the Matrosskaya Tishina prison.

Unlike Muscovites, the Orthodox cities on the Neva were sure that the miraculous icon was transported to the new capital in 1711 by the sister of Peter I, Tsarevna Natalia Alekseevna, and eventually ended up in the Sorrowful Church on Shpalernaya Street. It was from this image that the miracle of the smallpox epidemic that raged during the time of Catherine II was attributed to a miracle.

By the beginning of the 20th century, church historians found it difficult to answer which of the icons - on Bolshaya Ordynka in Moscow or on Shpalernaya in St. Petersburg - was the first image. But judging by the fact that the St. Petersburg icon is painted on a cypress board on a primed canvas, it is younger than the Moscow one.

However, over time, St. Petersburg also acquired its own icon of "Joy of All Who Sorrow" in its special version - the so-called "Virgin with pennies." In ancient times, the merchants Kurakins, who lived in the suburban village of Klochki (now this is the area of ​​​​the Glass Factory, which has long been part of the boundaries of St. Petersburg), found the image of the Virgin nailed to the shore by the waves of the Neva; generations later, their heirs donated the family shrine to the chapel at the Glassworks.

On July 23, 1888, a terrible thunderstorm broke out over the banks of the Neva. Burnt out by a lightning strike internal walls chapels along with all the icons and scattered coins from the alms mug. Only one icon survived, and later records fell off the face of the Most Pure One, and twelve copper coins from the mug were hammered into the icon board with superhuman strength. Since then, the new miraculous has received the popular name "Our Lady (with pennies)". The next day, streams of pilgrims flowed to the chapel, miraculous healings began and did not stop. In 1898, a new temple was consecrated here, and the miraculous remained in the chapel and was transferred to the temple only during divine services. It is this place that is mentioned in the lines of A. A. Akhmatova “The steamboat goes to the Sorrowful ...” - this is how the pilgrims usually got here. In Soviet times, the temple was destroyed, the chapel by the Providence of God has survived to this day, the miraculous image itself (with pennies) is located nearby, in the Trinity Church "Kulich and Easter".

On the St. Petersburg recension, the Most Pure is written with outstretched arms, with her face bowed to the left, her lower clothes are crimson, her upper ones are dark blue, her head is clothed in a white veil, without a royal crown. Above in the clouds - the blessing Savior, around - Angels, suffering, green branches and indispensable twelve coins.

The celebration of the icon "Joy of All Who Sorrow" takes place on October 24 according to the old style (some of the lists from it have their own special days of celebration). And within the current borders of Russia, and within its historical boundaries, and throughout the world, wherever the foot of a Russian person has set foot, the words of hymns in honor of this holy icon sounded, sound and will sound until the end of this world.

Stichira, tone 2, sung at a prayer service instead of a troparion

All the grieving Joy and the offended Intercessor, and the hungry Nurse, the strange Consolation, the overwhelmed Shelter, the sick Visitation, the weak Veil and Intercessor, the Wand of old age, the Mother of the Most High God, Thou art the Most Pure, pand, pray, be saved by Your servant.

Prayer

O Most Holy and Blessed Virgin, Lady Mother of God! Look with Your merciful eye on us, standing before Your holy icon and praying to You with tenderness: raise us up from the depths of sin, enlighten our mind, darkened by passions, and heal the ulcers of our souls and bodies. Not imams of other help, not imams of other hope, except for You, the Lady. You weigh all our infirmities and sins, we resort to You and cry out: do not leave us with Your heavenly help, but appear before us and with Your inexpressible mercy and bounty, save and have mercy on us who are perishing. Grant us the correction of our sinful lives and deliver us from sorrows, troubles and illnesses, from sudden death, hell and eternal torment. You are more, Queen and Mistress, an ambulance and Intercessor to all who flow to You and a strong Refuge of penitent sinners. Grant us, Blessing and Immaculate Virgin, the Christian end of our life is peaceful and shameless, and vouchsafe us with Your intercession to settle in the abodes of heaven, where the unceasing voice of those celebrating with joy glorifies the Most Holy Trinity, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and ever and forever and ever. Amen.

Nadezhda Dmitrieva

From the book “Rejoices in You!”

The Joy of All Who Sorrow icon is one of the most popular and revered icons of the Mother of God. The correct prayers offered to her help to get rid of many troubles and illnesses.

What does the icon "Joy of All Who Sorrow" look like?

Among believers, the icon of "Joy of All Who Sorrow" is considered miraculous. According to legend, thanks to the prayer at the image of the Mother of God, the sister of the Moscow Patriarch received healing from a serious illness. Since then, many sick and grieving, turning to the Mother of God, received healing from troubles, and the suffering got rid of adversity.

Before the icon of the Most Holy Theotokos, the offended and oppressed, who are in despair and sorrow, pray, in search of consolation and protection, in case of incurable diseases, they ask for the protection of an orphan.

There is already consolation in the title. We turn to the Mother of God at a time when we despaired of finding a way out of this situation without losing hope for help. In the Mother of God, we see a protector who will always come to the rescue and direct on the true path, washing away hardships from the soul and freeing her from the shackles of sorrow, healing the body and spirit through prayer to the Lord.

What to pray in front of the icon

Many people go through hardships, hardships, illnesses and sorrows throughout their lives. When it is not possible to choose the time to visit the church, and despair overwhelms, remember that they pray and honor not a specific icon, but the one who is depicted on it.

Choose the right time to pray. It can be spoken in your own words with sincere faith and pure thoughts, and then it will surely be heard.

Asking the icon of "Joy of All Who Sorrow" for help and protection, you should remember your spiritual thoughts. You must be honest with yourself, not keep evil in your heart and not ask for revenge. A sincere request and repentance increase the chances of getting rid of hardships and worries as soon as possible.

Before turning to the Virgin, light a candle and put on clean, loose clothes. Ask the Lord for forgiveness and read a prayer "Our Father". For convenience, write down the text of the appeal to the Mother of God by hand on a piece of paper. Decide on a request and pray using the following words:

Most Holy Lady Theotokos, my Queen, save me and shelter me from adversity, save me from illness and send down the joy of being, do not leave me an orphan, give me consolation and return the joy of life.

There are many icons to which you can direct your prayers. You can turn to them for help in fulfilling your desire, ask for help in choosing a life partner. There are no hopeless situations. Find the strength in yourself to strive for the light, and luck will not leave you. Love yourself and your loved ones and do not forget to press the buttons and

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