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Pilgrimage to the Holy Land – 2010The Miracle-Working, Myrrh-streaming icon of the Most Holy Mother of God “The Softening of Evil Hearts” visited Holy Trinity and Saint Nicholas Churches (Diocese of Montreal and Canada, ROCOR) in Vancouver, B.C. on September 10-th, 11-th and 12-th, 2013.
Please have a look below at pictures and video from Moleben with the Akathist Hymn to the Most Holy Mother of God at Holy Trinity Church 710 Campbell Ave. Vancouver, B.C. on Sep 12, 2013. Two local deans served:
Archpriest Serge Overt – The Dean of British Columbia, and the rector of the Holy Trinity Church, Vancouver (ROCOR)
Archpriest Michael Fourik – The Dean of British Columbia and Yukon, and the rector of the Holy Resurrection Russian Orthodox Sobor, Vancouver (OCA)
Icon history: Myrrh-streaming icon is not old, it is modern, created in Sofrino. Icon started myrrh-streaming on May 3, 1998 in the Moscow apartment of her owner Margaret Vorobieva. In 1999, before the explosions of houses in Moscow, the face of the Virgin on the icon has changed, there were dark under-eye circles, and there was a smell of incense in the apartment.
On August 12, 2000, the day of the catastrophe of the submarine “Kursk”, tiny bleeding wounds appeared on the icon. Since then myrrh-streaming and bleeding was accompanied by the incessant and fragrance. For storage of this shrine precious ark was made, and in a village Bachurina near Moscow church was built.
Myrrh-Streaming Icon of the Mother of God “Softener of Evil Hearts” reacts to everything that happens in the world. She is myrrh-streaming so abundantly that the chrism is gathered by liters. In anticipation of the tragic events the icon bleeds. Conducted the examination showed that the blood is of a human, the first group …
Icon differently encounters of people coming to pay homage: heals someone, someone helps, while others cannot even approach her.
Worshipers of many Orthodox churches of Vancouver with reverence attended church services during the Icon visit to Vancouver, BC.
