Several thousand believers took part in the procession of the cross in Kazan in honor of the Kazan icon of the Mother of God. Despite the rain, the participants carried the list of the miraculous icon from the Annunciation Cathedral of the Kazan Kremlin to the Bogoroditsky Monastery in Kazan, where the solemn liturgy took place. The Feast of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God on November 4 is associated with the liberation of Moscow from the Polish invaders in 1612. So the people's militia, under the leadership of Kuzma Minin and Dmitry Pozharsky, set out to liberate the capital, and the Kazan icon became one of the central militias. More IZ RU news in max.