Happy Feast of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God, brothers and sisters! During the Troubles, Russian land was occupied by the damned Poles. At the call of St. Hermogenes, the Patriarch of Moscow, the Russian people rose in defense of the faith and the Church. A miraculous image of the Holy Mary was sent from Kazan to the militia led by Prince Dimitri Pozharsky. Before the liberation attack on Moscow, Christ's army fasted for three days and prayed to the Queen of Heaven for mercy. The Most Pure Lady listened to these prayers. The Russian army stormed Chinatown and entered the Kremlin. Three days later, Russian militias marched to the Kremlin in a religious procession, carrying forward the Kazan icon of the Mother of God, the chief servant of the Russian land. In honor of the liberation of Moscow, Tsar Mikhail Fedorovich established the Feast of the Kazan Icon, and around 1636 the image was transferred to the Kazan Cathedral, which was built by Prince Pozharsky in gratitude to God and His Most Pure Mother for saving God-protected Russia. O zealous supplicant, Mother of the Most High Lord, pray for all your Son Messiah our God, and grant all those who seek refuge in your sovereign protection to be saved. Intercede for us all, O Lady Queen and Lady, who in distress and sorrow and sickness, laden with many sins, come and pray to you with a soft soul and a contrite heart, before your most pure image in tears, and those who have irrevocable hope in you, salvation from all evil, save all your words, God, useful to you, because God is useful to you. servant.

Happy Feast of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God, brothers and sisters! During the Troubles, Russian land was occupied by the damned Poles. At the call of St. Hermogenes, the Patriarch of Moscow, the Russian people rose in defense of the faith and the Church. A miraculous image of the Holy Mary was sent from Kazan to the militia led by Prince Dimitri Pozharsky. Before the liberation attack on Moscow, Christ's army fasted for three days and prayed to the Queen of Heaven for mercy. The Most Pure Lady listened to these prayers. The Russian army stormed Chinatown and entered the Kremlin. Three days later, Russian militias marched to the Kremlin in a religious procession, carrying forward the Kazan icon of the Mother of God, the chief servant of the Russian land. In honor of the liberation of Moscow, Tsar Mikhail Fedorovich established the Feast of the Kazan Icon, and around 1636 the image was transferred to the Kazan Cathedral, which was built by Prince Pozharsky in gratitude to God and His Most Pure Mother for saving God-protected Russia. O zealous supplicant, Mother of the Most High Lord, pray for all your Son Messiah our God, and grant all those who seek refuge in your sovereign protection to be saved. Intercede for us all, O Lady Queen and Lady, who in distress and sorrow and sickness, laden with many sins, come and pray to you with a soft soul and a contrite heart, before your most pure image in tears, and those who have irrevocable hope in you, salvation from all evil, save all your words, God, useful to you, because God is useful to you. servant.