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The Icon of the Most Holy Mother of God “Portent” (“Znamenie”) brought to Kursk ( 05.10.2009 )

At the day of October the 1st, 2009, during his working visit of Kursk, the President of Russian federation Mr. Dmitry Anatolyevich Medvedev has visited the Portent (Znamenskii) Cathedral Temple, where one of the most main Orthodox Sanctity – the Kursk’s Icon of the Most Holy Mother of God “Znamenie” (“Portent”) has been brought for pray to the faithful people – announced the official site of the Russian President.

 

The Icon had been taken out from Russia in 1920, and has become the Main Sacredness of the Russian Overseas Orthodox Church. Since 1957 it was placed in the Portent Temple in New York. In September 2009, the miraculous Icon for the first time after many decades has been brought back to Russia by the Official delegation of the Russian Overseas Church.

 

The Russian President, Mr. Medvedev, as well, met the delegation of the Russian Overseas Orthodox Church lead by their Head of Church, East American and New York Metropolitan Hillarion in Kursk.            

 

Source: Патриархия.ru