The Nyametsk Icon of the Mother of God
Commemorated on June 26
The Nyametsk Icon
of the Mother of God was given as a gift by the Greek emperor Andronikes
Paleologos to the Moldavian ruler Alexander the Voevoda, and then placed into
the Moldavian Nyametsk Ascension monastery.
At this place
afterwards, under the guidance of the Mother of God, were glorified many an
ascetic of the Russian Church, under the lead of the great starets-elder, the
schema-archimandrite Paisii Velichkovsky (1722-1794).
© 1996-2001 by translator Fr. S. Janos.