Commemorated on September 18
The Staro Rus Icon of the Mother of God was so named because for a
long time it was in Staro Rus, where it had been brought by the Greeks
from Olviopolis during the very first period of Christianity in Russia.
The icon was in Staro Rus until the seventeenth century. In 1655 during a
plague it was revealed to a certain inhabitant of the city of Tikhvin
that the pestilence would cease if the wonderworking Staro Rus Icon were
transferred there, and the Tikhvin Icon sent to Staro Rus.
After
the transfer of the icons the plague ceased, but the people of Tikhvin
did not return the icon and only in the eighteenth century did they give
permission to make a copy of the Staro Rus Icon, which on May 4, 1768
was sent to Stara Russa. A feast was established in honor of this event.
On September 17, 1888 the original was also returned to Staro Rus and a
second Feast day established.
SOURCE:
SAINT OR FEAST POSTED THIS DATE 2013(with 2012's link here also and further, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008 and even 2007!)
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Kazakhstan
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from Baku to Grozny, Chechnya crashed near Aktau in western Kazakhstan.
22 hours ago
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