The Icon of God’s Mother “Umilenie’ (“Tenderness”) was brought to the Chisinau Monastery “Great Saint Martyr Teodor Tiron”, known as Ciuflea, from Lokoti settlement of the Russian region Bryansk on August 8 and will be there until August 21, IPN reports.
According to the website of the Moldovan Metropolitan Church, the Icon of God’s Mother “Umilenie” is a copy of the icon to which Saint Serafim of Sarov bows. The icon has a separate history. A woman from Lokoti bought an expired calendar and put it on the wall to honor the portrait of the Mother of God from it. Shortly afterward, on November 2, 1999, the image started to produce chrism.
“The front side of the calendar was printed on the simplest paper and the back side was of simple white paper. When the calendar was taken down from the hall, the image remained as a profile on the back side. That’s why this icon is unusual,” said the icon’s custodian Yuri Shishkov from Russia.
The icon obtained two identical faces and nobody dared to cover one of these. According to the Metropolitan Church, the icon cured persons suffering from cancer and women who could not give birth to babies, when these prayed before it to the Mother of God.
