2009 Korennaya Hermitage Service
On September 25th The Kursk Root Icon Returned to it's home roots at Korennaya Hermitage in the Kursk Region of Rusiia. The monastery had many workers getting the new Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary Church ready for the return visit of it's icon at the end of the summer. This Church was rebuilt exactly like the one that the Soviet Union had destoryed. What a wonderful addition to the monastery. This next year the seven Holy Springs will be improved with better walkways and spring buildings. The Kursk Root Icon was found here in the roots of a tree by the lower river in 1295.
Tthe head of the Kursk region Alexander Mikhailov met with Metropolitan Hilarion, First Hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia. During the meeting the head of the ROCOR has confirmed that it is now in the travel schedule of the miraculous Kursk Root Icon of the Mother of God of the Sign "would include annual visits to Kursk.
In September 1991, His Holiness Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Alexy II has called the Kursk Root Hermitage the third spiritual center of Russia, along with the Trinity-Sergiev Lavra and Diveevsky abode Seraphim of Sarov in the Nizhny Novgorod region.
2009 Summer Report
You can watch some videos about the return of the Kursk Root Icon to it's home roots and see the new Church. 2009 Korennaya Hermitage Kursk Root Icon Service in New Stone Church
Here are some other videos about the return visit of the Kursk Root Icon to it's home roots at Korennaya Hermitage witch is located in Svodoba Village in the Kursk Region of Russia. The Icon was found in 1295. The Kursk Root Icon will now be returning every summer.
September 12th 2009 the Kursk Root Icon returns to visit Russia. The Icon landed in
Sheremetyevo Airport in Moscow and stayed there for a week and then returned were it had been found in the year 1295. It has been in the USA under the protection of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia they were keeping it safe from the old Soviet Union for the past 50 years.
On the 23rd of September 2009, the Kursk-Root Icon, the Kursk-Root Icon Arrives in Kursk, in the presence of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill and the delegation of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia, arrived in Kursk, Russia. It was greeted by local clergy and government officials and a massive crowd of faithful. Following its arrival, a service was held in the center of the city atteneded by thousands of people. The festive and historic occasion left a deep impression on all who attended. A Kursk Root Icon Procession was done on 9-25-09 to it's home roots at the Korennaya Hermitage Monastery 30 Km North of Kursk in the Sovodoba Village. The Icon Stayed here for a few exta days as the pilgrims turnout was very large and many stayed in line for many many hours even the ill to venerate the Holy Icon at its roots.
Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary Church Opens 9-23-2009
Korennaya Hermitage new Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary Church 2009 Openning Service with the Return visit of the Kursk Root Icon 1295
The Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, Kirill sanctify revived the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Cathedral Church at the Men's Kursk Root Hermitage in the town of Svodoba (Freedom). The consecration of the temple, visiting the exhibition, which is devoted to the history of the monastery and the miraculous icon.
Patriarch Kirill's Sermon on 24 September, 2009 after the consecration of the new Blessed Virgin Mary Cathedral at the Kursk-Root Hermitage in Kursk, Russia.
The Deputy head of the regional government, Igor Pakhomov, announced that at the beginning of June the construction of the cathedral had been spent 97 million rubles. On the improvement of the village of Liberty and the cloister of monks in recent years from various sources was drawn more than 600 million rubles.
The 97 million Russian rubles = 3.36687 million U.S. dollars
600 million Russian rubles = 20.82600 million U.S. dollars
History of Korennaya Hermitage Monastery from 1295 to 2010
Korennaya Monks Movie Part #1, Part #2, Part #3, Part #4
History of Korennaya Hermitage Monastery from 1295 to 2010. Russian Monk Seraphimn is speaking at the Korennaya Hermitage about dedicated monastics, monastic life, inhabitants of a Korennaya Monastery, Discovering the Kursk Root Icon, the miracles that happened in the monastery, the invasion of the Tatars, and the modern life of the monastery. *Sorry, only in Russian Language but even the pictures are worth thousands of words.
ON RuTube.ru Part 1 of 4
Special Kursk Root Icon Procession from the Kursk
Znamensky
of the Sign of the Cathedral Monastery to the Korennaya Hermitage Monastery in Svodoba Village North of Kursk Russia. Video in Russian Language only.
Kursk Root Icon Procession 9-25-2009: A picture tells a 1000 words from Voices from Russia http://02varvara.wordpress.com/2009/09/
Kursk Icona: flv movie
Kursk Root Icon in Russia: 3gp movie
Kursk Root Icon Visit to Kursk Russia: 3pg movie
Traditional Kursk Root Procession Movie: starting from the Kursk Sign Cathedral and going to the Korennaya Hermitage.
In honor of the arrival of the icon of the Sign, Kursk issued a envelope and postcard
Kursk, September 9. By order of the Kursk branch of the Post of Russia with the blessing of the Archbishop Herman of Kursk and Rylsk produced labeled envelopes and postcards, for the arrival at the main Kursk Russian Orthodox Church - Icon of the Theotokos of the Sign Kursk.
The envelope shows the church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the Korennaya Hermitage (photo from the archives of the President of the Kursk regional public fund of the Orthodox tradition, socio-economic and cultural revival of "Aboriginal desert", the Secretary of the Political Council for Integrated revival of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary Monastery Aboriginal desert Sergei Loktionova) and the inscription - "Yet you icons of the Sign of the Mother of God of Kursk in the limits of the Fatherland.
Colorful postcard with the image of the miraculous icons of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin in the root of the desert and even the traditional religious procession in Kursk.
The envelope was made in Moscow with circulation of 500,000 copies
