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The ‘Vatican copy’ of the Kazan icon, in a jewelled cover, returned to Russia by the Vatican in 2004 and now kept in KazanImage: Unknown author · Public domainculture · Europe
The icon of Our Lady of Kazan is dug from the ashes
In 1579 a fire destroyed much of Kazan, which Ivan the Terrible had conquered for Russia a generation earlier. A young girl, Matrona, said that the Virgin Mary had shown her in dreams where an icon lay buried, and on 8 July she and her mother dug it out from under a burnt house. Our Lady of Kazan became one of the most revered icons in Russia. The original was stolen in 1904 and probably destroyed; the Russian Church now keeps the feast on 21 July in the modern calendar.
Source: Orthodox Church in America: Appearance of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God ↗
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