The Virgin of Pechersk

Origin: Ukraine
Age: XIXth Century
Composition: Tempera on wood
Measures Cms: 68,7 X 52,0 X 2,7

In the city of Yaroslavl, the citizen Alexandra Dobychkina suffered for seventeen years from a terrible emotional and bodily illness. In 1823 she saw in a dream a church with an icon of the Mother of God. She searched the temple and found the icon that she had seen in her vision, it was the temple of the Venerable Wooden Procession of the Lord’s Cross. Entering the church, distressed, she saw on the wall the painting of the Kiev Mother of God Caves. She suddenly had a powerful attack of fever, which was relieved to later cure her painful illness. From that time on, miraculous healings occurred.