St. Uspenska Pochaevska Laura
St. Uspenska Pochaevska Laura
Pochaevska Laurels is situated in the West of Ukraine
in seventy kilometers from the city of Ternopol and in twenty kilometers from
the city Kremenec. It is situated on the high stony mountain towering above all
vicinity more than on seventy five meters. At a sole of mountain from three
parties the place New Pocaev is located.
The
first historical data on Laurels concern to the beginning of the thirteenth century,
by time of invasion of the
Tatar khan Batiy for the Kiev Russ. After
rout of Kiev and destruction of its relics some orthodox Enoch of Kiev caves
ran on the West and have lodged in district Pochaevska Mountain. The founder on
Mountain was Saint Mephodiy.
Curative Stop of the Virgin
As
the national legend which has been written down in ancient books says, the
Phenomenon of Divine Mother on Pochaevska Mountain was in 1920. St. the Virgin
was to several monks and one layman-shepherd by name Join (Ioann). On a place,
where there was a phenomenon, Tsarina Heavenly has left a print right stop.
From this place has hammered in a source of curative water from which and now
believing people receive heaving from various illness.
Since
then it is stop became a place of a feat of many monks under an invisible
fertile cover Over the Virgin.
Wonder-working image of Divine Mother
On Russ St. icon of the Mother of God had brought from
Constantinople Greek metropolitan Ieofit. Traveling across Volynia,
metropolitan for has stopped in manor Url for rest at pious orthodox women
named Anna Goyskaya. Having asked some days, metropolitan has blessed and has
left to her it for shown hospitality icon st. of the Virgin. In 1597 in Anna’s
manor there was a miracle – Anna’s brother Philipp, has burned blind, has
recovered from icon of God’s Mother.
From an icon many miracles began to occur. Anna has
decided to give its monks who lived on Pochaevska Mountain. The same year the
icon has been transferred in Pochaev and to a monastery allotments have been
presented, that the officially approved existence of a monastery.