A procession with the miraculous icon of Emperor Nicholas II took place in Penza

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On December 3, 2023, a citywide procession took place in Penza with the miraculous myrrh-streaming image of Emperor Nicholas II, delivered to the city with the blessing of Metropolitan Seraphim of Penza and Nizhnelomovsky. Metropolitan Seraphim of Penza and Nizhnelomovsk celebrated the meeting of the shrine and the Liturgy in the Epiphany Church.
The procession began with a festive prayer service in the Epiphany Church of Penza, from where the faithful followed the procession to the Spassky Cathedral, where the divine service was completed. Clergy, Cossacks, patriotic organizations of the Penza Metropolitan Area, residents and guests of the city took part in the prayer procession.
Addressing the participants of the procession at the Spassky Cathedral, Metropolitan Seraphim of Penza and Nizhnelomovsky congratulated the faithful on bringing the shrine: "Now each of you will have the opportunity to pray in front of the icon of Tsar Nicholas the Passion-bearer, venerate this image and ask that his intercession not leave us with you, our city and our God-forsaken country. I congratulate you on this significant event and on the upcoming feast of the Entry into the temple of Our Most Holy Lady, Theotokos and Ever-Virgin Mary. May the Lord protect you all!"
The procession is timed to coincide with the exhibition project "The Royal Family: Love and Mercy", which will be implemented in Penza as part of the regional stage of the XXXII International Christmas Educational Readings on the theme: "Orthodoxy and domestic culture: losses and gains of the past, the image of the future." The co-organizer of the exhibition project is the Sretensky Monastery in Moscow. Hieromonk Ignatius (Shestakov), a resident of the monastery, coordinator of this project, specialist in the history and culture of Serbia, held a meeting with representatives of patriotic organizations of the Penza Metropolis immediately after the procession.
The meeting was held in the concert hall of the spiritual and educational center "Spas" at the Spassky Cathedral. The priest spoke about the importance of honoring the holy Royal Passion-bearers and about the experience of the Sretensky Monastery in holding various events dedicated to the royal family. Hieromonk Ignatius offered patriotic organizations cooperation with the Sretensky Monastery and presented flags with the image of the Holy Prince Alexander Nevsky as a gift to their leaders.
The prototype of the icon of Emperor Nicholas II was created in 1996 by the iconographer Pavel Tikhomirov. The paper lithograph, presented to the Moscow surgeon Oleg Ivanovich Belchenko, was pacified for the first time on November 7, 1998, and the myrrh-streaming continues to this day. During this time, the shrine has visited many cities of Russia and abroad. Copies of this icon have even been on board spacecraft and consecrated the space around the planet Earth. In October 2022, the holy image of Tsar Nicholas II, along with the miraculous icons of the Mother of God, visited the soldiers in the SVO zone. The permanent place of residence of the icon is the Church of the Holy Nine Martyrs of Cyzicus in Moscow.
The icon will remain in the Spassky Cathedral until 10 a.m. on December 8. On this day, from 10:00, the icon will be taken by car in a procession around Penza, and then the shrine will go to the city of Kamenka, to the church of the Great Martyr Demetrius of Thessalonica, where it will stay for two hours – from 13:30 to 15:30. Then the icon will be taken to Moscow.

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