If you dreamed of an icon, then you consider your relationship with your partner to be sinful and wrong. What then, in your opinion, should they be and whether in this case it is necessary to be guided by some rules.
Nostradamus said: “The icon is a symbol of spirituality, prophecy, repentance.
The dream in which you pray in front of the icon means that you pay too much attention to material problems and forget about spiritual ones.
See in a dream crying icon- a bad omen.
If in a dream you hold an icon in your hands, in reality you will receive the long-awaited news.
To dream about how you put a candle in front of the icon is to feel remorse because of past mistakes.
The fallen icon is a symbol of a fatal mistake.
And the Bulgarian soothsayer Vanga interpreted the dreams in which the icon appears in this way: “We saw icons in the house in a dream - such a dream predicts that a conflict will break out in your family.
If you dreamed of icons in a church, then this means that your only salvation in difficult times will be faith, and even if you are not very religious man but come to church as the prodigal son, and God will not turn away from you.”
D. Loff wrote: “Dreams about icons often reflect either strength or unity. You want to feel unity with the universe, and icons are the right link to make that unity happen. Sometimes you may dream of a situation in which, in order to resolve a conflict, you need supernatural power. Icons in this case will serve as a guide or a symbol of such power. There is a huge number of icon images available to all people. Those that you find in your dreams will also be related to your life experiences (for example, crucifixion, full moon, Star of David, Stonehenge, Buddha).
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Dream Interpretation - Icon
The dream in which you see the icon is a sign of providence that will put you before a test, either you choose a dishonorable path that promises you material benefits, or you prefer decency to easy money. Seeing in a dream a lot of icons at once - in reality you will experience joy in the family. To light candles or a lamp in front of the icon - you will have to endure hardship and humiliation.
Interpretation of dreams fromThere is a small town in Portugal - Fatima. In tourist guides, it is noted as one of the most important pilgrimage centers of the entire Iberian Peninsula. But it is surprising that, it turns out, the shrine in Fatima is directly connected with Russia, and most importantly, no guidebooks write about it! - With catholic church adjacent to the Orthodox, which is woven into the history of one of the most mysterious disappearances of the 20th century ...
... Having rounded the temple on the right and walked several tens of meters through the park, I suddenly saw an Orthodox onion rising from behind the trees. And after a couple of minutes, a church appeared in front of me - judging by the architecture, it was not a very old building. More precisely, not a church, but a rather impressive building, above the central part of which there was an onion dome. Not far from him, on the roof, a satellite dish looked up at the sky.
This is the Blue Division building,” the guide explained.
What is the Blue Division? Where Orthodox church V pilgrimage center Catholics? Unfortunately, the questions remain unanswered.
We went inside. On the second floor, under the dome, there was a church. Truly Orthodox. Among the icons, I found the image of St. Herman of Alaska, canonized by the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad and most revered in America. It was not possible to find out anything else about the temple: the corridors and stairs of the building were deserted, and downstairs, in the hall, near the kiosk where icons, postcards, religious literature and videotapes were sold, there was a sign: "I'll be back in half an hour."
But before we left the temple, the guide told me the most amazing thing: for many years, until recently, the original icon of Our Lady of Kazan was kept here, which was considered missing for many decades! Later, this information was confirmed to me by the Portuguese journalist José Millazes Pinto, who spent many years in Russia and knows our country well. Jose himself saw the icon in Fatima - an old one, in an expensive gold setting, decorated precious stones…
... In 1579, in Kazan, which was only recently conquered from the Tatars, a powerful fire broke out, which destroyed a significant part of the city. Not far from the place where the fire started, stood the house of one archer, burned down along with others. When the archer wanted to start building a new house on the ashes, the Mother of God appeared in a dream to his nine-year-old daughter Matrona and ordered her to announce to the spiritual and secular dignitaries of the city that they take Her icon from the bowels of the earth, and showed her the place on the ashes of the burnt house where the icon was hiding . At first, the girl did not tell anyone about her dream, then she told her mother, but she did not pay attention to the words of the child. When the dream was repeated for the third time, Matrona nevertheless forced her mother to listen. And on July 8, Matrona found an icon on the ashes, which the Mother of God pointed out to her.
The icon was wrapped in a sleeve of shabby clothes, but at the same time it did not suffer at all. They removed the list from the icon and sent it to Tsar Ivan the Terrible, who ordered to found a convent at the place where the icon was found...
Since that time, the icon has been in the Bogoroditsky Monastery in Kazan, the nun of which was the Matrona who found it. At first, the icon was revered only as a local one. But in 1611, during the Time of Troubles, her list was brought from Kazan to Moscow, along with the Kazan militia, to the camp of Prince Dmitry Pozharsky by order of Patriarch Hermogenes (on next year deceased martyrdom and later canonized as a saint). On October 22, 1612, Dmitry Pozharsky had this list during the battle with the Poles. The prince, as you know, won, and Tsar Mikhail Fedorovich ordered to honor the miraculous icon twice - on July 8, on the day it was found, and on October 22, on the day of the victory of Russian weapons associated with it.
The original of the icon remained in the Kazan Bogoroditsky Monastery, becoming for three centuries the most important shrine not only of the city, but also of Russia. Pilgrims from all over the country specially came to Kazan to bow to the holy face, which continued to work miracles.
Even under Ivan the Terrible, the icon was dressed in a robe of pure gold, and Catherine II in 1767, when visiting the Bogoroditsky Monastery, put a diamond crown on the icon. Nobles and merchants competed in decorating the icon with precious stones and pearls...
But on June 29, 1904, the icon disappeared. From that moment begins the amazing story of her search, her unexpected appearances in various places, hoaxes and mysteries.
The case of the disappearance and search for the icon of Our Lady of Kazan is one of the most famous in Russian pre-revolutionary criminalistics. The investigation has been intermittent for more than ten years. The archives of the Police Department kept two large volumes “On the kidnapping in Kazan from a maiden monastery miraculous icon Kazan Mother of God which cover the period 1910–1917.
The disappearance of the icon excited the whole country and was discussed at the highest level, up to Emperor Nicholas II. The volumes of the file contain a mass of letters and telegrams from such people as Chairman of the Council of Ministers Stolypin, Minister of Justice Shcheglovitov, Minister of the Interior Khvostov, Director of the Police Department Vissarionov, member of the State Council, chamberlain of the court Prince Shirinsky-Shikhmatov, Moscow Governor-General Gerschelman, Prince Obolensky , head of the Moscow detective police Koshko, Grand Duchess Elizaveta Feodorovna, church hierarchs ...
The loss of the shrine was discovered in the early morning of June 29, 1904. The door to the temple was broken open, the church watchman Zakharov was tied up. Two icons disappeared: Our Lady of Kazan and the Savior Not Made by Hands.
The police were immediately raised to their feet, and in hot pursuit the kidnapper was quickly found. It turned out to be Bartholomew Chaikin (also known as Stoyan), a twenty-eight-year-old peasant, recidivist and specialist in church thefts. In 1903, he stole a miter and other church things from the Spassky Monastery in Kazan, in Kovrov from a cemetery church - a chasuble from an icon, in 1904 he committed thefts in Ryazan, in Tula (then a chasuble from the icon of Our Lady of Kazan was stolen worth 20 thousand rubles) , in Yaroslavl. Moreover, he did not steal the images themselves, but only tore off their robes. And this time he claimed that he had sold the jewels and the salary of the image, and that he had split the icon itself and burned it in a furnace.
On November 25, 1904, the trial began. There were six defendants on it: Chaikin-Stoyan himself and a certain Komov - the perpetrators of the theft, the church watchman Zakharov, who was suspected of complicity, the jeweler Maximov, who was accused of facilitating and buying up gold and pearls from icons, Chaikina Kucherova's cohabitant and her mother Schilling, who were accused in harboring the perpetrators of the theft and stolen valuables.
It is noteworthy that during the preliminary investigation Chaikin denied the destruction of the icons. But the cohabitant, her young daughter and mother testified that they saw how he chopped the icons into chips and burned them in the oven. During a search in the oven, 4 burnt pearls, a primer from gilding, 2 wires, 2 cloves, 17 loops were found, which, according to the testimony of a nun-witness, were on the velvet lining of the icon. According to Schilling, the ashes from the icons were thrown into the latrine, where they were found by the police.
As a result, Chaikin was given twelve, and Komov - ten years of hard labor, Maksimov - two years and nine months of correctional detention departments, Kucherova and Schilling - five months and ten days in prison. Zakharov was acquitted.
However, the search for the icon and the study of other possible versions continued. The famous icon had a painfully great value for all Russians, not to mention the cost of its salary, this abduction caused a painfully powerful resonance. Moreover, apart from the traces of burning the icon and some details of the salary, as well as the testimony of the defendants, the police did not have any other evidence. It is also worth remembering that two icons were stolen, and the ashes could belong to only one of them - the less valuable Savior Not Made by Hands. In addition, the salaries of both icons were never found. Therefore, a version arose that Chaikin resold the icon of Our Lady of Kazan for a huge amount to the Old Believers - they really were engaged in a wide purchase of pre-Nikon icons, in particular, they took them from ancient Moscow churches during the ruin of Moscow during the invasion of Napoleon.
On November 12, 1909, a secret report appeared in the bowels of the police. A special official was sent to Kazan, as "serious information about the safety of the miraculous icon of the Kazan Mother of God" reached the ministry. Comrade Minister of Internal Affairs Kurlov removed the Kazan governor and the head of the Kazan gendarme department from the search, entrusting him to the author of the report Prognaevsky. And Koshko sent two of the most experienced agents to help him. One of them reported on the sale of the icon to the Old Believers.
Chaikin at that time was in prison in Yaroslavl. Spies were sent to him, through whom the police hoped to find out about the location of the shrine. But now he only kept talking about the burning of the icon, and not about the sale. However, rumors about the resumption of the investigation already spread throughout the empire, and not bypassing prisons.
And then, unexpectedly, Hieromonk Illiodor receives a letter from the prisoner Korablev from the Saratov prison, in which he says that he knows where the icon is. Illiodor immediately reports this to the Bishop of Saratov Hermogenes, who comes into contact with Korablev.
Korablev reports that the icon is supposedly really in the hands of the Old Believers, and promises to help return it. He even hints that he may have to commit a crime to get her out, but he is ready for anything if his fate is mitigated and transferred to another prison where he could make contact with other participants in the "case". However, if the fathers Germogen and Illiodor believe Korablev, Prognaevsky, experienced in the affairs of the detective, soon becomes convinced that the prisoner does not have any data, but he simply wants to organize an escape.
But Korablev's "version" has influential supporters. Gershelman, for example, talked about the possibility of mitigating Korablev's fate even at an audience with Nicholas II. But the most remarkable thing: he believed that “it is important to restore the shrine”, since for the church and the Orthodox “it is not so important whether the stolen icon or some other is actually received.”
Nevertheless, after the conclusion of Prognaevsky, the investigation begins again. This time already in St. Petersburg - by this time Chaikin is in the famous Shlisselburg prison.
The well-known criminologist Mikhail Garnet, the author of many works on the history of Russian criminology, believed that the evidence for the burning of the icon by Chaikin was undeniable. In his opinion, this is confirmed by the testimony of the convict during interrogation in Shlisselburg on June 29, 1912. Chaikin then said: “I wanted so badly then to prove to everyone that the icon is not at all miraculous, that they worship it in vain and honor it in vain.”
However, the search for the icon continued. And then Korablev's "understudy" appears - Blinov, a convict from the Chita prison. And everything goes according to the same scenario. Blinov asks for a mitigation of fate, for a transfer to another prison. His version is supported by Bishop John of Chita and even Grand Duchess Elizaveta Feodorovna, who is informed of the prisoner's proposals and who, through intermediaries, enters into negotiations with the thief. In 1915, despite the ongoing world war, a special meeting is being held in Kursk to develop a new version. However, the investigators discover that Korablev only wanted to make a copy and pass it off as a real icon, and he is again shackled. The final truth could not be obtained from Chaikin either.
So the search for the missing icon in Russia did not lead to anything. And then the revolution began, the civil war. It was no longer up to the icon ...
Was the icon burned? If not, where is she located? And if it was really destroyed by Chaikin, then where did her precious robe go? These questions remained unanswered for many years. Of course, Stoyan's specialization in the theft of salaries alone, the testimony of himself and witnesses confirm the version of the destruction of the icon. But, on the other hand, the hardened recidivist was well aware that the cost of the image itself was much higher than the cost of her chasuble. And it is hard to believe in the destruction of the holy face by him only for "ideological reasons".
If the icon of Our Lady of Kazan was actually burnt, then what image hung in Fatima? Fake? Or an old list?
Indeed, it would be much easier to trace the possible path of the icon from Russia to Portugal if early XVII centuries, several lists were not made, and traces of some of them are also lost.
Recall that immediately after finding the icon in Kazan, a list was made from it and sent to Ivan the Terrible. It is also known that in 1611, together with the Kazan militia, another list from Kazan came to Dmitry Pozharsky in Moscow. After the decisive victory over the Poles, he belonged to Prince Pozharsky and was in his parish church - Introduction on Lubyanka, and in 1633 he was personally transferred by the prince to the Kazan Cathedral on Red Square. This means that at the beginning of the 17th century there were already two copies of the miraculous icon in Moscow.
According to church literature, the icon of Our Lady of Kazan, transferred from Kazan to Moscow in 1579 (probably the same list made immediately after the icon was found), remained there until 1721. Then, by the will of Peter I, it was transferred to St. Petersburg, to a temporary stone church, which stood on the site of the current St. Andrew's Cathedral on Vasilyevsky Island, and from there to the Trinity Cathedral, which is on the St. Petersburg side. During the reign of Anna Ioannovna, a wooden church was erected in honor of the Nativity of the Virgin on Nevsky Prospekt near the current Kazan Cathedral. There, in 1737, they transferred the icon, decorated by order of the Empress with precious stones. From the time of Paul I, the cathedral was called Kazan. On September 15, 1811, after the construction of a new cathedral building (now existing), the icon was transferred and placed in its iconostasis. It is also known that Empresses Maria Feodorovna and Elizaveta Alekseevna added a lot of precious stones and pearls to the setting of the icon, and a blue yakhont was received from Grand Duchess Ekaterina Pavlovna as a gift of rare size.
Semyon Zvonarev's book "Forty Magpies" says that the "Petersburg" list at the beginning of the 19th century was made from an icon stored in the Kazan Cathedral in Moscow, especially for the Kazan Cathedral in the "northern capital". This means that the list itself, made for Ivan the Terrible, remained in the capital.
But no matter what icon came to St. Petersburg - the original, made in 1579 for Ivan the Terrible, or a copy from Pozharsky's image, which was made at the beginning of the 19th century - one thing is certain: after the closing of the Kazan Cathedral on Nevsky Prospekt, this image was transferred to the Vladimir temple, which is still in operation today.
And what happened to the icon that was in the Kazan Cathedral in Moscow? After the cathedral on Red Square was closed, its temple image was first transferred to the Cathedral of the Epiphany in Dorogomilovo (now destroyed), and after the closing of this temple in the 1930s, the icon disappeared ...
It is curious that in Moscow, in the Epiphany Cathedral in Yelokhovo, there is now another copy of the Kazan icon, which was also in the Kazan militia in 1612.
It is quite difficult to understand all this, since lists are also called “miraculous icons” in church literature, and it is impossible to understand whether we are talking about the original or copies.
Surely the following is known. The list made for Ivan the Terrible (1579) is either in St. Petersburg or it has disappeared. One list (not later than 1611), which arrived in Moscow with the Kazan militia, is located in the Yelokhov Cathedral in Moscow. Another list (no later than 1611), also from the militia of Prince Pozharsky and kept in the Kazan Cathedral in Moscow, has been lost. Accordingly, we are dealing with more than one loss: in 1904, the original disappeared in Kazan; in the 1930s, the copy that was in the Kazan Cathedral disappeared in Moscow. It is possible that the very first list, made in 1579, also disappeared (although it is not known when and where). So, if Chaikin burned the original, then one of the old lists could appear in Fatima. So it is necessary to look for traces of not one, but several images. And if so, it is easier to search from the end, that is, from Fatima.
The time of the disappearance of one of the old lists of the icon of Our Lady of Kazan - the 1930s - involuntarily suggested the idea of possible involvement in the appearance of the icon on the Iberian Peninsula by the famous collector Calouste Gulbenkyan, whose museum is the most important art museum in Portugal. The fact is that at the end of the 1980s, the Ogonyok magazine published a long article about art treasures sold abroad in the 1920s and 30s from Soviet museums, which also spoke about the oil tycoon Kalust Gulbenkyan.
Referring to John Walker's monograph on the Washington National Gallery, the author of an article in Ogonyok writes that in the late 1920s and early 1930s, Gulbenkian, an Iraqi Armenian, head of the Iraq Petroleum Company, helped Russian communists sell oil on the world market and persuaded them to sell him a number of works of art from the Hermitage in order to increase the reserves of hard currency. To do this, he asked a young German art historian to be his agent for the acquisition of works of art in the USSR. But he refused his offer.
However, the article says later, Calouste Gulbenkian managed to acquire something and significantly replenished the cultural fund he founded in the Portuguese capital - “a kind of branch of the Hermitage”, opened by Gulbenkian in the 1930s. Therefore, I thought, could the list that disappeared in the 1930s somehow end up in his collection in Lisbon, and from there migrate to Fatima?
However, it turned out that the article in Ogonyok contains a number of significant inaccuracies. A visit to the Gulbenkian Museum and making the very first inquiries immediately destroyed this version. The Calouste Gulbenkian Museum in Lisbon is part of a private foundation set up by an oil tycoon who was granted asylum and tax relief by Portugal during World War II. In gratitude for this, Gulbenkian gave his host country his art collections and the lion's share of his vast fortune in the form of a cultural fund in 1955.
Thus, in the 1930s, Gulbenkian could not create a “branch of the Hermitage” in the Portuguese capital. In addition, Gulbenkian, indeed buying works of art in Soviet Russia, did not know that he was being sold masterpieces from museums. And, having learned this, he refused to continue to acquire paintings in the USSR. This is evidenced by a letter written by Gulbenkyan on July 31, 1930 to Georgy Pyatakov, the head of the State Bank of the USSR: “You know, I have always been of the opinion that things that have been stored in your museums for many years cannot be the subject of sales. They are not only a national treasure, but also a great source of culture and national pride… I sincerely believe that you should not sell anything even to me…”
So the accusations against the creator of the richest museum in Portugal in the deliberate devastation of the art collections of Russia are unfair. It is curious that the text of this letter is also quoted in the Ogonkovskaya article. However, its author for some reason does not take it into account. But for our search, the main thing is different: Gulbenkyan was interested in the works of only the classics of Western European painting and the art of the East. In general, be that as it may, the icon of Our Lady of Kazan did not get to Portugal through Gulbenkian. But then how?
Therefore, I decided to find out what kind of organization the Blue Division was, which built an Orthodox church next to the Catholic shrine, where the icon was kept?
And then I was helped by José Millazes Pinto. First of all, he told me about Orthodox Church at Fatima and the Blue Division.
It turned out that the "Blue Division" is an anti-communist Catholic organization that was created after the Second World War in the United States in order to prevent the spread of communism in the world. Its positions are especially strong in Latin America, as well as in Spain and Portugal. And on the site of the appearance of the Mother of God in Portugal - and the prophecies given by Her in 1917 directly concerned the fate of Russia - the "Blue Division" decided to place the famous miraculous icon from Russia. The “Blue Division” built its building in Fatima in the 1950s, and the Orthodox church under him, called “Byzantine” there, was specially designed for the famous icon. So the icon came to Portugal from the USA. And that means that traces of the missing image from Russia lead to America.
Milyazesh Pint managed to trace the path miraculous image from Russia to Fatima. According to him, the icon with Wrangel's troops, which disappeared in 1904, was transported to the Crimea, from there to Romania, and then ended up in the United States. And there, from Russian emigrants, the icon passed to the Blue Division.
This story looks very plausible, but it is surprising that nothing has been heard about such a famous icon for several decades!
Interestingly, in the 1960s, information was received from England that an “ancient Kazan icon of the Mother of God, in many respects resembling a genuine one,” was found in the possession of one collector. She - as they say in the book "Forty Forties" - was transported to the USA, where the Archbishop of San Francisco John Shakhovskoy tried to organize a fundraiser for the purchase of the shrine, but the required amount was not collected. How the icon ended up with a collector in England (they say he exhibited it at the famous Sotheby's) - there is no information about this. But the main thing is that according to this version, Our Lady of Kazan ended up in America! But what was this icon? The original (surviving, and not burned by Chaikin at all)? One of the old lists? Fake?
Regarding the icon that arrived from England, experts found out that its salary is genuine, from the most miraculous image from Kazan, stolen by Chaikin, but she herself is a wonderful copy of the 20th century. The following is said about the further fate of this image in the book “Forty Forties”: “In the end, the icon was acquired catholic church and placed in the famous place of the apparition of the Mother of God in Portugal in 1917 - Fatima, in the Eastern Center of the Catholics.
Which version is closer to the truth? According to Milyazes Pint, the icon ended up in Fatima in the late 1950s. In England, the icon “surfaced” only in the 1960s. Moreover, she allegedly completed her journey in Portugal. What kind of icon came to the Iberian Peninsula from the USA? Maybe another doppelgänger? But then what about the setting of the icon that hung in Fatima, which, judging by the descriptions of the Portuguese journalist, was ancient and, perhaps, really belonged to the original icon? So it is necessary to look for traces of the icon after all in the USA of the 1950s-1960s.
The only thing that can be said with almost certainty is that the salary of the icon kept in Fatima was genuine. But there is no clarity about the icon itself. Was it an original icon from Kazan, a “Moscow” list from the Kazan Cathedral that disappeared in the 1930s, or a “beautiful copy” of the 20th century?
It would not be difficult to answer this question if one could see the icon itself. But she was out of sight again. True, this time it was no longer a loss. And traces of the icon were not lost: it ended up in the Vatican.
As José Millhases Pinto found out, under the terms of the former owners of the icon, it had to return to Russia after the fall of the communist regime. Perhaps the icon would have returned to its homeland after all the vicissitudes. However, there was one very significant obstacle.
To whom should the image be returned? Russian Orthodox Church or Russian Orthodox Church Abroad? Unfortunately, the two churches still cannot come to an agreement. Therefore, instead of Russia, the icon from Fatima was transferred to the Vatican, where it remains to this day. And when Russia will regain it, it is not clear.
So, as before, the fate of the miraculous icon of Our Lady of Kazan is surrounded by mysteries. Many questions could be shed light on the expertise of icons and oklads that “surfaced” in England, the United States, and then Portugal, but until recently, neither the Vatican, nor even organizations such as the Blue Division, were available to our specialists. . And the current (as well as the former) owners of the holy image, of course, would not really like it if, as a result of the examination, the icon, around which there was so much noise in the 20th century, turned out to be a fake. Here it would be appropriate to recall that even in pre-revolutionary Russia, the Moscow Governor-General Gerschelman, who had an audience with Nicholas II, believed that “it is important to restore the shrine”, and “it is not so important whether the stolen icon or some other is actually received.”
Why does the icon fall in the house, does the sign want to warn about the sinfulness of the owner, future misfortune? And if the glass breaks on it, the frame breaks?
Popular rumor assures: the fallen icon is a warning from above. Maybe your personal “high bodyguard” strongly recommends that you reflect on some mistake made recently, or be very careful in the future.
- If the image of God seems to have fallen from a nail on the wall for no reason, it Bad sign warning of a serious illness and even the death of a loved one.
- Sometimes the fall of the shrine says: difficulties are coming, tests of “strength”. Be careful: you must pass them with dignity, without sinning!
- If the icon fell backwards, this may mean: the owner of the house in a sinful plan is sinking lower and lower. It's time to repent and do good deeds, or at least stop soiling the soul with constant sins.
- If, on the contrary, you are going to do something pleasing to God, and suddenly an image falls in your house, this evil spirit is trying to prevent you from doing good. Do not give up your plans, because in this case you will follow the lead of the evil one! Make the sign of the cross and go on your way, God will be with you.
- To calm your soul after such a fall, pick up the icon from the floor, run your hand over it, respectfully touch the holy face with your lips, and then hang the icon in its place.
- Also knowledgeable people advise: if there is a seriously ill patient in the family, you may be afraid that the fall of the icon promises his death. To “cancel” a bad omen, go to church, find a similar image there if possible, put a candle in front of it and pray (even “Our Father” will do).
- Finally, there is another opinion: you can take away a bad omen from home if you start praying and fasting every day. How long? Until the end of the current post. If it is not there, it is worth fasting until the end of the future post. By the way, it is not necessary to completely exclude all meat: you can simply limit yourself to sweets, forbid yourself your favorite, but harmful drink, and finally, smoking.
- And if you dreamed about the fall of the icon? Through such a dream, your subconscious mind hints that you have recently screwed up a lot. If you saw the broken face of Christ, the dream warns: one of the relatives will become seriously ill.
- If the icon stood on a smooth shelf and slipped when the children were too naughty nearby (or maybe a cat touched it, or you were cleaning it), this fall does not mean anything bad. It only warns you of one thing: take care to secure the frame sufficiently, as next time you will be dealing with sharp fragments from broken glass.
She still broke
- Most often, signs are frightening: trouble will come to the house. But do not think that the Lord will definitely send her. Maybe someone from your family will be guilty, or even you yourself?
- Sometimes in the house the holy face falls and breaks from machinations evil spirits(by the way, a brownie can also be attributed to otherworldly guests - he is not an enemy to the owners, but he cannot be called a friend of the church either).
- Old grandmothers say: the spirit of the former owner may be in the house, jealous of the new inhabitants of the usual walls. Everything falls out of your hands, do your children often get sick? It would be useful to put a candle in the church for the repose of the former inhabitants, order a prayer service for their souls, or even bless your home.
- The canvas remained intact, only the glass shattered? Replace it, and the icon can be hung in place. It is also worth doing with the frame: glue, repair, replace.
- Do not forget: after the fall, the icon is still a consecrated object! Even if it is badly broken, it is impossible to throw such things into the trash can, it is considered sacrilege. Take it to the church, they know what to do with it.
- Some people believe that a scratched, torn icon should be given to the fire. But this is also a sin. Remember the communists who threw sacred relics into the fire?
You found someone's icon on the street
- So, you need the patronage of this particular saint. Or is it just a sign from above: turn to faith.
- But do not rush to pray to this icon, and even more so to carry it into the house - part of the energy (as well as sins, among which there may be mortals) of its past owner may remain on it. But throwing it back on the pavement is not worth it. Take the icon to the church, ask to consecrate it - now it is completely clean and can be yours.
- Did it fall out of your pocket and get lost? This is not a bad omen. Your personal protector says: he has already saved you from troubles, now he has gone to another person.
Other folk signs associated with icons
- Only the closest people can give and receive an icon as a gift. In our time, it has become fashionable to buy images in an expensive salary, or even old ones for a gift to the boss. It looks presentable... And vicious. But if a mother blesses her daughter, son with an image, endows them with this icon - that's right.
- For a birthday, you can give a nominal icon (especially important if the godfather or godmother brings such a face to the godson). If a person is sick, an image of a holy healer is brought to his house.
- It is also believed that men are given the faces of male saints (Jesus Christ, St. Nicholas, Panteleimon), and girls and women - female (Virgin Mary, icons with the Great Martyrs).
- If you have been given an embroidered icon, ask if it has been consecrated. If not, be sure to take it to the priest. The fact is that it is impossible to put at home, to pray for an icon that has not been in the temple of God.
Important point! Many people hang icons on a hook or carnation. This cannot be done, for the faces of the saints you need to allocate a special shelf.
And what can the priest say about all this?
Among the church commandments there is this one: "Do not make an idol for yourself." She reminds: when praying to an icon, in fact, we communicate with higher powers. Therefore, you should not give the painted canvas too high "authorities" - yes, it is consecrated in the church, but it cannot create someone's fate, bless or curse.
Any priest will say: sometimes beliefs are closely intertwined with faith, and true believers should think well which of the laws was written by the Lord, and which by people. Therefore, obey the commandments, the sermons of the priest, based on Scripture, and folk signs- No. The official church treats them only as folklore, nothing more.
Priest Krysanov will tell you more about this in this video:
The disappearances of Russia's great relics are shrouded in mystery. Sometimes it seems that something supernatural intends to confuse the traces leading to a solution ...
Library of Ivan the Terrible
It is believed that Ivan the Terrible's library was brought to Russia by Sophia Paleolog. Vasily III ordered to start translating these books: there is a version that the famous scientist Maxim Grek was sent to the capital for this.
John IV developed a special relationship with the "ancient Liberia". The king, as you know, was a great lover of books and tried not to part with the dowry of his Byzantine grandmother. According to legend, Ivan the Terrible, after his move to Aleksandrovskaya Sloboda, brought the library with him. Another hypothesis says that John hid it in some kind of reliable Kremlin cache. But be that as it may, after the reign of Ivan the Terrible, the library disappeared.
There are many versions of the loss. The first is that priceless manuscripts burned down in one of the Moscow fires. According to the second version, during the occupation of Moscow, the Poles took the “liberia” to the West and sold it in parts there. According to the third version, the Poles really found the library, but in conditions of famine, they ate it in the same place in the Kremlin.
Myth, as you know, is created by people. For the first time we learn about the "liberean" from the Livonian Chronicle. It describes how Ivan IV summoned the captive pastor Johann Vettermann and asked him to translate his library into Russian. The pastor refused.
The next mention is found in the time of Peter the Great. From the note of sexton Konon Osipov, we learn that his friend, clerk Vasily Makariev found a room full of chests in the Kremlin dungeons, told Sophia about this, but she ordered to forget about the find. And so, in line with the classic plot, the clerk carried this secret with him ... until he told the sacristan about everything. Konon Osipov not only undertook an independent search for the treasured room (the passage turned out to be covered with earth), but also raised Peter I himself in search.
In 1822 Christopher von Dabelov, a professor at Dorpat University, wrote an article "On the Faculty of Law in Dorpat". Among other things, he cited a document he called "The Index of an Unknown Person". It was nothing less than a list of manuscripts kept in the library of Ivan the Terrible. When another professor, Walter Klossius, became interested in the original list, Dabelov stated that he sent the original to the Pernov archive. Klossius undertook a search. The document was neither actually nor in the inventory.
Nevertheless, in 1834, after Dabelov's death, Clossius published an article "The Library of Grand Duke Vasily Ioannovich and Tsar Ivan Vasilyevich", in which he spoke in detail about the professor's find and announced the list of manuscripts from the "Index" - the works of Titus Livius, Tacitus, Polybius, Suetonius, Cicero, Virgil, Aristophanes, Pindar, etc.
The search for "liberia" was carried out in the 20th century. As we know, in vain. However, academician Dmitry Likhachev said that the legendary library is hardly of great value. Nevertheless, the myth of the "liberian" is very tenacious. For several centuries, it has been overgrown with new “details”. There is also a classic legend about the "spell": Sophia Palaiologos put the "curse of the pharaohs" on the books, which she learned from the ancient parchment stored in the same library.
For more than half a century, the search for this masterpiece has been going on. Their plot is similar to a twisted mystical and detective novel at the same time.
In 1709, master Schlüter created the Amber Cabinet for the King of Prussia. Friedrich was delighted. But not for long. Strange things began to happen in the room: the candles themselves went out and flashed, the curtains opened and closed, and the room was regularly filled with a mysterious whisper.
“We don’t need such amber!” decided the monarch. The room was dismantled and removed to the basement, and master Schluter was expelled from the capital. The son and successor of Friedrich, Friedrich-Wilhelm, presented the amber room to Peter I.
For several decades, the dismantled office was gathering dust somewhere in the royal warehouse, until it was discovered by Empress Elizaveta Petrovna. The room was safely assembled in the Winter Palace, but something went wrong.
A month later, the empress orders the abbot of the Sestroretsk monastery to send thirteen of the most pious monks. Monks spend three days in the amber room in fasting and prayer. On the fourth night, the blacks proceed to the procedure of exorcism. For a while the room "calmed down".
With the beginning of the Great Patriotic War the office mysteriously ended up in the Royal Castle of Königsberg. After the Soviet troops stormed Königsberg in April 1945, the amber room disappeared without a trace, and its further fate is still a mystery.
There have been repeated searches for the missing relic. Everyone who participated in them died under mysterious circumstances.
The Amber Room has been restored. From time to time, original items from the "bad old" amber room that pop up at auctions confirm Good work Russian restorers.
An outstanding monument of ancient Russian architecture was built under Prince Andrei Bogolyubsky in 1164. In beauty, grandeur and architectural power, it surpassed the golden gates of Kyiv, Jerusalem and Constantinople.
The massive oak gates were decorated with cast gold plates. “Prince them with gold,” as recorded in the Ipatiev Chronicle.
The gates disappeared in February 1238, when the Tatar-Mongol rati approached the city. Khan Batu dreamed of triumphantly entering the city through the Golden Gate. The dream didn't come true. The public execution in front of the Golden Gate of Prince Vladimir Yuryevich, who was captured in Moscow, did not help Batu either.
On the fifth day of the siege, Vladimir was taken, but through a different gate. And the Golden Gate in front of Batu did not open even after the capture of the city. According to legend, the golden gate plates were removed and hidden by the townspeople in order to protect the relic from the encroachments of the Horde. They hid it so well that they still can't find it.
They are neither in museums nor in private collections. Historians, having carefully studied the documents of those years and based on the logic of the defenders of Vladimir, suggest that the gold was hidden at the bottom of the Klyazma. Needless to say, neither the search for professionals nor the digging of black archaeologists brought results.
Meanwhile, the wings of the Golden Gates of Vladimir are listed in the UNESCO registers as a value lost by mankind.
Remains of Yaroslav the Wise
Yaroslav the Wise, son of Vladimir the Baptist, was buried on February 20, 1054 in Kyiv in the marble tomb of St. Clement.
In 1936, the sarcophagus was opened and, with surprise, several mixed remains were found: a male, a female, and several bones of a child. In 1939 they were sent to Leningrad, where scientists from the Institute of Anthropology established that one of the three skeletons belonged to Yaroslav the Wise. However, it remained a mystery to whom the other remains belonged and how they got there.
According to one version, the only wife of Yaroslav, the Scandinavian princess Ingegerde, rested in the tomb. But who was Yaroslav the child buried with him?
With the advent of DNA technology, the question of opening the tomb arose again. The relics of Yaroslav - the most ancient of the surviving remains of the Rurik family, had to "answer" several questions. The main one of which: the genus of Rurikovich - Scandinavians or all the same Slavs?
September 10, 2009, looking at the pale anthropologist Sergei Szegeda, museum staff Sophia Cathedral understood: things are bad. The remains of Grand Duke Yaroslav the Wise disappeared, and in their place lay a completely different skeleton and the Pravda newspaper from 1964.
The riddle of the appearance of the newspaper was quickly solved. She was forgotten by Soviet specialists, the last ones who worked with bones. But with the "self-proclaimed" relics, the situation was more complicated. It turned out that these were female remains, and from two skeletons dating from completely different times! Who these women are, how their remains ended up in the sarcophagus, and where Yaroslav himself disappeared, still remains a mystery.
Faberge egg. Gift of Alexander III to his wife
Emperor Alexander III presented it as a gift to his wife Maria Feodorovna for Easter in 1887. The egg was made of gold and richly decorated with precious stones; it is surrounded by wreaths of leaves and roses, inlaid with diamonds, and all this brilliant splendor is complemented by three large sapphires. Hidden inside is a Swiss watch movement from Vacheron & Constantin. During the revolution, the gift of the monarch was confiscated by the Bolsheviks, however, he "did not leave" Russia, as he was mentioned in the Soviet inventory of 1922. However, this was the last "trace" of the precious egg, antiquarians considered it lost.
What was the surprise of specialists when an American collector saw a photograph of a masterpiece in the old catalog of the auction house Parke Bernet (now Sotheby "s) for 1964. According to the catalog, the rarity went under the hammer as a simple piece of jewelry, the manufacturer of which was a certain "Clark" .
The royal gift was sold for ridiculous money - $2,450. Experts perked up, as it became known that the egg was in the UK at that time, and is unlikely to have been taken out of the country until now. Most likely, the current owners are not even aware of the true value of the egg. According to experts, its cost now is about 20 million pounds.
Kazan Icon of the Mother of God
The holy image was acquired on July 8, 1579 through the appearance of the Mother of God to the young Matrona, on the ashes of the house of the Kazan archer. Wrapped in a shabby sleeve, the icon did not suffer from the fire at all. The fact that the image is miraculous, it became clear immediately. During the very first procession two Kazan blind men gained their sight. In 1612, the icon became famous as the patroness of Dmitry Pozharsky during the battle with the Poles.
Before the Battle of Poltava, Peter the Great with his army prayed precisely before the icon of the Kazan Mother of God. The Kazan image of the Mother of God overshadowed Russian soldiers in 1812. Even under Ivan the Terrible, the icon was dressed in a robe of pure gold, and Catherine II in 1767, when visiting the Bogoroditsky Monastery, put a diamond crown on the icon.
On June 29, 1904, the icon disappeared. Two shrines were stolen from the temple: the icons of the Kazan Mother of God and the Savior Not Made by Hands. The thief quickly showed up, the peasant Bartholomew Chaikin, a church thief. The defendant claimed that he sold the precious salary, and burned the image in the oven. In 1909, there were rumors that the icon was found by the Old Believers. And it started...
Immediately, several prisoners sitting in different prisons admitted that they knew the location of the shrine. Active searches were carried out until 1915, but none of the versions led to the acquisition of a miraculous image. Was the icon burned? And where did her precious robe go? Until now, this is one of the greatest mysteries of our history.
The creation of the famous cross in 1161 by the master jeweler Lazar Bogsha is connected with the name of this abbess princess. The masterpiece of ancient Russian jewelry art also served as an ark for storing Christian shrines received from Constantinople and Jerusalem.
The six-pointed cross was richly decorated with precious stones, ornamental compositions and twenty enamel miniatures depicting saints. In five square nests located in the middle of the cross, there were relics: drops of the blood of Jesus Christ, a particle of the Lord's cross, a piece of stone from the tomb of the Virgin, parts of the relics of St. Stephen and Panteleimon, and the blood of St. Demetrius. On the sides, the shrine was overlaid with twenty silver plates with gilding and an inscription warning those who steal, give away or sell the shrine, a terrible punishment awaits.
Despite this, the fear of God's punishment did not stop anyone. At the turn of the XII-XIII centuries, the Smolensk princes took the cross from Polotsk. In 1514, he passed to Vasily III, who captured Smolensk. In 1579, after the capture of Polotsk by the Poles, the shrine went to the Jesuits. In 1812, the cross was immured in the wall of St. Sophia Cathedral away from the eyes of the French. During the years of the revolution, the relic became a museum exhibit of the city of Mogilev.
Museum staff, of course, began to celebrate the mass pilgrimage to the shrine. The cross was moved to storage. It was missed only in the 1960s. It turned out that the cross disappeared ...
More than ten versions of the disappearance of an ancient relic were developed. There is a version that it should be looked for in the museum archive of some provincial Russian town. Or maybe the cross went to one of the top military officials of that time ... It is also possible that the cross of Efrosinya Polotskaya ended up in the USA along with other valuables transferred as payment for American military assistance. And there is an assumption that the cross did not leave Polotsk at all, and in 1812, they simply forgot to “demurre” the shrine, mistaking one of the many fakes for a real cross.
Occupying an important place in a person's life, icons have not become an exception for all sorts of signs. In general, signs with icons can be divided into those that can significantly affect a person’s life and those that seem to be not so significant, but their observance is still necessary.
Let's start with the most serious ones. Icons must not be burned, broken, cut or deformed in any way. For such a sin awaits severe punishment up to death. It is impossible to pray for an unlit icon. It is worth purchasing an already consecrated one or taking it to a priest for reading a special prayer.
Needless to say, you bought an icon. It is better to talk about it in such a way that you made an exchange. The presence of a man in the same room with icons is fraught with deprivation of memory, if not reason.
You can shorten your age if you swear or spit near the icon. In case of fire in the house, the first thing to do is to take out the icons. It is believed that bypassing the most important icon around the house, you can contribute to a quick extinguishing.
Sign: Is it possible to give icons as a gift?
Is it possible to give icons as a gift? The one who decided to donate the icon should have pure thoughts. Consider this step carefully, because this is not a simple gift, like a souvenir or a trinket. Such a gift is of particular importance, and the church is very sensitive to the tradition of giving icons.
Most gifts come on the occasion of a holiday or some occasion that is of no small importance to the donee.
On your birthday, you can present an icon with a guardian angel or with the face of the patron of the person you are gifting. Before that, you should definitely know the name, given to man at baptism.
Two icons will be appropriate for the sacrament of the wedding: the Lord Almighty and Holy Mother of God. Please note that they are the same size. After the end of the sacrament of the wedding, the icons should be placed at home in a prominent place and subsequently passed on from generation to generation as a symbol of love, fidelity and mutual understanding. The icon of Saints Peter and Fevronia is also perfect for a gift on this day.
In addition to holidays, there are times when there is a need for protection and patronage.
A pregnant woman will need the icon of the Most Holy Theotokos: "Help in childbirth." The one who recently became a mother will need the icon "Mammal feeder".
The icon of St. Sergius of Radonezh or the Most Holy Theotokos will never interfere with students: “Addition of the mind.” The size is preferably small so that you can easily take it with you to an exam or study.
It is only worth giving up the idea of giving an icon if you assume that the person will not treat it with due attention and respect. The icon is a shrine, but not a souvenir. Well, of course, what to give a symbol Christian faith a person of another religion is unacceptable.
Why does the icon fall?
The opinion of the clergy on this issue is unanimous. First of all, they advise not to panic and remember that true believers know that all signs are from the evil one. Accordingly, it is not worth looking for some deep sacred meaning in the fall of the icon. First of all, you need to turn on the logic and check the very fastening of this shrine.
If it hung on a carnation, this is an unacceptable violation, since the icons must stand firmly and confidently in their proper place. This is due to the fact that the betrayer of Christ - Judas, hanged himself. Not a very good analogy, is it? Therefore, it is worth finding a more suitable place for the shrine. However, if yes, you didn’t know about such a ban and the icon hung on the wall, then first check how firmly it was fixed and remember, maybe just some kind of blow shook the wall and the icon fell. When it comes to an icon that has fallen from a safe place, it is also worth first checking reasonable versions of why the icon fell.
Despite the disapproving attitude of priests towards belief in omens, people have been observing the causes and consequences of various events for centuries, noticing patterns and consequences. So it is with icons. It is believed among the people that such a fall portends misfortunes and troubles, and a more deplorable outcome is not excluded.
However, perhaps the point is that the icon thus pushes a person to confession and atonement for sins. Remember if you did any sinful deeds in front of the saint and if you offended the saint with your behavior or word.
Why did the icon fall and break?
When an icon just falls, it inspires less fear than when it falls and breaks or cracks. However, in this case, you should not immediately tune in to the negative and wait for trouble. Most likely, the face of the saint broke to warn you about something. Perhaps there was a great sin on your part recently, or you have deviated from your true path.
Why did the icon of the Mother of God fall?
Such an icon falls, most likely, to great troubles and trials in the family. You should carefully analyze current and future events and understand where the threat may come from. The icon should be raised, kissed, asked for forgiveness for everything that you could have done wrong, then go to church and light candles for the health of all family members living in the house where the icon fell. Do not forget to light a candle and pray to the very image of the Mother of God.
Why did the icon of Nicholas the Wonderworker fall?
Nicholas the Wonderworker with his fall can warn of health problems or unexpected financial difficulties. Be careful and do not take any risky actions. Think even more carefully than usual, and be alert for other possible signs or hints.
Why did the icon of the seven-shooter fall?
The seven-shot icon is designed to protect the house and the people living in it from any evil that can penetrate inside. Therefore, if this image falls, it should be assumed that she saved you from the negativity that tried to get into the house. Thank the saint for this and be sure to put the icon in its place.
The icon fell - what could it be for, the question, of course, is complex, and therefore it should be considered taking into account the specific aspects of this event. In order to fully understand what happened, you should turn to the priest and ask him for advice, telling about all the accompanying circumstances. If the glass or frame is broken or cracked, it is worth replacing them with new ones, just do not throw them in the trash, wrap them in a rag, take them along with the icon to the priest. He will tell you what to do. Most likely, he will advise you to clean them with water, and forgiveness should be asked from the icon itself, putting a candle to the saint whose image has fallen.
Sign: find an icon
The omen is contradictory - to find an icon on the street. On the one hand, this may mean that the found icon was waiting for you, and on the other hand, it is likely that this item is full of negative energy. Remember that damage cannot be transmitted through consecrated objects, but when you see an icon on the street, you cannot be sure that it is consecrated, which means that it could easily become an object of damage.
Therefore, having seen an icon on the street or in another place where it is not possible to find its owner, one cannot pass by the icon. Raise it, but mindful of the possible negative impact do not pick it up with bare hands. Take a scarf and, wrapping the icon in it, pick it up.
You cannot immediately carry such an icon into the house, but you also cannot pass by, because suddenly you will pass by the help that the Almighty wanted to offer you. Finding an icon is a good omen for the most part, you just have to do the right thing after you find the image. Take the icon to the church and consecrate it.
After consulting with the priest, decide whether to take the icon home or leave it in the church. You will no longer be able to dispose of the icons donated to the temple, so think over everything right away.
According to the site "Psychic"
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