Our Lady of Kazan Icon finally found!

[bogoliubtsy]

Ummm.....
That article is from the 1960's!!

[Joseph]

You think art dealers are bad? They make you insane? It may be more serious than you think, my friend. My parish priest, Rev. Fr. Mark Gilstrap (ROCOR), told me something horrifying. The Myrrh-Streaming Iveron icon has been missing ever since its bearer, Brother Jose Munoz (actually "Father" Jose, he was tonsured secretly, according to Fr. Mark's account), was the victim of a ritual murder in Athens in 1997. His body was found in an Athens hotel, it looked like the work of Satanists. Perhaps God alone knows the whereabouts of the Iveron.

Rest in peace Martyr Jose. Memory Eternal!

[Methodius]

Ummm.....
That article is from the 1960's!!

I thought it was from May 8, 2003?

[bogoliubtsy]

It's from May 8th, 1963.

[Natasha]

The headline and picture reads 1963, but the article quoted reads 2003.

[bogoliubtsy]

Well, Archbishop John Shahovsky reposed a good number of years ago and the OCA hasn't been called the Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Metropolia since before 1970.

[mwoerl]

the icon in the article with abp. john shakhovskoy, i believe, is the very same one the vatican now has-if i remember correctly, they couldnt come up with the money, and the icon was eventually purchased by catholics that had something to do with fatima, and said the icon would be returned to russia on its "conversion," whatever that might have meant.
i also think this same icon was for sale for quite awhile, and remember that saint john of shanghai and san francisco said that it WAS NOT the original kazan icon, as the dimensions were not correct.

also-"three" miraculous icons? there are hundreds of wonderworking icons within orthodoxy! many in russia, many on mt athos (just those on mt athos would probably make for a sizable book), many in greece, in georgia....i used to have a russian book that listed all the wonderworking icons of the mother of god in prerevolutionary russia-while some entries were several pages, most were less than a page-the book was at least 500 pages. many of these icons still exist in russia, some are in the diaspora.
one of the most important wonderworkiong icons in russian history, the tikhvin icon of the mother of god, will soon be returned to the tikhvin monastery in russia by its guardian, a priest of the oca, son of the late bishop john garklvas of the oca, who, during wwII was given the icon by the monks of the tikhvin monastery, asking him to safeguard it. he promised to return it once the monastery reopened.
michael woerl