How the Monastery of the Dormition of the Mother of God in the village of Pohonya was destroyed and rose again, and the miracles of the miraculous icon that spoke
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Collage by Olena Zelenina.
This year, I visited the picturesque village of Pohonia, located among beech forests of Ivano-Frankivsk region, for the second time. Here is the Greek Catholic monastery of the Assumption of the Mother of God of the Order of St. Basil the Great, known throughout Galicia. The main shrine of the monastery is the miraculous icon of the Mother of God, painted by an unknown author almost 400 years ago, which has long been called the “Queen of Redemption” and is located in the monastery church.
Last September, it was for the sake of this icon that we set out on the Pohoha.
And we ended up at the International Rosary Pilgrimage, which was attended by thousands of people from many towns and villages of the Carpathian region and other regions of Ukraine. There was nowhere for an apple to fall in the vast area around the church. The pilgrimage began with the solemn bringing out of the icon of the Mother of God of Pohinsk. It was so crowded that one could not even think of being alone with the miraculous icon.
But this time there were almost no people in the monastery church. Concentrated church silence. The echo of footsteps and hushed voices... And the miraculous icon of the Mother of God, from which the Virgin looks right into your soul
A journalist of Hromada learned about the dramatic history of the Pohynskyi Monastery of the Assumption of the Mother of God, which was destroyed by the Soviet authorities, and about its revival with the onset of Ukraine's independence, as well as about the miracles that accompany the icon of the Mother of God and the almost detective-like return of the main shrine to the monastery church.
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