FROM THE HISTORY OF THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE ANNUAL BRINGING OF THE MIRACULOUS THEODORE ICON OF THE MOTHER OF GOD TO GALICH IN THE 19TH CENTURY

Kashin Dmitry V.

Metropolitan of Kostroma and Nerekhta Ferapont

Kostroma theological seminary, Kostroma, Russia

Email: ferapontk@ya.ru

ORCID: 0000-0003-2895-9523

Issue: № 2 (26), 2024

Pages: 60

Annotation

The article presents the results of research conducted by the author in the archival fund of the Office of the Holy Synod (Russian State Historical Archive, St. Petersburg). Materials are published about the background to the establishment of bringing the main shrine of the Kostroma land to Galich, which first took place in 1861. It is noted that the first such bringing of the icon to Galich took place in September 1858, when the consecration of the new Trinity Cathedral of the St. Nicholas Starotorzhsky Convent took place. An attempt by some Kostroma merchants and townspeople to counteract the removal of the miraculous image of the Mother of God from Kostroma over long distances is described; the arguments of the Bishop of Kostroma and Galich Platon (Thebes) are given in the polemic on this issue, supported by the Holy Synod and set out in the definition of the Synod of May 2 / June 10, 1860. The text of the resolution of the Synod of December 5/22, 1860, which established the annual bringing of the Theodore Icon of the Mother of God from Kostroma to Galich, is published. The article is an expanded version of the text of the report, which the author delivered at the plenary session of the XII All-R ussian Scientific and Theological Conference “Church. Theology. History” February 8, 2024 in Yekaterinburg.

Keywords

Russian Orthodox Church, Kostroma diocese, Feodorovskaya Icon of the Mother of God, Kostroma, Galich, Bishop Platon (Fiveyskiy)

For citation

Ferapont (Kashin), metropolitan of Kostroma and Nerekhta. From the history of the establishment of the annual bringing of the miraculous Theodore Icon of the Mother of God to Galich in the 19th century // Ipatievsky vestnik. 2024. № . 2. Р. 60–76 (In Russian). https:// doi.org/10.24412/2309–5164–2024–2–60–76