Who wrote this bright image and what is its overallprehistory, is for certain unknown. Accurate information has only begun to reach us since 1579. That year was very difficult for the Kazan land. The summer was arid and hot, which caused a fire near the church of Nikolai Tulsky. The flame quickly passed first to the Kremlin, and then to the homes of ordinary people, destroying part of the city. Muslims and pagans, of whom there were a great many on these Tatar lands, not so long ago won by the Russian army under the tsar Ivan the Terrible (1552), rejoiced, and said that the Orthodox faith in these parts came to an end. And indeed, many began to doubt and grumble. When the people were still rebuilt, then one nine-year-old girl named Matrona had a dream in her dream, in which the Mother of God herself came and indicated the place where the icon was buried. She ordered the governors and the archbishop to speak about this. But the girl just laughed. After the third repetition of the dream, the mother and her daughter, and with them the rest of the people, went to look for the icon in the place indicated. Whoever was digging, the icon was not there, but as soon as Matron began to work, the image was immediately found.
He was wrapped in a cloth flap and looked like this,as if he had just been written. This icon was immediately identified in the church. The Kazan Icon of the Mother of God, the significance of which was not yet known, as well as from where it appeared in the place at all, from the first day showed its miraculous power, healing a lot of people. Among them, especially Joseph and Nikita were given - blind beggars who had not seen for years, but after the prayer the image immediately began to see clearly.
Such a wonderful phenomenon of the holy image helpedto strengthen oneself in the faith and again to return to the true path. On the site of the acquisition of the icon, Ivan the Terrible ordered the rebuilding of the monastery with a female abode, in which the first nun became the same Matrona (and later the abbess). Over time, the image was moved to the Kazan temple on Red Square. The Kazan Icon of the Mother of God (the meaning of it) was immediately appreciated, because of it many miraculous healings took place, not only physically, but also spiritually. Its glory grew day by day.
Later, this icon was associated not only with healingphysical and spiritual, but also multiple victories over the enemies of the Russian land. She was made from lists and sent to churches. But, as the icon suddenly appeared, it disappeared. In 1904, it was stolen, and its whereabouts are still unknown.
Further in the history there is a continuation, but already about the lists from the Kazan icon of the Mother of God.
Since the original image did not survive to ourdays, or more precisely, it was lost, it is only on the lists that it is judged how and to whom it helps. As mentioned earlier, the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God is of special importance for the healing of the blind. And this applies not only to the physically blind, but also to those who have lost the spiritual ability to see those lost on the way.
