The miraculous Kursk-Root Icon of the Mother of God “The Sign” will be brought to Kazakhstan

The miraculous Kursk-Root Icon of the Mother of God “The Sign” will be brought to Kazakhstan В Казахстан будет принесена чудотворная Курская-Коренная икона Божией Матери «Знамение» print version August 6, 2019 7:47 p.m. On August 6, 2019, in the administrative and spiritual and cultural center of the Metropolitan District of the Russian Orthodox Church in the Republic of Kazakhstan named after Metropolitan Joseph (Chernov) in Almaty, Metropolitan of Astana and Kazakhstan Alexander held a working meeting on the preparation of the delivery to the southern capital of Kazakhstan of the miraculous Kursk-Root Icon of the Most Holy Virgin of the "Sign". The meeting was attended by the Secretary of the Kazakhstan Metropolitan District, Honored Art Worker of Russia O.N. Ovchinnikov, the dean of the parishes of Nur-Sultan, Archimandrite Sergiy (Karamyshev), head of the public relations department of the Metropolitan Okrug, archpriest Alexander Suvorov, deputy clerk of the Ascension Cathedral, priest Andrei Shklyar, clerk of the Petropavlyar Alpine church, Alyaksandr Petrimal Pavlodar Archpriest Evgeny Ivanov, Head of the Information Department of the Metropolitan Okrug, Priest Georgy Sidorov, Assistant to the Head of the Metropolitan Okrug, Head of Protocol you are Metropolitan Okrug, Protodeacon Roman Golovin, rector of the Iversko-Serafimovsky monastery of Alma-Ata Igumeniya Lyubov (Yakushkina), adviser to the head of the Metropolitan Okrug on church art A.V. Shikhov, Referent of the Diocese for Economic Affairs S.E. Berezhnov, chief accountant of the diocesan administration T.V. Korovnikova, Head of the Chancellery of the Diocese T.M. Sokolova, director of the television studio of the Metropolitan District "Semirechye" V.L. Posadneva, economist of the diocese A.V. Tikhonov, employees of the diocesan departments and commissions. During the discussion, a plan was approved for holding spiritual, educational, youth and cultural events dedicated to an event significant for the entire Metropolitan Okrug, a number of organizational issues were considered. Metropolitan Alexander gave instructions to those responsible for meeting the shrine. The miraculous image of the Queen of Heaven will be brought to the Kazakhstan Metropolitan District with the blessing of His Holiness Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirill and First Hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Eastern Metropolitan Hilarion of Eastern America and New York . The icon will arrive in Alma-Ata on the evening of October 4 and will remain in the city until October 11. The offering will take place within the framework of the celebration of the 15th anniversary of the establishment of the Council of New Martyrs and Confessors of Kazakhstan and the 20th anniversary of the establishment of the Diocese of Astana and Almaty. The shrine will be accompanied by a delegation of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia led by Metropolitan Hilarion of Eastern America and New York.