Traveling around the Samara region: the village of Tashla. Samara region: Holy spring of the miraculous icon of the Mother of God "Deliverer from Troubles" in the village of Tashla in winter

Pilgrimages

02 April 11 Based on materials from the book “Deliverer from Troubles”, ed. A.Zhogoleva

Deliverer from troubles (stories about healings in Tashla)

The miraculous icon of the Mother of God “Deliverer from Troubles” heals from all diseases. Here we present only some of the evidence of the healing of those who bathed in the holy spring.

Servant of God Galina bears obedience at the spring: She lived in the city, came to Tashla, and was healed at the spring. After that, the whole family moved here to permanent place residence. Here's her story:

I myself suffered from allergies for twenty years, my nose couldn’t breathe, my eyes were swollen, there were only slits, I had already developed asthma, I couldn’t walk. In addition, a duodenal ulcer began. I once heard a woman say: “I swam in the holy lake in Tashla and was cured of my allergies.” We came here, met the priest, and doused ourselves with holy water from the spring. And then they came often, going every day for two weeks. And I was completely cured of my allergies. Fully! I couldn’t believe it myself. Father invited us to live in Tashla. We moved here, although I knew that I couldn’t live in the village - I was allergic to quinoa and wormwood. But here my asthma went away and my ulcer went away. It's a miracle. This is the only place where I can be saved. My daughter was once healed of a sore throat. For four days her temperature stayed at - forty. I didn't allow her to swim. She left and came back - and she was healthy. I took a swim in the spring and immediately my throat stopped hurting and my fever went away.

Galina was healed herself, and now she is a witness to many miraculous healings that happen to others, tell

maybe for hours, remembering more and more new cases.

I have been serving at the spring for six years, and during this time many miracles have happened here. Recently a woman came, also Galina, from Tolyatti. Her legs hurt very much, she could hardly walk. She was treated by doctors for several months, but nothing could help her. Her husband lowered her into the font on his knees and helped her take a plunge. She got dressed and ran upstairs! They almost reached the top of the slope, and her husband said to her: “Galina, why are you running?” - “It’s true, my legs are gone!” She was offered surgery. But she fasted, took communion in church, and then was blessed by our priest to bathe. I took a swim and my legs are moving. This all happened before Christmas. There was such joy!

There was a case: a man of about thirty-five came in to take a dip, left his glasses in the font, and came out without glasses. “Oh, he says, my glasses have sunk in the font, I’ll go and look. But you know, I can see well! Now I don’t even need glasses!”

The Mother of God appeared to one woman from Neftyugansk in a dream, showed this font (there was an icon in the font) and said: “Here you will be cured.” This woman did not have children; she was treated for many years, but to no avail. They told her about the spring in Tashla, she came here with her husband, they swam, and after a while we received a letter from them. They had a son.

A woman came from Ukraine. Stands and cries. I ask: “Why are you crying?” - “It’s as if I’ve been here before, but this is my first time here.” And she said that in a dream she saw this source, and in the font there was an icon of the Mother of God with the Child. There are many such stories when in a dream the Mother of God tells a woman: “Go here and swim in the spring - you will have a child.” Then she came and told me that she was healed and became pregnant.

Children are also dipped, even infants. Of course, they are afraid to bathe children, but whoever is bathed, the children become so quiet and meek. There are fewer cases with children, but there was one such case. Mom, dad, son and grandmother came from Samara. They stand, pray and cry: “Sasha needs to have an operation, he was diagnosed with a brain tumor. We need to go to Moscow for the operation.” Don’t cry, I say, you have come to a holy spring, so much healing happens here. Pray, the Mother of God can heal. They calmed down a little, swam and left. And after some time we came on a pilgrimage with Sunday school, my mother was so happy, she said: “We then came from Tashla, I have to go to work, I’m in a hurry, and Sasha says to me: “Mom, mom, wait, I’ll tell you what!” " - "No time, later." - "Yes, I had such a dream, I will forget. I saw the source, Tashla. And it was as if the sky opened up above the source, and from there a staircase descended. And the Mother of God, the Lord and many saints descend down this staircase. And there’s such a forest up there, it’s so beautiful there, what kind of birds there are. And all the animals - both hares and lions - all walk together. And the flowers there, mom, are so beautiful! I say: “Lord, Mother of God!” I ran towards them, fell and broke a tooth. And the Lord comes up to me, put his hand on my head and says: “Sasha, don’t be afraid, you will be healed, nothing will hurt you. Listen to your mother. And when you grow up, you will be a monk.” They walked up these stairs and everything closed. And in fact, in the morning half of Sasha’s tooth disappeared. And his tumor went away.

One man had kidney stones. We advised him to bathe in the spring and drink more Tashlin water. He started doing this. One day he comes and carries a handful of these stones. There are such stones there, it is unclear how they came out, but he says that they came out painlessly.

One guy from Togliatti was cured of AIDS at the spring. When he found out he was sick, he was shocked. I found out about the source and immediately went here. He prayed so much, asked the Mother of God to heal him, and even gave her some words. The next day I went for tests - they found nothing on him.

Those who have pain in their joints, those without children, those with poor eyesight, and those with skin diseases: psoriasis, diathesis in children, are healed a lot in the Tashlinsky spring.

One day a gypsy family arrived from Chelyabinsk. They have nowhere to spend the night, my husband invited them to spend the night with us. They bathed in the spring and came to us. The gypsy mother began to cry: “My son hasn’t slept for a long time, nothing helps him. He has insomnia.” We went to bed, we get up in the morning, and her son is sleeping sound sleep There's no way we can wake him up. He woke up and said: “For the first time in Lately fell asleep. I feel so good here, I don’t want to leave.”

Nun Glafira (in the world Galina Sergeevna Lelyukhova) met us very hospitably. She does not have a simple, but very wonderful fate, like everyone who was called here by the Mother of God to serve Her. It was in that worldly life Mother Glafira has so many things: both joy and sorrow, the loss of her husband, a miraculous healing from heart disease. The wondrous Providence of God brought her to this place, and better place for her there is no one in all the earth. She says that the Mother of God helps her all the time. Mother Glafira said:

When I had obedience at the source, I witnessed such a case. A sick father came from Kyiv to his son in Tolyatti, and they both went to the source. His son took a bath, but he didn’t, he walks and limps: “I won’t take a bath! I can’t sleep at night, I have a trophic ulcer, I can’t get it wet.” I barely climbed up from the source to the car. And early in the morning he flies to the source first: “Mother, I myself have now decided to swim.” He said that they were sitting at home, he didn’t know what to do with his leg - it hurt. He lifted her onto a stool. And they were sitting at the table. I asked my son for holy water, but the son passed the water and accidentally spilled it on his sore leg. He was ready to beat his son with a club: “Now I won’t sleep all night!” But, to his surprise, his leg soon stopped aching and he slept well for the first time. He took several flasks of water with him to

Kyiv. One day a minibus arrived, a whole company of young people, and with them a boy with clubs, maybe he had been to Chechnya. He walked to the source on his clubs, and from there he walks on his own and carries the clubs in his hands, almost without leaning on them. His friends were surprised: “Are you going by yourself?!” He came to his senses and raised these clubs up with joy.

I witnessed how one gypsy was healed. He was paralyzed for seven years. He was carried to the source on a stretcher, and he walked back on his own. A friend of mine's son fell ill with AIDS. Our father confessed him and gave him communion in the hospital, blessed him to take a dip in our spring, go and live in a monastery, and receive communion there. And he was healed. People still come here to take a dip.

One gynecologist told me that she had to give a fatal diagnosis to many women. And suddenly she herself fell ill with cancer. And then her patient, who was not going to be alive for long, came in for a check-up, she was healthy, and told her: “When you wrote me off, I don’t know how I ended up in the Church of the Intercession. I’m standing and crying. An old woman comes up to me and says: “ Bathe every Saturday in the spring in the village of Tashla." Maybe it’s the Mother of God Herself. That’s what I did, I went here for six months and was healed.” Now this gynecologist has been going to the source for two years and sends all her patients here.

My friend’s daughter came from Kazakhstan to visit her mother in Togliatti. They went to Tashla, and she said: “Mom, I saw this source when I was twenty years old, in a dream. This is not an ordinary source. It’s like I’m drowning in a swamp, and suddenly water pours from the sky. The Lord gave me some water drink - and I’m no longer in the mud, and I see this font. I took a swim - and the mud completely disappeared from me.” She bathed in the spring five times during the day she was here, and her severe hemorrhoids went away without surgery. Now in Kazakhstan he is collecting money to move here to live.

Servant of God Tatiana from the village of Timofeevka, Stavropol district, Samara region, said:

By the grace of God, I was able to see and hear about the miracles that were performed at the holy spring. More than once I visited the spring of the Queen of Heaven. I saw a gypsy healed here. He was brought on a stretcher and dipped in holy water three times. They came more than once, I can’t say from what time, but the patient began to walk. And constantly two gypsy women came to the source and tearfully thanked the Queen of Heaven for the healing. And the gypsy camp was located nearby, they themselves told me about the healing of their relatives.

I had the opportunity to meet pilgrims from everywhere here: from the North, from Murmansk, from Bulgaria. I myself experienced the effect of holy water: my osteochondrosis, heel spurs, the consequences of a microinfarction and other diseases completely disappeared. The Queen of Heaven soon comes to the rescue, having heard our request. And those who come with faith find healing here from physical and mental ailments.

Priest Igor Baranetsky and Tatyana Baranetskaya from the village of Lunacharsky say:

After suffering from a sore throat, our seven-year-old son developed a serious complication - rheumatoid arthritis. Knee joints he was red and swollen, it was especially difficult for him to go to school in the morning, he walked limping and enduring severe pain. Treatment at home was unsuccessful, the disease developed, moving to the elbow joints. I had to go to the hospital.

One day we came home from coming home. Our Denis was lying in bed, when he saw us, he tried to get up, but his legs severe pain gave way and he fell to the floor. One could imagine our condition. It was impossible to look at the child’s suffering without tears. Father Igor decided to go the next day to the village of Tashlu, to the miraculous spring of the Mother of God “Deliverer from Troubles” and tearfully ask the Queen of Heaven for the healing of his son.

The doctors were categorically against it, because cold water inadmissible for joint disease. But with firm hope and ardent faith in the help and intercession of the Mother of God, on Sunday October 21, 2001, and this was precisely the day of the appearance of the miraculous icon in 1917, we arrived at the source. We fervently prayed and asked for the healing of the little sexton, because Denis served in the church from the age of four, participated in religious processions, and worked according to his strength.

After diving into the spring on the way back, Denis felt a heat, he was all on fire. Already at home the fever passed, the child went to bed. In the morning, out of habit, he carefully began to get out of bed, but there was no longer the usual pain! Then Denis jumped up, began to walk quickly and even jump, but nothing bothered him. The joints were painless. A miracle has happened! The Mother of God healed our son. A feeling of joy and gratitude overwhelmed us, and tears came to our eyes. We examined our son's legs - the joints acquired their usual shape, traces of deformation and inflammation disappeared.

During the prayer service to the Queen of Heaven, we gave thanks with tears of joy for the healing of our son.

Z.Polyakova

December 24, 1990 I came to the Tashlin church for the feast of the icon of the Mother of God “Deliverer from Troubles” with the hope of healing my serious illness (I suffered from bleeding hemorrhoids, I could neither walk nor sit from pain). I bathed in the holy spring with prayer and asked the Mother of God to help me with my weaknesses, and it was twenty degrees below zero that day. I didn't catch a cold, although there was ice in the bathhouse. And here's a miracle - I became healthy! I dug all summer, carried heavy weights, my intestines worked properly, without bleeding or pain.

But before that I had such a condition that it required the intervention of a surgeon...

At first, I was afraid to talk about the miraculous healing. I was afraid that the Mother of God would be offended that I would tell everyone about my miraculous healing, and I only told my loved ones about it. But later in a dream I saw the Trinity Church of Tashly, where I was forbidden to enter. But a Woman came out of the temple, simply dressed, and said: “Do not forbid her to enter, let her pass, she is worthy...”.

And this year I came again, but did not ask for health, but thanked the Queen of Heaven for Her great benefits to me, an unworthy sinner.

Taisiya Fedorovna Golofeeva, Nizhny Tagil, Ekaterinburg region.

Since August 1993 My leg hurts, in common parlance it’s “erysipelas,” but here at the beginning of September 1995. At the dacha she was hit by a branch. The third outbreak of the disease began, and even with an abscess at the site of the bruise. The temperature ranged from 37.8 to 38.8. The children suggested going to Tashla to the holy spring Holy Mother of God.

The day was Sunday, sunny, warm. I bathed in the holy spring of the Most Holy Theotokos, trusting in the will of God. She went down to the source with difficulty, leaning on her son’s hand. And up the mountain, back, it was as if invisible wings were carrying me, and my soul felt so light and joyful, my chest was simply bursting with this joy. The fever went away and the wound began to heal. Isn't this a miracle?

I recently learned about this case from my close friends. This happened in 1985. As often happens, the wife was a believer, went to church, and prayed at home. And the husband was an unbeliever. And when his wife picked up the Gospel to read the obligatory chapter before going to bed, he usually reproached her. One day he destroyed all Orthodox books. And a month later, a misfortune happened to him - he was paralyzed (all Right side was amazed). The doctors could not help, time passed, but there was no improvement. Finally, his wife persuaded him to call the priest into the house and receive communion. After this, the husband said: “Now I can’t atone for my sins...”. The wife answered: “Let’s pray together!”

They decided to go to the Trinity-Sergius Lavra. There, in the churchyard, they approached the monk. He talked with her husband for a long time, standing aside, and the wife noticed excitement in her husband’s eyes. It turned out that the monk predicted his recovery at the next meeting. After some time, the husband ended up in Samara with his mother and there he heard about the Tashlinsky spring. He didn't sleep all night. And in the morning, together with my mother, I reached Tashla. After the service and prayer service for water, the mother went to get water, and the son remained sitting on the bench. And then the very thing that he had been waiting for every day and hour happened! He saw the monk, the same one! The man jumped up and, overcoming the pain, took two steps towards him. “It’s okay, brother, everything will be fine,” the monk told him with a kind smile.

The mother soon came with holy water, but did not meet that monk on the way. He disappeared. Less than two weeks had passed since that meeting, when the man became healthy and returned to Moscow.

I.Sh., Samara

My son was healed of enuresis after a trip to Tashla to the holy spring and to the miraculous icon “Deliverer from Troubles.” God bless you all!

Servant of God Zinaida, Samara

I want to tell you about the miracles that happened to me, a sinner.

She suffered greatly from eczema, she could not hold a spoon in her hands, she went to a psychic for treatment and did everything she could to get better, but she did not recover.

And the time came when I understood what the Lord wants. I began to pray in the morning, afternoon and evening, and took communion. And then my mother came and said that she had bought tickets to Tashla for the holy spring. And off we went. Mom with younger children and me, two months pregnant with a child and husband. We arrived at Trinity Church and held a prayer service. Let's go to the holy spring. It was December, the clouds in the sky were leaden. One woman said: “What sinners we are, the Lord does not want to show us his miracles.” When we plunged into the spring and there were ten of us left around it, the Lord showed His mercy: the clouds above the spring parted and the sun appeared.

When we arrived home, I didn’t find a single abscess on my body, a week later the abscess came out again, but I washed it with holy Tashlin water, and it disappeared.

Since then, Tashla has become for us a place where our souls always strive.

Pilgrimages

27 March 11 Yulia Kulakova

My Tashla

The village of Tashla, Samara province. In books of recent years they write that this name comes from the Turkic “tash” - stone or “tashl” - rocky. And in that brochure that I picked up many years ago, it was written that “tashla” in Chuvash means “have fun.” It was spring, the sun was beginning to warm up, children were rushing around their favorite temple, breaking the last pieces of ice with their small boots, and Tashla, about which so many wonderful things had been read and heard, that year felt like part of this spring, cheerful and joyful.

From Samara to Tashla the road is not close. So, having been blessed by our spiritual father, we boarded a battered little bus, suburban villages and dachas floated past through the windows, Tsarevshchina with its Nativity Church and the holy spring that had survived the hard times was left behind, mast pine trees flashed by, and we had to give way to a line of busy cars , hurrying to Tolyatti, and the bus kept driving and driving until, finally, the trees parted; and we - our hearts sank - recognized in the beautiful temple, shining with heavenly blue, the very church in honor of the Holy Trinity, where the shrine is located.

According to eyewitnesses, when Saint John of Kronstadt visited Samara, the Samara people complained: there is no such shrine in the diocese that would have national veneration. The holy father prayed in silence and exclaimed: “There will be such a shrine.”

Icon of the Mother of God "Deliverer from Troubles", p. Tashla

The predicted shrine was found in the little-known village of Tashla. This village was formed in the 18th century. The villagers lived together, worked on the land, fished for a living, and fed the forest. By the end of the 18th century, the temple was rebuilt. There was no monastery in these parts, but there were many girls and widows who lived in the world like monks. They prayed, worked, fed themselves by alms or selling their handicrafts. They were called cell attendants.

On October 21, 1917, cell attendant Ekaterina Chugunova had a wonderful dream. The Mother of God herself appeared to her and indicated the place where Catherine should find the miraculous icon. Together with her friends Feodosia Atyaksheva and Paraskeva Gavrilenkova, Ekaterina went outside the village. On the way, she clearly saw two angels carrying an icon. The other cell attendants did not see this, but they continued their journey and, having reached it, began to dig in the indicated place. People began to flock to the ravine; some residents, having learned about what had happened, went to the neighboring village to get a priest (the Tashlin priest was away in Samara). Soon Paraskeva Gavrilenkova removed a small icon of the Mother of God from the ground. At the same moment, water gushed out of the ground: a source opened. The priest, who had arrived by this time, carefully took the icon to the temple.

Any miracle can raise doubts - this was the case with the discovery of the “Deliverer from Troubles” icon. The next day the icon disappeared from the temple. They found her floating on the surface of a wonderful spring. Those who doubted tenderly repented, and the icon was found a second time - again by the widow Paraskeva.

Rumors of miracles spread throughout the province. Believers came to venerate the shrine and touch the source of the Mother of God from everywhere. Then countless healings began. The paralyzed walked away from the shrine with their own feet, and those suffering from ulcers with their cleansed feet. It is no wonder that the Soviet government declared war on the shrine. The villagers managed to hide the icon. But the new government ordered the source to be covered with earth and manure. But they passed Soviet years, and believers were able to clear the source and return the holy image to the renovated temple, which had served as a granary for so many years.

And again a stream of pilgrims flowed to the icon, and before the mercy of the Mother of God, human ailments again began to recede - paralysis and cancer, HIV and hepatitis, drug addiction and alcoholism. Among the pilgrims who come to be healed or to tearfully thank the Mother of God for the miracle of healing that has already happened are people of different nationalities and even other faiths. In the queue at the three “fonts” you can meet people who came from both Germany and Magadan. The water in the source is cold, no, no, yes, the squeals of children will be heard from the wooden bathhouse, and the sparrows that have flown to the water will chirp in puzzlement on the branches.

I admit honestly: going on pilgrimage trips to the shrine was not very easy for me. I wanted to slowly climb the long stairs of the temple, stand and pray in its centuries-old silence, and then, bowing to the ground in front of a small icon, hung with gifts from the healed, tell the Queen of Heaven my small thanks and a huge list of requests. With prayer, as the nuns who now live at the temple advised, go to the source. Don’t be distracted by the shouts of the group leader: “Okay, faster, girls, let’s run!” Where are the other two? How is it that they ran for bread?” Although the bread in Tashla, I must say, is especially fragrant and tasty. It was a dream to go to the shrine just as a family.

Therefore, as soon as our family got our own car (Moskvich-412), there were no questions about the route of the first serious trip. “Well, where?” - asked the husband. And he himself answered: “To Tashla.” The day turned out to be difficult, the new owner of the car was stopped either by sudden difficulties at work, or by traffic jams, or by traffic police; he managed to leave Samara only at eight o’clock.

And from Tashly, joyful and tired, we returned at midnight, my infant son, smacking his lips, slept on my lap. We went “just like that” - to bow to the Mother of God, press our lips to the cold glass of the icon case, and then, frightened, forcing ourselves to forget about vegetative-vascular dystonia, feel how it was converging above our heads ice water, and after the third time fly out of the source like a bullet. On the way, we read an akathist, leafed through brochures about miracles and did not know that a miracle would soon appear to us.

For some time now I have been ill with a strange disease. Once every few months I was wracked with terrible, terrible, tearing pain. Then she let go, but just the memory of such an attack could make her lose consciousness. We contacted the doctors. It turned out to be a “benign growth.” Too small to operate, too big to heal. The attacks became weaker - but more frequent.

For some reason they didn’t think about a miracle. It’s just that when it got warmer - and we didn’t drive in the cold, mindful of the notorious dystonia, we waited for the “plus ten” mark - in Once again Let's go to our beloved Tashla. We prayed. We bought bread with a crispy crust for the baby. And we went to the source.

I went down into the font carefully: what about the seizure? Oh, how cold it is, Mother of God, help! My hands were cramped, I couldn’t cross myself, I’d rather dive into the water - one, two, three! And she jumped out of the water.

And I realized that the tumor was gone.

The next day an ultrasound was scheduled. I walked boldly, although I didn’t know how I would explain to the doctors what they would see. “So, are you the one with the tumor?” - "Yes I!" The doctor looks at the screen in surprise: “Where was she?”

I couldn’t wait to leave the hospital, rush to “Moskvichonka”, where my husband and son were waiting for me, and wave the “healthy” certificate in front of them. And, of course, offer to go to Tashla. Where we will go again many times. And alone, and with friends, and at plus ten, and at plus thirty. And once, “in two cars,” we went there for my name day. Rainbows accompanied us all the way, and at some point we realized that we were entering a “gate” of several rainbows standing right above the highway. We stopped, ran out of the cars into the light rain and looked at the sky for a long time.

I look at the thermometer. I wish real spring had already arrived! So it would be plus ten.

Message from Feodosia Davidovna Atyaksheva, a native of the village of Musorki, Stavropol district, Kuibyshev region, in 1885, about the appearance of the icon of the Mother of God, which took place in 1917 on Sunday October 8 (old style) in the village of Tashla.

“I, Atyaksheva Feodosia Davidovna, lived in the village. There were trash cans in a separate house, like in a cell, and the girl Ekaterina Nikanorovna Chugunova, a native of the village of Tashla, lived with me, 1885.

I, Theodosia, before the Cross and the Gospel, assure how this phenomenon happened: on the morning of October 21 (new style), when we woke up, Catherine told me that she would go to mass at the church in the village. Tashla and left, and I decided to go to my temple. Trash cans. When I returned from church, Catherine came and said: “There was no service in the church in Tashla, because the priest left for Samara and did not return; but here's what I have to tell you. Tonight the Mother of God appeared to me in a dream for the third time and said sternly that if I do not fulfill Her orders, I will be punished. Each time, appearing to me in a dream, She said that I should dig Her icon out of the ground in the indicated place. This morning, when I walked to the village of Tashla, over the ravine I saw two angels carrying an icon of the Mother of God, illuminated by a bright radiance, and when they sank to the bottom of the ravine, this vision disappeared, and I fainted. When I woke up, I went to my relatives and told them about all this, and they told me that some people heard church singing there, in the ravine. I ask you, Fenya, let’s go together to that place now, maybe you’ll see what I saw.” We went together to Tashla, and when we approached this ravine, Catherine cried out: “Look, look, here again the angels are carrying the icon in radiance, heading to the same place, and again everything has disappeared...”. After these words, Catherine fell unconscious.

I was very scared, not knowing what to do with her, since the place was deserted and there was no one to be seen. Thank God it didn't last long. Ekaterina woke up and asked me if I saw anything, but I didn’t see anything. We went to Gavrilenkova Paraskeva, who lived near the ravine, and begged her to go with us to the ravine. Pasha took the cleaver and we went. When we approached the ravine, Catherine shouted again: “Look, look, here again the angels are carrying the icon and disappearing in the same place,” and she herself fainted again.

Having woken up, Catherine went to the place where she had seen the vision disappear three times and showed where to dig. Pasha began to dig around this place with a mower, and the boy Petya, who was standing here, was sent to fetch a shovel. Soon Petya came along with his father Zakhary Krivoichenkov, who began to dig with a shovel, but dug a little and said: “Well, what did she come up with, there’s no point in digging here.”

As soon as Zachary had time to utter these words, he was immediately thrown to the side, as if by the wind, and lay in a faint for some time, and when he woke up, he took a shovel and unquestioningly continued to dig in the indicated place. Paraskeva pierced this hole with a hammer from time to time. And so, when the hole was a yard deep, Paraskeva felt something hard with her pick, she began to tear up the earth with her hands and took out from the ground a small format icon of the Mother of God, which lay face up. As soon as Paraskeva took the icon out of the ground, a spring of water appeared in that place. By this time a lot of people had already gathered, and Catherine lay in a relaxed state, and she was sent to her sister.

They decided to send a priest to the village of Musorka to transfer the revealed icon to the temple of the village of Tashla.

The priest Father Vasily Krylov came from Musorka. He took the icon and carried it to the temple.

When approaching the temple to meet the icons, they came out with banners and icons while the bells were ringing. From the crowd we could hear the cries of the well-known sick Anna Torlova (a native of the village of Tashla), who shouted: “... A small icon is coming, coming and will drive us out...”. This woman was healed, but she had been sick for 32 years. The icon was brought into the temple, placed under glass along with the icon of the Holy Trinity and placed on a lectern in the middle of the temple.

Priest Fr. Vasily Krylov immediately served a prayer service, and the temple was open all night for access to the icon. At this time there was an incident: one Tashlin woman did not believe the appearance of the icon and began to shout: “This is all fiction...”. After her words, she ran out of the temple, jumped off the high porch, jumped over the fence and ran home, and after that she fell ill.

On Monday, October 22 (new style) I arrived from the village. Garbage priest Fr. Alexey Smolensky. He served the Liturgy and prayer service in the church, and in the evening his priest, Fr. Dimitry Mitekin. He saw that there were a lot of people in the church, and he knew that the icon of the Mother of God “Deliverer from Troubles” had appeared, and he served the all-night vigil. On Tuesday, October 23, the Liturgy was served, and after the Liturgy they went procession of the cross with the icon “Deliverer from Troubles” to the place of appearance and a prayer service was served there.

Many healings were also observed during this time. The rumor about the appearance of the miraculous icon spread very quickly throughout the surrounding areas, and entire crowds constantly went to venerate the icon. A well and a chapel were equipped at the source, where people often left the temple to serve prayers.

The well was deepened and cleaned, and in the dry years of 1920-1922. he was almost the only one supplying water to the village. From the moment the icon appeared, all this time was accompanied by many miraculous healings of the sick; but despite this, in the rector of the Church of the Holy Trinity, priest Fr. Dimitri Mitekina always had some kind of doubt, lack of faith in the appearance of the icon.

And then a miracle happened: on Saturday, December 23 (new style), an all-night vigil was served in the Church of the Holy Trinity, during which the icon “Deliverer from Troubles” was in the church, and on the morning of December 24, on Sunday, they discovered that the icon was not in the church. The icon disappeared from the locked temple.

At the same time, the church watchman Efim Kulikov informed the priest about. Demetrius, that when he went to the temple in the morning, he saw, as it were, lightning flashing from the temple towards the source.

After the Liturgy, we went in procession to the source and served a prayer service there, but the icon was nowhere to be found. On the same day, December 24, I, Feodosia Atyaksheva, heard a rumor about the disappearance of the icon, and as soon as I came from the church, I went to the village of Tagila. When I met with Ekaterina, she tearfully told me about the disappearance and begged me to immediately go with her to the source. As soon as we saw the chapel, Catherine joyfully exclaimed: “Look, look, the icon is shining above the chapel.” We returned to the village, came to the head of the temple, Ivan Efremovich, who had the key to the chapel, he called some more old people, and we went to the source. When they opened the chapel and the well was being made, we saw a vision: the ice in the well had melted a little, and in that place the icon of the Mother of God was floating face up. We were all overcome with great joy, and one of those present ran after Father Fr. Dimitri. When Fr. Demetrius arrived, he happily scooped the icon from the well with a bucket, took it in his hands, raised it in front of him and said that they should immediately go to the temple and go to the source with banners and icons, and he himself stood in the same position with the icon until he arrived procession and prayed.

To the sound of the bells they returned to the temple with the icon.

Father Dimitry Mitekin served right there thanksgiving prayer in front of the icon of the Mother of God “Deliverer from Troubles”, and he himself tearfully prayed and repented that he took this disappearance of the icon personally for his guilt, for his doubt and lack of faith shown towards this appearance of the icon of the Mother of God “Deliverer from Troubles”.

The icon was again installed in the Church of the Holy Trinity in the village of Tashla, and again there was a stream of prayer books with different places, to venerate the icon “Deliverer from Troubles,” and many who flowed with faith to Her received various healings.”

Signature (Atyaksheva)

All of the above about the appearance of the miraculous icon of the Mother of God “Deliverer from troubles” in the village of Tashla is confirmed and testified, assuring before the Cross and the Gospel, by the mother of Father Vasily Krylov: Anisia Dimitrievna Krylova, born in 1876, who lived in the village of Musorki, Stavropol region from 1900 to 1920 G.

Signature (Krylova)

And Andrina Evdokia Romanovna, born in 1896, a native and resident of the village of Tashla.

Signature (Andrina)

I certify the signatures of these persons

John, Bishop of Kuibyshev and Syzran, 1981

We arrived in Tashla on the eve of Easter, May 27. For a month now, the Samara land has been sweltering from unusual heat for spring. But on this day they promised rain and thunderstorms. By evening, the sky darkened, lightning flashed in the direction of Togliatti, thunder rumbled, and it began to rain. There was also rain in Samara. However, there was no rain in Tashla. Is it really possible that not a drop of heavenly moisture will spill here?

In the evening, the rector of the Holy Trinity Church, Archpriest Nikolai Vinokurov, sat on a bench in patio in a simple gray cassock, deep in reading some small book. About twenty minutes later he put it aside and called me over to him.

The book turned out to be a collection of prayers to the prophet Elijah. “Give rain to a thirsty land, O Savior!” - the priest sang, smiling, the words from the prayer service.

A nun approached us, holding in front of her an icon - a copy of the miraculous Tashlin icon of the Mother of God “Deliverer from Troubles.” And at that moment the first drops fell from the sky and it began to rain.

“Here is the Mother of God bringing the rain,” said Father Nikolai, reverently kissing the icon. “The Lord sends mercy, does not take it away from us yet, takes pity on us sinners.”

On May 18, 2014, Father Nikolai turned eighty years old. His age is beautiful. Father Nikolai has been serving in this holy place for forty-four years. It is difficult to imagine Tashla, the Holy Trinity Church, where the miraculous icon of the Mother of God “Deliverer from Troubles” is kept, without Father Nicholas, his quiet voice, kind, attentive eyes, his attention and love for all people.

The youngest in the family

- Father Nikolai, where are you from?

From the Ulyanovsk region. There are New Algashi and Old Algashi. I am a person from two Algash - New and Old. My father, Ivan, is from New Algashi, and my mother, Stefanida, is from Old. I was only four years old when my mother died due to illness. She breastfed me until I was four years old, until her death. I remember her. I was the youngest in the family. We had seven children in our family. The eldest is Agafya, the second is Elena, four babies died, but managed to be baptized, and the three of us remained.

It was hard during the war. I was in school then. My father was not taken to the war because of a shell shock at the mine: he was covered with earth, but they managed to pull him out. He was a carpenter and helped women whose husbands went to war. After the war in summer time the sisters went to the collective farm fields to weed. My father was already sick, he had taken ill, and after finishing school I took care of him. He wove bast shoes, felted felt boots, and did everything around the house.

Even after the war, our house burned down. My sister worked as a groom on a collective farm; she came home from work in the morning, scooped up the ashes from the Dutch oven and threw it out behind the house, but didn’t bury it deep. It was December, the wind blew, and the house burned down from a spark. In the summer we made large bricks from clay and straw and somehow erected a little house. Gradually I began to do carpentry, build houses for people, and slowly built a house for myself.

- How did you come to faith?

The parents were believers. And we, the children, grew up and began to go to church. She was far away, in Turunovo, fifty kilometers from us. St. Nicholas Church, it housed the revered icon of the Mother of God of Tikhvin. We walked, then we started riding bicycles. In winter, we went to church for Christmas and went to Epiphany to get water. Then they started a bus from one village. We walked thirty kilometers to get there, and then took a bus. Gradually I began to help in the temple, reading the Hours. A spiritual father was found for me - Hieromonk Seraphim, who later became an archimandrite.

Blessing of Lord Manuel

I met with Vladyka Manuil (Lemeshevsky), the future Metropolitan of Kuibyshevsky, in Cheboksary. I had already returned from the army, and we spent the first week of Lent in Turunovo. We were advised to go to Cheboksary, they said that a good Bishop serves there. My second cousin Arkady and I went to look at him at least once. We arrived in Cheboksary, came to the Church of God, they gave us the address of the Bishop, and we walked there. Vladyka sat us down next to him and talked. We confessed our sins to him. He told me: “You will be a priest.” We came to him several more times for conversation and confession. In the church after the Liturgy, the Bishop blessed the people, looked at me and said: “Go where the Lord has appointed you.” He invited us to visit. We came - he was talking with his acquaintance about the Antichrist. He blessed me with a prayer book, desk calendar and gave money for the journey. He said: “I will soon come to the Kuibyshev diocese and will serve there.” He predicted his arrival in Samara. When he came to our diocese - then it was Kuibyshev-Ulyanovsk, he served in the church in honor of the Burning Bush Icon of the Mother of God in Ulyanovsk. After the service, my sister and I stood on the porch. The Bishop stepped over the threshold, looked at me, blessed me with the words: “You will serve with me.” Here, in his diocese, I serve all the time.

Prediction

When we first arrived in Samara and came to the Intercession Cathedral, they sang “Our Father” there. We were met by an unfamiliar woman, simple in appearance, and told me: “They are waiting for you, they are waiting for you, they are waiting for you.” She met me three times. First, I was ordained a deacon, and a week later, at the Entry into the Church of the Most Holy Theotokos, Vladyka John (Snychev), the future Metropolitan of St. Petersburg, ordained me a priest. This was in 1969. After the service they gave me a cross to give to the people. This woman came up to me again, looked at the “Last Supper” and said to me: “Everything will be given to you, everything will be given from God.” I think it was the Mother of God.

After my ordination, Vladika John sent me here to Tashla.

There were, of course, temptations. During the first few years, some people didn’t like me and wanted to remove me. And then blessed Alexander often came to our church. He also looked at the icon of the Last Supper and said to me: “Nicholas, pray, pray!” I intensified my prayer and everything went away. The first time I served in Tashla was on Christmas Day in 1970. Most of the people who participated in that first service of mine, we have already sung the funeral service. I just live a long time.

Tashla - “Samara Diveevo”

It’s amazing how everything here has been transformed through the efforts of Father Nikolai and his assistants, even over the last ten years, when the priest was already over seventy. Two-story brick buildings grew up - a nursing building, a building with a refectory and kitchen below, and a hotel on the second floor. Two years ago, on the eastern side of the temple, a three-story wooden mansion with a green roof was built - a Sunday school building with excellent conditions for classes, with a prayer room. Active, creative teachers who love children have gathered here. The building of the former collective farm administration was purchased for Last year converted into a large comfortable hotel for pilgrims. The collective farm no longer exists, and Soviet power, and the temple still stands as it stood. And the source that they tried to destroy so many times is alive.

Paths are laid everywhere, flowers are planted, splendor, beauty, order. There are more than twenty sisters in the monastic community. Tashla was transformed, just as it happened in the last two decades with Diveevo according to the prediction of Father Seraphim. For the Samara region, Tashla probably has the same significance as Diveevo for the whole of Russia.

Nun Seraphima, who is buried in the Tashlin cemetery, said that in recent times Tashla will become famous. Father Nikolai, tell us how this holy place was transformed.

When I arrived here, I saw that the temple was old, the fences were damaged, everything was destroyed. I started working from the first day. My father's talent as a carpenter seemed to be passed on to me. I had to renovate the temple myself, restore the bell tower, and make a roof. They made an iron fence and built a bathhouse. They filled up the ravine near the temple, brought in black soil, leveled it, and planted a garden. The fence was raised from bricks. Lately we've had cows. The sisters work, they feed pilgrims and themselves, they have something to do.

- Were there any difficulties?

There were a lot of challenges in the beginning. In 1971, foot and mouth disease appeared in the region, and many livestock died. People were forbidden to venerate the icons; they were covered with black cloth. It was not allowed to touch the spoon during Communion. The authorities did not stop monitoring the believers. The sanitary and epidemiological station stated that people drink water from the source, they can become infected and the disease will spread. They told me: “We need to tell the people not to go to the spring and drink the water.” I replied: “I won’t do that. I drink this water myself and don’t get sick. How can I prohibit others? And they left me behind. The source was also completely destroyed. But people came, took buckets of water and doused themselves in the bushes.

The source was filled with earth by a tractor during the hard times of the Soviet Union, but another one emerged in a different place. And the barn nearby was specially built to pollute the spring. In the 90s we were allowed to improve the source. We cleaned it out and installed containers for the wells. They paved asphalt to the holy spring, made baths and dousing. Now in our baths water flows from two sources.

From then on, our source began to flourish. People began to flow in more. The Mother of God helps those who pray and bathe with faith. Then people send us Thanksgiving letters about healings.

Metropolitan Sergius of Samara and Syzran blessed us to build a small wooden church at the source in honor of the icon of the Mother of God “Deliverer from Troubles.” Temple in the village of Mus O Vladyka Sergius instructed us to improve the river, we have a lot of money going there. And the temple in Eremkino has almost been built - Vladyka also instructed us to work on this temple. The Mother of God arranges all this.

We now have many clergy. For more than thirty years I served alone without a deacon, then Vladyka sent Father Evgeniy Goloborodko here, later Father Dionisy Astapenko, then the deacon Father Alexander Kudryavtsev. The more the church life develops, the more spiritual strength is required. There are services in two churches, and baptisms take place on Saturdays. Adults are baptized in the spring by complete immersion, small children - in the temple.

“With Christ there is always eternal joy!”

Father Nikolai, you heard Vladyka Manuel talking to someone about the Antichrist. Orthodox Christians always reflect on this disturbing topic. Nowadays, many believers refuse TINs, universal electronic cards, and consent to the processing of personal data. Now they are going to introduce an electronic passport in our country. Some people also want to give it up.

We'll have to refuse, of course. Electronic passports will not lead to anything good. All this is stated in the Revelation of John the Theologian. It is already clear that the end times are coming.

And yet, despite the difficulties, there is always eternal joy with Christ! If you follow Christ, you will suffer a little, but there will be eternal joy, but otherwise you can end up in eternal destruction, in terrible eternal fire.

We must turn to the Mother of God: “Rejoice, you who save us, the needy Deliverer, from grief, misfortune and destruction.” She will help. And to the Lord: “Lord, have mercy, Lord, save, help me, God, to carry my cross.” The main thing is meekness, humility, love for one's neighbor, obedience. Let us live according to God's commandments, observing fasts, honoring God's holidays When visiting the temple of God, doing good deeds, always give thanks for everything. And by the Providence of God, sorrows and illnesses are sent, they bring us closer to God.

- Do you yourself feel the help of the saints, the Mother of God?

But of course! The Mother of God helps us a lot. Many people thank her. Childless people come to me with their grief, I tell them: “How do you live? We must pray to God, morning and evening prayers read, observe Wednesday and Friday, visit the temple of God. You have to knock on the door of God’s mercy with prayer, nothing is given that easily. Let's pray. Venerate the icon of the Mother of God. We will anoint you with holy oil. Come swim in the spring, the Mother of God will not refuse.” Many then come: “Here, father, the Mother of God helped.” Some spouses bring a child - show me.

And he laughed joyfully.

Nikolai Ugodnik helped

- Father Nikolai, your joy is the joy of your children. Have you personally received wonderful help?

The year before last I got sick. And just then we were doing good deeds in Promzino, Ulyanovsk region. There Nicholas the Wonderworker appeared in the old days. Previously, there was a chapel in his honor (now it has also been restored), and a large icon of him hung. In our village there lived an old believer, grandfather Artemy, after the service in the temple we gathered with him, and he told us about the miracles of God. He told how one day his parents took him with them to Promzino to see the source of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker: “We came, the people were praying, kissing the icon. Nikolai Ugodnik stands on it in full height, wearing boots. And I doubtfully approached to venerate the icon, and suddenly the saint hit me on the lip with his boot. From that moment I became a believer." We erected a marble monument in Promzino, where St. Nicholas the Wonderworker is depicted in full height, it turned out great. And then I was overcome by illness; I had to have a serious operation on my kidneys. We went to the hospital in Tolyatti, I went into the room, and there was a man standing there with a beard, dressed simply. "What's wrong with you?" - asks. - “I got sick, I came to get treatment.” - “We’ll cure, we’ll cure.” I’m surprised he’s not a doctor, I ask: “What’s your name?” - “Nikolai.” They performed an operation on me, it went well, and to this day everything is fine. Nicholas the Wonderworker came to the rescue because we honored him in Promzino. He worked with doctors and helped with prayer. This is my patron. There is always help, especially when we build a church and help people. We built a temple in my homeland.

“My help comes from the Lord, who created heaven and earth,” Father Nikolai sang sonorously.

This help is always with us. “Thank God for everything,” Father Nikolai continues the interrupted story. - There is no need to praise me. You just need to praise God and the Mother of God. The Protection of the Mother of God is always over all of us. Grace, it is inexhaustible. When we sin and lose patience, we become impoverished. But we must not lose hope and move forward.

"He loves everyone..."

When I asked to say a few words about Father Nikolai, people’s faces immediately brightened in response.

It’s easy to live next to the priest,” he says nun Eliconidas. - We feel his protection, prayer for us and the fact that he takes on the burden of our worries. We are calm when he is next to us; with him there are no unsolvable situations for us. Many people tell us: “Oh, how happy you are!” We are truly happy because we live here by God's grace. Father lays down his soul for everyone. He loves everyone. We do not know such people who have such a strong love for each person. He prays for everyone.

Archpriest Evgeny Goloborodko: “The peculiarity of Father Nikolai is that he teaches by example. It is most important. We are very grateful to God for this. You can find many who speak correctly, but only a few who teach through their lives.”

Father Nikolai is an example for us, showing with his life how to follow spiritual path- said the Sunday school director Natalia Ivanovna Mikhailova. “You always rely on his prayers.” He is very caring and attentive to children.

Thanks to the priest, we are now here,” she said. Tatiana Shakulina. - We lived in Ukraine for eight years, I prayed all the time to move here, to our Russia. I am Russian, my husband is Ukrainian. At first he didn’t agree to anything, they pulled him here thanks to prayers. Father started praying for us two years ago - and that’s it, we’re already here, my husband helps at the altar, I work in the church shop. First we moved to Togliatti, and then we sold our apartment there and bought a house here. Everything is fine with us now. Father helps people who are already desperate. The day before yesterday a man came up to confession, smelling of fumes, and the priest hugged him, pressed him to himself, and felt sorry for him. He has a very kind attitude even towards the last sinner. He loves everyone, he feels sorry for everyone.

Georgy Martynenko, a laborer at the church: “People like Father Nikolai are very rare. He takes care of everyone, pays attention to everyone. I don't know of a case where he swore. He accepts everyone and listens to everyone. He will think, pray, and then tell you what to do. People come to him for advice from many places. Father, we’ll have to look for more of them.”

Nun Leonilla: “Father Nikolai is one of those priests who lay down their souls for the sheep. He is an example, and this is the most important thing, because people often lack an example in life. We all need to pray for him very much, because the Lord usually gives elders health for many years when their spiritual children pray for them. When I came to faith at one time, I was looking for a priest with whom I could confess in detail. When I arrived in Tashla and saw Father Nikolai, my first thought was: “This is the father, this is both the mother and the father, who will listen to everything, understand and help.” Everyone feels this very much. Of course, the Lord gave him many gifts from God for his patience and humility. In the most difficult moments of my life, I turned to Father Nikolai. And after that there is always such lightness, you immediately feel enormous heavenly help. The prayers of the elderly are very powerful, and the Lord helps a lot through their prayers. We need to cherish the blessings of the priest and try to fulfill them. I am very grateful to God that I came to the priest in such a holy place, where the icon was revealed from heaven and such great help comes to people, you can serve the Mother of God and the Lord. The Lord gave the priest a companion - the wonderful Mother Lydia, who is also an example. She helps the priest in everything; it would be difficult for him to bear such a cross alone. I would like to wish many and prosperous years to both of them, a low bow to the ground, and that they come to high spiritual abodes to the Lord and, if possible, bring us with them.

Father Nikolai, today, when such things happen tragic events in Ukraine, what should we, the Orthodox, do?

Pray! We have weapons - sign of the cross and prayer. Let's pray. The devil wants to destroy everyone, but the Lord does not allow it. The prayer of the Mother of God, church prayer protect.

The Mother of God has always helped Russia. Hope is in God, in the Mother of God. Don’t lose your peaceful spirit, and there will always be joy. And a peaceful spirit can only be achieved through prayer, patience, and humility. When everything is calm inside, there is a peaceful spirit, you want to love, work, help, respect, you want to pray. Glory to God for everything: both for sorrow and for joy!

For people who are disappointed in life, the best salvation is faith; only faith makes them believe in themselves. Therefore, the number of people who believe in blessed powers is growing every day. For such people, it is a real dream to visit places where religious miracles occur. One of such places is the holy spring Tashla in the Samara region.

What happens in the holy spring in the village of Tashla, Samara region

In this village, the main center of spirituality is the Holy Trinity Church. As for its work schedule, the scheme is approximately as follows:

1. In the morning, or rather at eight o’clock, Father Nikolai enters the temple.
2. In turn, the priest blesses everyone present, and then goes to the altar.
3. The reading of prayers begins, then the priest censes the church.
4. The service lasts until two o'clock in the afternoon.

At the end of the service, the pilgrims do not disperse; the nun gives each one a little antidor. As for the evening service, it begins in the evening at five o'clock and lasts until eleven o'clock. And in the most important Religious holidays A huge number of people gather in this place.

The source in Tashla became famous throughout the world for its facts miraculous healing due to the face of the miraculous icon, as well as the font of healing water. Believers who come to this holy place from all over the country literally get rid of not only spiritual, but also physical ailments in just a few days. In the well where the miraculous water is located, a dome is reflected, which is decorated with eight-pointed stars. And in front of the icon of the Mother of God, a candle burns. People who swim there always say to each other, “With the shrine.”

There is a special well at the source where pilgrims can get living water. Separate women's and men's baths were built on the territory. According to people who plunged into the water, it is quite cold, and some say that it is icy. But as soon as you step onto land, you immediately feel a surge of strength and energy. By the way, these sensations do not leave a person for several hours after immersion. As practice shows, pilgrims leave only positive reviews about the holy spring of Tashla in the Samara region.

Watch a video about the holy spring in the village of Tashla.

It is very convenient for visitors to have parking in front of the entrance. And at the entrance sits a woman with a special box for alms from pilgrims. Regarding the opening hours, this place can be visited any day of the week. The doors to the source open from morning until night.

An important day is October 21, because on this day the appearance of the holy icon of the Mother of God took place, which can be seen in the local church. As a rule, when the weather is good outside, local clergy go in procession from the temple itself to the source. And upon arrival at the place, the priest conducts a service, and then in the same religious procession everyone goes back to the walls of the temple.

For parishioners there are several simple rules for visiting this place:

• before bathing in a healing spring, you need to receive a blessing;
• It is advisable for people to confess and, of course, receive communion;
• collect healing water in specially designated places;
• Be sure to take a container for holy water with you.

It is extremely important to behave with dignity on the territory - not to shout or behave inappropriately. By the way, there is an Orthodox refectory on the territory of the monastery, and those who wish can have a tasty snack there. There are also holiday houses and gazebos on the territory where you can relax and eat.

An interesting fact regarding behavior on the territory. Locals say that once many pilgrims originally from Samara came to the source, and there were so many people that it was impossible to approach the water. After a while, people began to swear and shout among themselves, and as soon as the scandal became very loud, literally in an instant the water simply disappeared. Only after some time, when everything became quiet, the miraculous water returned again. That is why in such a sacred place one should behave appropriately and thoughts should only be pure.

History of the source

First of all, it must be said that the history of this place began in the early autumn of 1917. So, a resident of this power saw the Mother of God several times in a dream, and at one moment she saw in reality two angels who were carrying an icon to a certain place. Literally a few hours later, in the same place, residents dug up and found the icon “Deliverer from all troubles.”

When the miraculous icon was raised, a spring was formed, the water in which had healing properties. It was this mine that made the village famous throughout Russia and even beyond its borders. The spring was always looked after, cleaned and, if necessary, construction works. And during the drought in the twenties, this spring was the only source of water in the entire area. Regarding the icon, it was left in the Tashlinsky temple.

There were situations when people talked about how they dreamed of this source, and it was as if they had come here at someone’s call to get rid of illnesses. According to many pilgrims, if you plunge into this source, you can get rid of such problems as:

• diseases associated with musculoskeletal system;
• oncological diseases;
• heart diseases.

And if you additionally drink healing water, you can forget about all gastrointestinal diseases. People are allowed to collect and take water with them.

According to people who have been there, near the Holy Spring they see the Mother of God in full growth, and in her arms she holds the Infant Christ. People also say that a rainbow appears over the spring almost every day. Orthodox Christians call the water in a spring living. Believers come to him from all over the world and find healing for themselves. And local residents say that healing power The source is so great that even people who profess a completely different faith are healed here, so not only Orthodox people come here.

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