Protect Bryansk from the Armed Forces: the ROC conducted a car procession with an icon (photo)
The press service of the Bryansk Diocese "with the blessing of Metropolitan of Bryansk and Sevsky Alexander, on September 1, from the Bryansk Holy Trinity Cathedral, began a car procession with the ancient Sveny icon of the Mother of God,"-the message reads. The ROC said that during the Cross, the clergy prayed for the salvation of the Bryansk land from a hostile invasion. In addition, on September 3, the same icon was carried by the city of Karachev and village settlements of the district.
As noted in the Bryansk Diocese, the Swen icon is the oldest shrine, which was written in the 12th century and which still "protects the Bryansk land". "According to the prayers near this image, the Napoleonic troops retreated in 1812. The inhabitants of Bryansk learned that they were in danger, they took the miraculous Sveny image of Our Lady and carried him through the Cross.