Root Icon of the Mother of God "The Omen" will arrive in the Kursk Region

Kursk Root Icon of the Mother of God was found the September 21, 1295, near the Kursk. In order to avoid profanation of infidels icon was taken in 1920 from Russia to Serbia, and later in Germany and in 1957 in the United States. In this time of the Kursk icon is dedicated to her in the cathedral church of the Synod of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad (ROCOR) in New York. As a spokesman explained, the first time the miraculous icon has returned to the Kursk area, where was found the, 2 years ago. In 2009, about half a million pilgrims from different areas of Russia and Ukraine arrived in Kursk, in order to venerate the relic. To get to the icon, people stand in a queue of up to 20 hours. "Last year, because the property is svevedsti gone, the icon came to about 300 people. This year we expect approximately so because the number of pilgrims. Given the failures of the first year of presence of the icon, the administration of Kursk region Kursk diocese and to devise a suitable scheme of disposition of pilgrims to the icon, thanks any way people will be present in the queue a maximum of four hours "- said Chebanov. According to him, on Saturday, stick icon in the monastery Aboriginal desert, where the faithful will be able to worship the shrine in the cathedral church of Nativity of the Theotokos Monastery. On Sunday, the procession will be held with the icon of the wilderness to the Root of the cathedral church the Sign of Kursk, where the icon prostanet from September 25 to October 2. Pilgrims will be able to come to an icon around the clock. The Secretary of the Kursk diocese said, in fact this year in the Kursk will not be a tent camp to house the faithful from other cities, as necessary, in fact it does not. "Practice shows, in fact progressive pilgrims arrive by bus, worship the icon and go. Organization of outlets where people will be able to buy food, will give the city administration "- said Chebanov. According to the Regional Department of Ministry of Internal Affairs, during the holy presence in the region Kursk police will move to a stronger version of service, places the cluster group of believers is planned installation of stationary metal detectors. "The number of individual staff, ensuring law and order, will be increased. Information, either directly, it is considered blocked, but planned to actually control the order in a day will be about a thousand employees of internal affairs ", – said Head of Public Relations Department of Internal Affairs Sergei Ruzhitsky on Kursk.