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Icon of the Mother of God Weeping “Ilyin Chernigov”, Chernigov, Russia
Commemorated on April 29
In 1658, iconographer Gregory Dubensky painted an image of the Mother of God for the Monastery of St. Elijah and the Holy Trinity in northern Ukraine near the Russian border. From April 16-24, 1662, the icon shed tears, witnessed by most of the residents of Chernihiv. Not long afterwards, Tatars sacked the town. The monks of St. Elijah took refuge in a cave while the raiders broke into and looted the monastery. Like the monks, the weeping icon and her precious ornaments were untouched -- as if heaven had held the invaders back. Unfortunately, the monastery fared less well under the Russians. Catherine the Great closed it in 1786, and during the Soviet period the miracle-working icon disappeared. Restored in the 1970s, St. Elijah's Church is now a museum. The Orthodox Church honors the Elijah Mother of God on the day she first wept: April 16 Julian, April 29 in the modern calendar. (Picture of a 1700s copy of the Elijah Mother of God from ""Православная Икона России, Украины, Беларуси," Tretyakov State Gallery, www.tretyakovgallery.ru. Information from The Orthodox Church in America, www.oca.org; "Sacred Art Exhibition Catalog," Sacred Art Gallery, sacredartgallery.com; "St. Elijah church," Chernigiv Ancient, naiz3.ucoz.com/index/0-23; and other sources.) Source: http://www.wherewewalked.info/feasts/04-April/04-29.htm
History
The Ilyin-Chernigov Icon of the Mother of God was painted in the year 1658 by the iconographer Gregory Dubensky, (Gennadius in monasticism). Tears flowed from the icon for eight days in 1662, from April 16-24.
In this same year Tatars descended upon Chernigov and devastated it. At midnight they burst into the Trinity monastery, went into the church, overturned all the icons and grabbed all the utensils, but the wonderworking icon and its ornaments remained untouched.
An invisible power held back the impious from the holy icon. Previously, the Queen of Heaven had not permitted the enemy to enter the cave of St Anthony of the Caves, where the brethren of the monastery had hidden. The Tatars fled, as though terrified by a vision.
The miracle of the Mother of God and Her Chernigov Icon was described by St Demetrius of Rostov (October 28 and September 21) in his book, THE MOISTENED FLEECE [Runo Oroshennoe]. Later on, St John of Tobolsk (June 10) also wrote about the Chernigov Icon.
A wonderworking copy of the Chernigov Icon of the Mother of God, in the Gethsemane skete of the Trinity-Sergiev Lavra, was glorified in the year 1869 (September 1).