Pochaev

Pochaiv - a town of Kremenets district, Ternopil region, Ukraine. Located 25 km from the railway station Kremenets. Here is the second largest in the Ukraine Orthodox monastery - Pochaevskaya laurel, known since 13c .

The first data about the town date back to 1450g .

Pochaiv revered since ancient times. Under the 1527in the written sources mention the local fairs, to gather people in the Assumption of Our Lady. By 1557 the document states that these fairs are held from time immemorial. Pochaiv Laura has been known since the 13th century. Annals of recall about the first monks who came here in years 1240-1241 . To escape the Mongols .The first rooms of the monastery were the caves deep in the mountains. It was then, according to legend, the Virgin and appeared to monks in a fiery column of Pochayiv mountain, after which one of the rocks left her mark . In 1559 the estate of the landowner who lived nearby in Anna Goyskoy insistent request hostess stopped riding in Moscow, the Greek Metropolitan Neophyte .In gratitude for the hospitality he had left a deep Goyskoy ancient icon of the Mother of God , which was carrying with him .

After 30 years, the image has come a wonderful light. Born blind brother Philip Goyskoy , attached to the shrine , see.Then , gathering the Orthodox clergy and laity, Goyskaya with a procession and singing suffered icon to Pochaev , arranged in 1597 for the scattered there in the caves and forests of the monks at the monastery cenobitic above the Assumption Church and has provided the latter with all necessary.

At the Sophia of Kiev the monastery - the main shrine of the Orthodox in Ukraine.This is one of the most famous pilgrimage sites in Ukraine : the Feast of the Assumption ( Aug. 28) and St. Job (September 10) . To her shrines are reprint feet of the Virgin Mary with a source of healing water, and its miraculous icon of the relics of St Job.

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