diveyevo 5

The right chapel of the stone church... 

by a special miraculous command of God...

is dedicated to the name of the holy First Martyr and Archdeacon Stephen. 

Mother Alexandra was perplexed as to which saint to dedicate this chapel, and therefore one day she prayed all night in her cell to the Lord to indicate His will. 

Suddenly, a knock was heard in the small window, and behind it a voice said: 

“Let this throne be the first martyr, Archdeacon Stephen!” 

With trembling and joy, Alexander's mother rushed to the window to see who was talking to her, but there was no one and on the windowsill [vensterbank] she found, miraculously and invisibly from where, the image of the holy First Martyr Archdeacon Stephen,  painted on a simple, almost unhewn log stump [vrijwel ongehouwen plank].

After the construction of the temple...

Mother Alexandra traveled to the city of Kazan...

where she received the most faithful copy of the miraculous and revealed icon of the Kazan Mother of God, and to the city of Kyiv to ask for particles of holy relics for her church. These relics were placed in a silver and gilded cross. 

From Moscow, she brought a bell worth 76.5 pounds and the necessary utensils. The iconostasis in the Kazan Church was given from the old Sarov Cathedral by the builder Father Ephraim. It was green with gilding, but later the green paint was replaced by red.

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