This is a remarkable story from the Great Patriotic War!
The Icon of Our Lady of Kazan
In 1941, during World War II against Nazi Germany, the Virgin appeared to Metropolitan Ilya of the Antiochian Church, who prayed wholeheartedly for Russia. She instructed him to tell the Russians that they should carry the Icon of Our Lady [...]
This is something I read about in Antony Beeovor’s book Stalingrad, which really moved me…
The Stalingrad Madonna was drawn by a Wehrmacht Senior Medical Officer, Dr. Kurt Reuber, on the back of a map, to celebrate Christmas outside Stalingrad, 1942. In his last letter home, Reuber wrote:
“Christmas week has come and gone. It has been [...]
