The miraculous Mother of God icon will be crowned in Hoshiv

17-08-2009

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On August 28, 2009, during the Dormition of the Holy Mother of God, on Yasna mountain in the village of Hoshiv, the coronation of Hoshiv's miraculous icon of the Mother of God will take place. Thousands of pilgrims over many centuries have prayed before this icon.

Previously, on July 1, 2009, Holy Father Benedict XVI blessed the golden crowns for Hoshiv's miraculous Mother of God icon during the general audience on Saint Peter's Square in the Vatican. A copy of Hoshiv's miraculous Mother of God icon was presented to the Pope as a gift from the from the abbot of the basilian monastery on Yasna mountain in Hoshiv, Fr. Damyan Kastran, OSBM.

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Background Information:

In the picturesque region of Prykarpattya, in the village Hoshiv, numerous pilgrims from different corners of Ukraine and the world come to pray to the Holy Mother of God. The faithful, not only Greek-Catholics, come to kneel at the feet of Maria and Her miraculous icon, at Yasna Hora, in order to ask the Celestial Mother to take care of us, Her children, and to plead for Her graces so that we can gain an understanding of the ultimate goal - eternal union with Her Son.

 

For additional information, please contact Basilian Fathers
on Yasna mountain, village Hoshiv:
Monastery of Transfiguration
of the Lord our Jesus Christ
Abbot: Fr. Damian (Kastran)
tel. (03-477) 30-532; 72-56-33
village Hoshiv, Dolyna district

77520 Ivano-Frankivs'k region.

 

in Kyiv:
Monastery of Saint Basil the Great
Abbot: Fr. Basil (Tuchapets')
tel./fax: (044) 486-44-08
tel.: (044) 486-14-69
Voznesenskyj Uzviz Str, 7,
04053 c. Kyiv

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