Commemoration of the Forty Martyrs of Sebaste and the Icon of the Mother of God “Sign” Kurskoy-Korennoy

In this regard,, that during the First Week of Great Lent festive divine services are not performed, with the blessing of His Eminence Vladyka Herman, the day of commemoration of the Forty Martyrs of Sebaste is postponed to 23 March (Saturday), and the patronal feast day of the Icon of the Mother of God “Sign” Kursk-Korennaya is transferred from 21 March (On this day, the rescue of the image from intruders is traditionally remembered, who tried to destroy it in the Znamensky Cathedral in Kursk in 1898 year) on 24 March (Sunday) on the Sunday of the Triumph of Orthodoxy.