Spiritual help and support: the icon of Matrona of Moscow

Among a rather large number of Orthodox saints, worshiped by believers and not only, there are several very special personalities. Their spiritual feat is so great that even during their lifetime these people were endowed with a unique divine power to help the suffering. And after their physical death, already incarnated in the spirit, they continue to hear people's prayers and give us invisible hands of support. It is to such wonderful personalities that Matryona Nikonova, a native of the village of Sebino, who was in the former Tula province, refers. The truth is more known it under a different name - Mother Matrona, or Matrona Moskovskaya

Great trials

The icon of the Matrona of Moscow is in practically every church, monastery, in many rural houses and urban flats. Every day thousands of prayers turn to her, and in each - a great hope for a miracle, help, blessing and support. The life of Matrona Moskovskaya tells the story of the fate of this amazing woman.

If we consider the truth that the Lord marks a different person with a special sign even before his birth, the Matryona case is the most obvious example. Her mother had a prophetic dream - a bird sat on her chest, beautiful externally, but blind. And then in the family of the Nikonovs a girl was born whose eyes were deprived of life. The grace of God manifested itself in that, not seeing the light of white, the child had an unusually sharp inner, spiritual vision. She felt, understood, appreciated both sinful human acts, and righteous ones. And her whole life, full of hardships, persecutions, her own diseases and endless compassion for people, is regarded as an asceticism, a feat in the name of Faith and Mercy. Therefore, being herself amazed by a grave illness, almost immobile (paralysis overtook her in adulthood), thanks to her piety and ineradicable, conscious faith in God, constant prayers, fasting, spiritual search, a woman could heal hopelessly sick, support those who fell Spirit, to anticipate certain events.

For her inner gaze there were no spatial boundaries, and she, like the Holy Spirit, sitting on her bed in her room, was with soldiers on the fronts of the Great Patriotic War, protecting their lives. Those who suffered for their faith in the cells of the NKVD disappeared in the GULAG, it supported the will, the vitality. It is difficult to overestimate the enormous moral impact that this woman has on thousands of people. And after the death, which she herself predicted, every icon of Saint Matrona of Moscow possesses the same miraculous properties. Mother Matronushka announced to all those who were saddened by her death, that they would come to her with their needs, problems, and troubles just as if she were nearby. At her grave or in front of the icon, they shared their sore. The saint promised that she would hear everyone and try to help, become a protector before the face of God.

Icon of the Miraculous

The promise was kept. On May 2, the church celebrates the day of this great martyr and seer, healer and comforter. The icon of Matrona Moskovskaya in the monastery, in which she is buried, like a modest grave, are transformed into places of endless pilgrimage. With what kind of requests people do not address! Someone has lost a child or someone from relatives, and they ask to give news about him, to help find him. Asking for sick people - about health. Women, deprived of the happiness of motherhood, pray for sending them the opportunity to conceive and bear the baby.

He hears the icon of the Matrona of Moscow and requests for the resolution of family conflicts, the elimination of discord between the spouses, the misunderstanding between children and parents. About a happy life. About that the praying person could get a decent job, keep a family. But is it not enough that we may need, is there not much in what stalemate can we find ourselves! And often it is the icon of Matrona Moskovskaya that becomes the very straw that gives hope and does not allow us to drown in the abyss of despair.