The Kursk-Root Icon of the Mother of God is Brought to the Construction Site of All Saints Church

DIOCESE OF BERLIN AND GERMANY – ROCOR 20/6/2012 On June 19, 2012, with the blessing of His Eminence Archbishop Mark of Berlin and Germany, Vice President of the Synod of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia, the miracle-working Kursk-Root Icon of the Mother of God “of the Sign” was brought to the construction site of a new stavropighial Church of All Saints in Strasbourg, France. A moleben and akathist were served before the holy image by Hegumen Philipp (Ryabykh), the church rector and representative of the Moscow Patriarchate in the Council of Europe, parish clergyman Priest Evgeny Makushkin and Priest Dmitry Svistunov of the Diocese of Berlin and Germany.