The icon, revered as the “protector of Russia,” first appeared in Kazan in 1579 and hung in the Kazan Cathedral in Moscow's Red Square and the Kazan Cathedral in St. Petersburg before being ...

The Vatican icon – known as the Mother of God of Kazan – will be turned over to the Russian Orthodox Church at the Cathedral of the Assumption in the Kremlin Aug. 28, Itar-Tass reported.

When I visited Kazan Cathedral, one of the churches the communists allowed to function, I watched as a long line of people waited to pay homage to a famous icon of the virgin and child. Among the ...

MOSCOW, May 5. /TASS/. Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirill has announced his decision to transfer the miracle-working Our Lady of Kazan icon to Moscow’s Christ the Savior Cathedral.

Stalin, a former divinity student, had turned this cathedral where tsars had been crowned into a museum of atheism. But now people lined up in front of the Lady of Kazan icon, and kissed her, to ...

The cross will be displayed at the Kazan Cathedral in St. Petersburg, in Moscow, in the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, and the Belarusian capital, Minsk, as part of celebrations marking 1,025 years of ...

Patriarch Kirill told a congregation at Kazan Cathedral in Moscow's Red Square on July 21 that such recognition "means people are choosing a path of self-destruction." ...