The Sokalskaya Icon of the Mother of God Consolation is a miraculous icon depicting Our Lady of Sokalska , which is stored in a sanctuary on the territory of Hrubieszow (Poland).
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| Iconographic Type | Hodegetria |
| Location | Hrubieszow , Poland |
History
The miraculous Virgin Mary was first mentioned in 1612 in the annals of the Sokalsky monastery.
According to legend, this icon was painted in the 14th century by the talented Lithuanian icon painter Jacob Venzhik. This artist worked a lot and, as a result, became blind. Jacob went on a pilgrimage to Czestochowa . After the prayer of the Mother of God of Czestochowa , a miracle happened - the vision returned.
Struck by the beauty of the Black Madonna, the artist decided to write a copy of the icon. It was difficult to create from memory, so he visited the Yasna Guru twice more . Returning home for the last time, he saw an icon painted on a cypress board, from which light emanated. Jacob Venzhik realized that it was completed with an angelic hand. It happened in 1392.
The icon was recognized as the Mother of God of Consolation and placed with great honor in the church of the city of Sokal.
At the beginning of the XVI century the Tatars destroyed Sokal. The church burned down. Miraculously, the surviving icon was found on the ashes. The city was moved to the high right bank of the Bug, and in the old place, they built a chapel where the icon was for almost a hundred years.
At the beginning of the 17th century, on the initiative of the Kholm bishop Stanislav Gomolinsky, a monastery and a Bernardine church were built on the site of the chapel, where they placed the icon of the Mother of God of Sokalsky Consolation. On September 8, 1724, her coronation took place with papal crowns.
Here this icon became famous for its miracles, as pious people told. The monastery became the center of religious life. Many pilgrims from Poland and Russia came here to pray in front of the icon, called the “Russian Czestochowa” .
But during the church fire in May 1843, the icon burned down. Using a confirmed copy of the original from a small church in Pozdimir, the Lviv artist Jan Mashkovsky painted a new icon on a copper plate. In September 1843 it was consecrated.
In 1951, the icon was transported to Krakow and was stored in the chapel of the Bernardine Church for 50 years.
September 8, 2002 the renewed miraculous icon of the Sokal Mother of God The Consolation was transferred from Krakow to the church of St. Stanislav Kostka in the town of Grubeshov, which since then has been playing the role of the sanctuary of the miraculous icon of the Mother of God of Sokalsky Consolation.