Pilgrims from all over Russia come to venerate the image of Jesus Christ depicted on a mountain in Karachayevo-Cherkessia

Moscow, January 26, Interfax - Believers come from all over Russia to see the image of Jesus Christ depicted presumably in the 9th century on one of the rocks 20 kilometers away from the Zelenchuk Cossack Village in Karachayevo-Cherkessia.

It was discovered by locals in the last century mid-90s, namely, the brothers Varchenko, when they went shooting. But having seen ‘some icon’, they decided to make it their own secret and have kept it for four years, the Trud-7 weekly writes on Thursday.

Finally, the brothers confessed having seen the image to archeologists but did not get around to showing the specific place, only waving a hand in the direction of a mountain ridge.

After a long search, archeologists came across the ‘icon’. It was 8 meters high and 2,5 meters wide.

The miraculous properties of this image were first discovered by locals after a childless woman astrophysicist, who lived in the Nizhniy Arkhyz village, became pregnant after praying at the image for only a month.

‘People come here from all over Russia every day. There are also some foreigners. Some wish to change something in their life, while others come for conciliation’, said Father Victor, rector of the local parish.

According to specialists, the image resembles of Sinai Icon of Christ the Pantocrator painted in wax dyes. Comparing the Sinai image with the image on the Turin shroud, scientists identified 45 similarities, the weekly notes.

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Thanks Alice, a wonderful promise of God's love. It would be awesome to see a picture of it. God is busy evangelizing Russia in many ways - even rocks.

http://images.izvestia.ru/inauka/22371.jpg

I found this on the net but it takes while to be able to see the face feature. Seems the locasl people are now Moslems. From what I have read the place was once Christian but by the 18th century it had died out among the local ethnic groups. The only Christians then were the Cossacks. Who are now recognised at their own request as their own ethnic group.

Thanks Pavel, for doing the leg work. Maybe that is why they kept it quiet.

Hope you are having a nice summer down under

Pani Rose

This article and the picture are both edifying. Thanks for posting them.

In Christ,

Mary Jo