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Father Mericantane wasn't interested in all that. He was interested in those angels and walked in and began speaking to a Jewish woman named Adele Kahn who happened to be the owner. A Jew!
And there, inside, the priest noticed a gorgeous icon of the Blessed Mother (with Infant).
Beautiful?
It was almost too dazzling for the eyes: a soled silver frame encrusted with pearls, diamonds, emeralds, sapphires, rubies, garnets. But it wasn't the jewels that caught the priest's eyes. It was "the simple sacred images of Mary and Jesus, looking out at us imploring us to notice them, to speak to them, to pray to them," the priest recalled.
It was also the history:
Father Mericantante was to learn (to his astonishment) that the icon had been painted by a Russia monk in the 16th century and once had been owned by Czar Nicholas II -- the saintly ruler of Russia who was forced to leave the throne and eventually murdered when Lenin rose to power in 1917!
This was an icon that had been on the cutting edge of history.
It was one of a number of precious icons held by the lineage of Russian tsars, certain of which were said to hold miraculous powers.
In fact, at the very moment of the Czar's (or "Tsar's") abdication -- three o'clock on March 2, 1917 -- a miracle took place that attested to God's love for Russia.
In the village of Kolomenskoye, near Moscow -- according to a revelation of the Mother of God -- a search had been taking place for several days for another icon called "The Reigning Mother of God." This icon had gone at the head of the Russian army in 1812 as it drove Napoleon out of Russia.
But then this wonder-working icon had been forgotten and seemingly lost. No one knew about its fate. And only on March 1, 1917, a day before the abdication, did a pious widow by the name of Eudocia receive a revelation to search for the icon in the village of Kolomenskoye. She looked through both of the churches of the village, but did not find the icon. Then she asked whether they had any old icons.
They told her that there were some in the basement. She asked to go there, and she and a deacon went down into the basement. "And truly, there were many old, dust-covered icons there. They began to wipe them one by one. But they still did not find the icon they were looking for.
But when she came up to the icon "The Reigning Mother of God," Eudocia cried out: "That's her!" although it was still covered with a thick layer of dust which made it impossible to recognize. When they cleaned it, it was true: the wonder-working icon of the Mother of God had been found.
It depicted the Mother of God seated on a throne, her countenance both stern and sorrowful, an orb and scepter in her hands and the Christ-child giving a blessing in her lap, with God the Father looking down from above.
This icon soon miraculously renewed itself -- according to accounts -- and the robe of the Mary was seen to be blood red, something which had been foretold also in the dream. Services were written to this icon and many people made the pilgrimage to venerate it. Healings, both of physical and mental infirmities, began to take place before it. Found, there amid the dust...
Had the one now in House of Kahn in Palm Beach also been there?
We don't know. What is relevant is that Tsar Nicholas was a very holy man who prayed incessantly and once requested to be a monk instead of leader of Russia and who had not only great devotion but an affinity for the poor.
This we know. We also know that he deeply venerated icons, and that he owned the one that had been handed down and was now -- when Father Mercantante came upon it, in the 1990s -- in a plush Palm Beach gallery.
It was an icon that had been witness to everything from Ivan the Terrible to Catherine the Great to the revolution of Communism -- at which time the icon, possessed by the dethroned and soon murdered tsar (an Orthodox saint), was smuggled to London in 1917, where it was sold to raise funds for the beleaguered Tsar's survivors.
"Adele had obtained it in a funny way," Father Mericantante told Spirit Daily. "She was opening a store and the first day a friend came in with an icon he had obtained in London."
It was the icon of Mary, and this friend of the Kahns had given it to Adele when she and her husband had opened their shop to see if she could sell it.
At first they thought it was a joke, but right off a stranger came into the shop, put down a substantial down payment and then, mysteriously enough, never returned.
This the Kahns considered good luck, and decided to keep the treasure -- worth $350,000 on the market, but, really, priceless.
It was considered a "lucky charm" and indeed when the Kahns were later robbed, the thief spotted the icon in their safe but didn't take it because he thought it was "junk"!
And now we come to the present.
Starting in 1995, Adele began visiting St. Mary Church in Pahokee out there in the boondocks as a favor to Father Mericantante and bringing the icon with her. The first time was Christmas Eve. She brought it so that those poor Mexican migrants could venerate it. They really took to it.
In 2000, noticing the effect it had on the devout, and especially on Father Mericantante, Adele Kahn gave it to the church.
And that has been followed, says Father Mericantante, by what seem like miraculous intercessions....
http://www.spiritdaily.com/pahokee.htm
I devoted a great deal of my youth to devouring all the books and materials I could find on the Seven Holy Royal Martyrs. I don't doubt that their prayers have been a guiding force in my journey to the Catholic Church, and desire for unity with the Orthodox. 
Oh, Lord please forgive me if that seemed like bragging. Mea Culpa. 
That course did give me opportunity to study along with the students. I had to and it broadened my horizons for sure. So am simply grateful that someone like me got to do it. I think the Lord opened that door for sure! 
But I will tell you I have felt blessed in a number of ways since I obtained this icon and an icon of St. Nicholas. So I don't know which is responsible. Maybe it's good to have both. 