"Beiguan", 1939. pp 116-117.

September 30, 2009

Met. HERMAN
at St Catherine Church
July 5, 2006

at St Catherine Church
July 1, 2006

at St Catherine Church

Feb. 11, 2004

St Petersburg.
Moleben before
the icon. 2003.

icon in Lushun

"Feast of the
Mother of God"

Leushino

The Port Arthur icon of the Most Holy Mother of God is also knowned as the icon "Feast of the Most Holy Mother of God". It was originally written for the Port Arthur naval base at the beginning the Russo-Japanese war in 1904. It was to be delivered from St Petersburg by train to Port Arthur (present day Lushun, China), but ended up in Vladivostok for about half a year. The icon was sent off again to reach its destination of Port Arthur. This time it was being transported by vessel which was heading to Shanghai. Port Arthur surrendered to the Japanese on Dec 20, 1904. The icon never arrived at Port Arthur and mysteriously disappeared, but was recently discovered in a Jerusalem antique shop on Feb 17, 1996. On May 6th, 1998 the icon returned to Vladivostok. The Vladivostok diocese has designated August 16/29 as the day of commemoration for this icon, coinciding with the feastday of the Image Not Made By Hand of our Lord and God and Saviour Jesus Christ.

• Port Arthur Icon "TRIUMPH OF THE MOTHER OF GOD" has visited Harbin (July 7, 2014)
• Port Arthur Icon in China, October, year 2013 (Harbin, to Manzhouli, Shenyang, then Dalian and Lushun [Port Arthur]) (November 7, 2013)
• Services in memory of the defenders and inhabitants of Port Arthur are conducted on the day celebrating the Port Arthur Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos (August 31, 2011)
• The image of the Port Arthur Mother of God was put in the cemetery chapel in the town of Port Arthur (December 4, 2010)
• A procession with an icon of the Port Arthur Mother of God goes from Harbin to Port Arthur (August 17, 2010)
• The sacred Icon found in the Seaside Art Gallery September 30, 2009)
• Akathist to the Port Arthur Mother of God
• The Port Arthur Icon of the Triumph of the Theotokos
• The visit of Port-Arthur Mother of God Icon to Vancouver (October 19, 2006)
• His Beatitude, Metropolitan HERMAN celebrates a moleben before the Port Arthur Icon at St. Catherine the Great Martyr Church (July 5, 2006)
• Port Arthur Icon of the Mother of God welcomed at St. Catherine the Great Martyr Church (July 1, 2006)
• The wonder-working Port Arthur icon of the Theotokos will be brought to Moscow for veneration (June 27, 2006)
• The Port Arthur Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos will be available for veneration at St Catherine the Great Martyr Church (June 27, 2006)
• On August, 29th - a holiday of the Port Arthur icon of the "Feast of the Most Holy Mother of God" (Aug 26, 2004, Machine Translation)
• Finishing of the seafaring religious procession "Blessed be the Far East" (May 25, 2004)
• In former Port Arthur the participants of a seafaring religious procession aboard the frigate "Pallada" made their stay (May 16, 2004)
• The List Port Arthur of an icon It is presented at an exhibition "Remember war" (Feb 11, 2004, Machine Translation)
• Sea religious procession Has begun About Port Arthur icon of the Mother of God (August 8, 2003, Machine Translation)
• The Mother of God in Port Arthur (May 18, 2003, Machine Translation)
• Port Arthur Icon of the Most Holy Mother of God Arrives in Beijing (May 12, 2003)
• History of the Port Arthur of Icon "Feast of the Most Holy Mother of God" (May 2003, Machine Translation)
• History of the Port Arthur of Icon "Feast of the Most Holy Mother of God" (April 2003, Machine Translation)
• The story of the icon painter about creation of the Port Arthur icon (March 31, 2003, Machine Translation)
• Port Arthur icon - Feast of the Mother of God (March 23, 2003, Machine Translation)
• CHURCH LIFE: Port Arthur Icon of the Mother of God (October 1998, Machine Translation)
• CHURCH LIFE: Finding an icon "Feast of the Mother of God" (October 1998)