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'''Mother of God Assuage''' <ref> [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/assuage '''Assuage''' (Wictionary)] –verb (used with object), 1. to make milder or less severe; relieve; ease; mitigate: to assuage one's grief; to assuage one's pain. 2. to appease; satisfy; allay; relieve: to ''assuage one's hunger''. 3. to soothe, calm, or mollify </ref> '''My Sorrows''' is the name of a wonderworking [[icon]] treasured in the Church of St. Nicholas-in-Kusnetsy Odrino Nikolaev Odrin Monastery in the Orel DioceseKarachev, Karachev district in Moscow Orlov province and copies of this icon are to be found in churches all over Moscow.  The icon is commemorated [[January 25]] (by the Old Calendar) and is also commemorated on [[September 25]] and [[October 9]]. <ref> There is a special "Service with Akathistos to the All-Holy Theotokos, Assuage My Sorrow", a publication of the Kievan Monastery of the Caves printing house, 1888. (Reference ''Sobranie mneniy i otziv'' [Collection of Opinions and Responses], Philaret, Metropolitan of Moscow, vol. V., pages 391-4, about the first edition of this service)</ref>.

:''"Judge righteously; each show mercy to one another; do not offend widows and orphans, and do not keep malice in your heart towards your brother."''

The origins of this icon can be traced back to a battle in Shklova, in the Mogilev Province, during 1640; it is not known who painted the original icon carrying the name "Assuage My Sorrows" although it is presumed that it is was brought to Russia from a Russian Monastery from [[Mount Athos]]. During the reign of Tsar [[Tsar Michael Fyodorovitchof Russia|Michael Fydorovich]] (1613-1645) a great battle took place, near Shklova, in which the Russians defeated the Poles. In honour of this defeat a copy of the miracle-working image was translated by the Cossacks to Moscow and placed in the Church of St. Nicholas in Zamoskovoretchie Zamoskovorechie <ref>This church has since been demolished and no longer exists</ref> in the Pupishevo district of Moscow.

Tradition relates that the first time this Icon icon was [[glorification|glorified ]] was in the second half of the 18th century. The miraculous power was revealed through a certain woman who had been suffered suffering from a weakness in her hands and feet. Physicians were not able to help her with her ailment and in a vision, she was told to go to Moscow and pray before the icon of the Mother of God bearing the inscription "Assuage my SorrowSorrows;" in the same vision, she was shown the Iconicon. Not finding that Icon icon in the church, she turned to the [[priest ]] for help, who then brought all of the ancient icons down from the bell-tower. One of the icons bore the inscription "Assuage my SorrowSorrows." As soon as the woman saw the Icon icon, she exclaimed: “It is she! It is she!”. After a moleben , the ailing woman felt so much stronger that she was able to stand and leave the church unaided.

This miracle occurred on January 25th 25 (Julian Calendar), 1760. Since then, a [[Feast day ]] in honor of the "Assuage my SorrowSorrows" Icon icon has been observed. In the church Church of St Nicholas, the icon was installed in an appropriate place, and an [[altar ]] was dedicated in its honor.

From all over the city, the faithful and suffering came to Zamoskovorechie to bow down before the newly-revealed icon, and God’s power was revealed in many other miracles. An especially great number of miracles [[miracle]]s happened during the plague epidemic of 1771. Many copies of the miraculous Icon icon were made and distributed throughout all Russia; in Moscow alone, four other icons bearing the same name were glorified by miracles.

Sooth Soothe the pains of my much-sighing soul, O thou who hast wiped away every tear from the face of the earth:

* Her icons that have names like [[Mother of God Joy of All Who Sorrow|“The Joy of All who Sorrow”]] (“Vsekh Skorbiashchikh Radost”), [[Assuage My Sorrows|“Ease my Sorrows”]] icon(“Utoli moia pechali”), “Intercessor of Sinners” (“Sporuchnitsa greshnykh”), “Comfort in Griefs and Sorrows” (“V skorbiakh i Pechaliakh Uteshenie”). == Source of Information ==Most of the content for this article was extracted from the [http://www.stjohndc.org/Russian/theotokos/e_0297_sorrow.htm "Assuage My Sorrows"] article on the St. John the Baptist Russian Orthodox Cathedral, Washington DC website.