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[[Image:AssuageMySorrows.JPG|right|thumbnail|Mother of God Assuage My Sorrows (Greek version)]]
'''Assuage My Sorrows''' is the name of a wonderworking [[icon]] known as the '''Mother of God, Assuage My Sorrows''' and is treasured in the St. Nicholas Odrino Monastery in the Orel Diocese, Karachev district. The Mother of God is depicted with a hand bending toward her head and with the Child holding a scroll in both hands directly sitting on her left hand. On the scroll are the words "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." <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. (See 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>. This  The miracle-working "Assuage my Sorrow" [[icon]] rests in the Church of St Nicholas-in-Kuznetsy in Moscow 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 [[February 8September 25]] by the NC) and on [[October 9]].
==History==
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 happened during the plague epidemic of 1771. Many copies of the miraculous Icon were made and distributed throughout all Russia; in Moscow alone, four other icons bearing the same name were glorified by miracles.
 
Today, the miracle-working "Assuage my Sorrow" Icon rests in the Church of St Nicholas-in-Kuznetsy in Moscow and copies of the Icon are to be found in churches all over Moscow. The icon is also commemorated on [[September 25]] and [[October 9]].
==Hymns==
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