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In recognition of this, the [[Holy Synod]] of the [[Church of Greece]] elected in 1960 to transfer the Feast from October 1 to October 28. The [[Ecumenical Patriarchate]] also provides for this usage in its parishes in Greece and in the Greek diaspora, and it is generally observed now throughout the Greek-speaking world. The observance includes the chanting of a [[Doxology]] incorporating hymns recognizing the Protection of the Theotokos over the Greek nation, as well as the [[kontakion]] "[[O Champion Leader]]." ==About the icon==Two different events that took place four hundred years apart are combined in this one icon. Both events took place in the former Church of Blachernae in Constantinople. The [[icon]] of the feast, Protection of the Mother of God, shows the [[Theotokos]] standing above the faithful with her arms outstretched in prayer and draped with a veil. On both sides of her are [[angels]]. On the lower right of most icons of this feast, are saints Andrew and his disciple Epiphanius who saw this vision of the Mother of God, with the twelve apostles, bishops, holy women, monks and martyrs, spreading her veil in protection over the [[congregation]]. St. Epiphanius is wearing a tunic under his cloak and gestures in astonishment at the miraculous appearance, while St. Andrew, [[Fool-for-Christ]], is dressed only in a cloak. Below the Theotokos, in the center of the icon, stands a young man with a [[halo]], he is clothed in a [[deacon]]'s [[sticharion]]. In his left hand, he is holding an open scroll with the text of the [[Kontakion]] for [[Nativity of the Theotokos|Nativity in honor of the Mother of God]]. This is St. [[Roman the Melodist|Romanus the Melodist]], the famous [[hymnographer]] whose feast is also celebrated on the same day, [[October 1]]. He is with his choir attended by the [[Leo VI|Emperor Leo the Wise]] together with the Empress and the Patriarch of Constantinople.
==References==<div><references/></div>
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The feast day commemorating the [[miracle]] is celebrated with an [[All-Night Vigil]], with many of the same elements as occur on [[Great Feast]]s of the Theotokos. However, this feast has no [[afterfeast]].
==Russian Usageusage==
The Russian ''[[Primary Chronicle]]'' noted that the intercession of the Theotokos was needed for the protection of the people of Constantinople when a large fleet of the pagan Rus, led by Askole and Dir, was threatening Constantinople. The invading fleet was defeated and the event remembered. Strangely, the feast came to be considered a very important feast by the Slavic Orthodox Churches but not by the Greeks.
The Moscow cathedral was built in the mid 1500s by Tsar Ivan IV and the Bogolyubovo church was built in 1165 by Prince Andrew Bogoliusky. In [[Novgorod]], the [[Monastery]] of the Intercession of Our Lady (Zverin Monastery) was also built during the twelfth century.
==Greek Usageusage==In recent years, the Feast of the Protection has become associated with thanksgiving for the deliverance of the Greek nation from the Italian invasion of 1940. These events are commemorated in Greece in a national holiday known as "Ochi Day" or "No Day," referring to the response of the Greek leader Metaxas to Mussolini's ultimatum.
In recent yearsrecognition of this, the Feast and because of the Protection has become associated with thanksgiving for the deliverance many miracles of the Holy Virgin which were reported by Greek nation from soldiers during the [[w:Greco-Italian invasion War|Greco-Italian War]] of 1940. These events are commomorated in -1941, the [[Holy Synod]] of the [[Church of Greece ]] elected in a national holiday known as "Oxi Day" or "No Day," referring 1952 to transfer the response of the Greek leader Metaxas Feast from October 1 to Mussolini[[October 28]].<ref>Great Synaxaristes: {{el icon}} ''s ultimatum[http://www.synaxarion.gr/gr/sid/1007/sxsaintinfo.aspx Μνήμη Ἁγίας Σκέπης τῆς Ὑπεραγίας Θεοτόκου].'' 28 Οκτωβρίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.</ref>
==Hymns==
:apostles and prophets rejoice together,
:since for our sake she prays to the pre-eternal God.
==Sources==
*[http://www.mgr.org/TheVeil.html The Miracle of the Virgin Mary at the Church of Blachernae in Constantinople in 911 A.D.]
==External links==
*[http://www.ec-patr.org/afieroma/churches/show.php?lang=en&id=02 The Church of Panagia of Blachernæ]*[http://www.angelfire.com/nv2/carthusian/Akathist/protection.html Akathist to the Most Holy Theotokos of All Protection]*''[[w:The Protection of the Mother of God|''The Protection of the Mother of God]].'' at Wikipedia]]*[http://www.wscsd.org/ejournal/article.php3?id_article=152 Celebration of Pokrov in Russia]*[http://goarch.org/en/chapel/saints.asp?contentid=738 The Feast of the Holy Skepi of the Theotokos], October 1 ([[GOARCH]])*[http://goarch.org/en/chapel/saints.asp?contentid=650 Holy Protection of the Theotokos], October 28 (GOARCH)
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