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Protection of the Mother of God

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Russian Usage
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.
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