Healing 'Reigning Woman' icon coming to San Francisco: The Russian Orthodox relic is named because it pictures the mother of Jesus, holding a scepter.

From: Contra Costa Times (Walnut Creek, CA) | Date: September 2, 2007 | Copyright information

Byline: Rebecca Rosen Lum

Sep. 2--A Russian Orthodox icon unearthed from a sooty hiding place in 1917 and said to possess miraculous healing powers comes to San Francisco this month with revived Sretensky Monastery Choir.

The "goodwill tour" fetes the healing of a bitter division between Russian Orthodoxy in the mother country and beyond.

The Russian Church Abroad severed ties with the Russian Orthodox Church after the Bolshevik revolution, vowing t...

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