A miracle happened in the village of Tatsinskaya, Tatsinsky district, Rostov region. In the house of a retired MVD officer Nikolai Malikov, first one icon began to pour myrrh, and the next day moisture was released from eight icons at once. An unusual phenomenon occurred shortly before Lent, after Nikolai Malikov returned from the church.
On March 10, I left for Rostov to receive communion in my favorite church - the Martyr Tsarina Alexandra. I returned to Tatsinskaya at about midnight, and when I entered the house, I went to light the icon lamp standing by the icons, - says Nikolai Malikov. - I went up to them and noticed that on the left side of the icon of Christ the Savior there are some droplets that look like dew, and drips are visible on the right side of the icon.
At first, the owner thought that water had got into the image, but after looking closely, he saw that the droplets shine and clearly differ from H2O, resembling an oily liquid. Very surprised by what he saw, Nikolai called his wife to make sure that what he saw was not a hallucination.
Impressed by what was happening in his house, Nikolai Malikov could not sleep all night. An even greater shock awaited him the next morning. Waking up and going up to the icons, the retired officer saw that several more icons had begun to stream myrrh.
“Drops came out of the icon of the Virgin, Xenia of Petersburg, Seraphim of Sarov,” recalls the owner of the icons. - And on the icon of Nicholas the Pleasant appeared shiny balls, similar to amber.
Among the myrrh-streaming was the icon of John of Kronstadt, created by the hands of Nicholas himself. The officer made it by cutting out the image of the saint from the calendar, and then covered the paper with adhesive tape. What happened to the icon of John of Kronstadt finally convinced Nikolai Malikov and everyone who saw the myrrh-streaming icons that a miracle had happened. Miro did not come out on the surface of the tape, but out of the paper itself with the image of the saint, which is under the adhesive tape. As a result, according to the retired officer, a small "blister" filled with moisture formed under the tape.
Myrrh-streaming is the effusion of the holy world (a mixture of oil of wood and red wine with incense) with the relics of saints, icons and other shrines of Christianity. Until the 20th century, fewer cases of myrrh-streaming icons were described. Previously, the phenomenon was very rare. During the 20th century, myrrh streaming became widespread. Nowadays, there are frequent reports that shrines in various parts of the Earth are streaming myrrh or "crying".
Why this happened in the house of Nikolai Malikov, who shared the ideas of Marxism for about half of his life, and came to religion about 20 years ago, neither the owner of the myrrh-streaming icons nor the representatives of the church knows.
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“Myrrh streaming is the grace of God. This is a violation by the Lord of the laws of physics, designed to establish people in the faith, - explains Father Rostislav, rector of the Church of the Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos in the village of Tatsinskaya, which Nikolai Malikov often visits. - I think that what happened is not connected with the approaching Great Lent or with anything else. This happened by the will of the Lord, and I think it will not be possible to explain why the icons began to stream myrrh in the house of Nicholas."
In general, myrrh-streaming of icons, according to Father Rostislav, occurs quite often in the Rostov region. Moreover, this happens both in churches and in the homes of believers. The only difference is that myrrh streaming in a private home is often not advertised, but the miracle that happened in the temple is recorded and studied by a special church commission.
Scientists agree that what happened is a violation of physical laws. At the same time, there is an opinion that it is not God who is behind the myrrh streams and other miracles, but … poltergeists. Moreover, people themselves are to blame for their appearance in our world.
"Myrrh streaming is one of the manifestations of poltergeist," says Viktor Rogozhkin, head of the Enio Research Center in Rostov. - The poltergeists themselves are a violation of the physical constants of our four-dimensional world, that is, the crossing of the boundaries of our world and the space where the essences of deceased people live. This happens when a person addresses or remembers the deceased.
For example, during prayer. Prayer is essentially a spiritualistic seance, when a person calls on the dead, in our case saints, to come to his aid. The effusion of myrrh and spontaneous combustion of icons, as well as other phenomena that are called miracles, are a manifestation of the presence of the essence of the dead in our world. This happens especially often during major religious holidays, when a large number of believers turn to the saints."
However, most of the inhabitants of Tatsinskaya still adhere to the position of the church. Over the past two days, dozens of village residents have already visited the house of Nikolai Malikov, making a real pilgrimage to the myrrh-streaming icons.