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The “Sign” (“Korchemnya” or “Tavern”) Icon
Commemorated on December 10
This “Sign” Icon of the Most-holy Theotokos got the added name “Korchemnaya” or “Tavern” Icon, after a certain widow of Ryazan who suffered from a weakness for wine, pawned her house icon of “Our Lady of the Sign.” Th God-fearing tavern keeper who took the icon from the widow as a pledge installed it on his icon shelf. In the morning, the widow sobered up, was horrified at what she had done, got some money, and redeemed the icon. However, the next day the icon disappeared from the widow’s house. To his amazement, the tavern keeper saw the icon reappear on his icon shelf. To everyone’s surprise, the repentant widow immediately stopped drinking. The icon remained at the tavern and received its unusual name. By prayers before the Korchemnaya Icon, the Mother of God has often rendered help to many people who appeal to her.
In 1850, after the tavern stopped doing busines, the icon was given to the church of St. Symeon the Stylite. There it remained until the church was closed down during the Soviet era. Thereafter, the miraculous “Sign” “Tavern” Icon of the mother of God was in the care of a certain pious family in Ryazan. Today it is in the Monastery of St. John the Theologian, Ryazan Diocese. There is a copy of the miraculous icon in Ryazan’s Nikolo-Yamsky church, a metochion of the monastery.