WONDERWORKING ICON VISITS
SERBIAN CHURCH IN AKRON
Akron, OH - As most of the Serbian Orthodox faithful throughout our diocese know, the wonderworking Icon of the Mother of God of Sitka has been traveling from parish to parish over the past months.
Initially His Grace, Bishop Nikolai of Sitka, Anchorage and Alaska presented the proposal for the cross-country pilgrimage to His Beatitude, Metropolitan Herman and the members of the Holy Synod of Bishops of the OCA in 2004. In the summer of 2005, the icon visited numerous parishes and communities across Alaska in preperation for the pilgrimage.
During the visit of the wonderworking icon to the faithful in Akron, OH, stopping at St. Elia Orthodox Church, Fr. Dragomir Tuba requested of the Archimandrite Isidore that the icon visit his church the following day. Although not scheduled, in the morning of the following day, Monday, October 10, 2005, this holy icon was welcomed by the faithful of St. Archangel Michael Serbian Orthodox Church in Akron, Ohio and a Moleban was served.