Case file · Apparition / miracle
The Abalak icon vision
A widow named Maria in Abalak near Tobolsk said the Virgin appeared to her in dreams and ordered a church built for a 'Sign' icon flanked by St Nicholas and St Mary of Egypt.
1636 CE · 58.13, 68.59 · status: legend
The account
After frightening repeat visions, the archbishop ordered the church built. The painter, a sick protodeacon, was healed while painting the icon, as a Tobolsk holy fool had foretold. The Abalak icon became Siberia's most venerated.