Easter Sunday has a deep significance for the devout Romanov family. They would spend the last 2 Easters of their lives in captivity. Eastern Orthodox Pascha found the family imprisoned in the Alexander Palace - the children still sick, Alexandra praying in her private chapel. Her most significant icon was paraded through the sickroom.she decided first of all to pray before the miracle-working icon of the Our Lady of the Sign (Znamenie Bozh'ei Materi) instructing that the icon be brought into the chambers of the sick children. Fervently, on her knees, with tears in her eyes, the earthly Tsaritsa asked the Heavenly Tsaritsa for help and intervention. Venerating the icon and coming to stand beneath it, she asked to bring it also to the sickbeds so that all the sick children could also touch their lips to the miracle-working Icon. Holding out the cross to be kissed, I said: "Fortify yourself and be brave, Your Majesty, for the dream is terrible, but God is merciful In all things, rely upon His divine will. Believe, trust, and don't stop praying."
Easter Sunday has a deep significance for the devout Romanov family. They would spend the last 2 Easters of their lives in captivity. Eastern Orthodox Pascha found the family imprisoned in the Alexander Palace - the children still sick, Alexandra praying in her private chapel. Her most significant icon was paraded through the sickroom.she decided first of all to pray before the miracle-working icon of the Our Lady of the Sign (Znamenie Bozh'ei Materi) instructing that the icon be brought into the chambers of the sick children. Fervently, on her knees, with tears in her eyes, the earthly Tsaritsa asked the Heavenly Tsaritsa for help and intervention. Venerating the icon and coming to stand beneath it, she asked to bring it also to the sickbeds so that all the sick children could also touch their lips to the miracle-working Icon. Holding out the cross to be kissed, I said: "Fortify yourself and be brave, Your Majesty, for the dream is terrible, but God is merciful In all things, rely upon His divine will. Believe, trust, and don't stop praying."