July 21, 2015. PRAVMIR. An icon of St. Sergius of Radonezh printed on paper gushed forth myrrh on his feast day at the Church of the Apostles Paul and Peter in the town of Novopavlovsk.

According to the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper, thousands of parishioners have come to pray before this icon.

A special committee of the Russian Orthodox Church has travelled to Stavropol to examine the icon, question witnesses, and to draw conclusions.

“It is so far too early to speak about a holy miracle,” said Fr. Vladislav (Tsapko), Rector of the Sts. Paul and Peter Church. “We are waiting for the experts’ conclusion. However, the event testifies to the fact that this is a sacred place, although the church is young, and that the purity of Orthodox traditions is preserved here. Perhaps, this myrrh-streaming is a good sign of the redemption of the parishioners’ sins. Or, perhaps, it foreshadows painful news. No one can ever say.”