Located near the city of Kursk, in the Native Nativity of the Mother of God of the desert.

Of all the extant springs Virgin source Root desert - the most ancient. It opened in the XIII century, during the invasion of the Tatars in Holy Russia. At that time (and it was in 1237) Kursk was completely ruined and destroyed by the Tatar hordes. Killed nearly all the townspeople, and those who survived, went to live in the nearby town of Rylsk. More than half a century remained the Kursk dead city, but in 1295, the day of Nativity, one of the hunters found the icon, facing a face down, as if buried in the roots of a tree. Hunter ripped the icon from the root - and from under her scoring a source of clean, like a luminous, water. On the icon was a picture of Our Lady, her image, known as "The Omen". This miracle has attracted a lot of people in Kursk, and the city has risen. On-site fountain was built by the holy abode, which to this day beating the Theotokos, and spring is the miracle-working Kursk-Root Icon of the Mother of God.

Prayer to the image of the Kursk-Root Mother of God

O Queen of Heaven! Who izochtet great many Thy wonders, who can count the cries of prayer requests, current softened with tears, thankful sighs, spillage before the icon Thy. UBO is covered all her sorrow of the people, cry of the oppressed and joyful praise reassured. Pripadahu her ye people who have suffered agaryanskoe yoke plakahu Moscow in troubled times, vzyvashe Kursk in the invasion of the enemy. Vopiyashe entire region in the days of deadly diseases and afflictions, and all the sorrow for the joy of art the proposes. Wherefore now, and bless the Russian land. Saved from sin, death and the temptations of our country. Pour the grace to work, farming, and for every good undertaking public. Remember, O Most Holy Virgin, on behalf of all the upcoming and praying and all the people, claiming Thy comfort, care and compassion. Thou knowest UBO secret of our hearts. Wherefore all the needs of their petitions for executive. Fair as misguided turn to repentance, enlighten us all as light of the Gospel of love and good deeds. Hierarchs of the pastors and all vernyya in Orthodoxy to death hard show, the kingdom of heaven council, and with Christ hath made zhiti forever. Amen.