In 1840, in a village on the banks of the Dniepr, as Mrs. Kasperov was praying before her old Transylvanian icon late at night, she witnessed the age-darkened faces of the Mother and Child brighten and become clear. The renovation persisted, soon accompanied by miracles of healing. As devotion to the icon spread, the town of Kherson instituted an annual procession with it at the Feast of the Ascension. During the Crimean War, the procession moved to the city of Odessa, which remained unharmed. Thereafter, the Kasperov Icon made an annual rotation among Odessa, Kherson, and the towns of Nikolaev and Kasperovka. July 12 (June 29 in the old calendar), the icon's last day in Kherson, was celebrated as its feast, along with October 1/14 and the Wednesday after Easter (its first and last days in Odessa). The processions ceased during the Soviet period, resuming in the 1990s. The Kasperovskaya's main residence is now in Holy Dormition Cathedral, Odessa.

Sources: Russian Orthodox Cathedral of St. John the Baptist, Washington, D.C., stjohndc.org (photo) "Касперовская икона Божией Матери," Свято - Иверский мужской монастырь, iverskiy.od.ua/kasperovskaya-ikona-bozhiej-materi Also celebrated this date: Nossa Senhora de Natividade, Natividade, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Pilgrimage on anniversary of 1967 apparition to Dr. Fausto de Faria and appearance of mysterious hematite in his hand. Mass and immersion of stone. Three-Handed Mother of God, Troyan Monastery, Oreshak, Troyan, Lovech, Bulgaria. Festal liturgy preceded by all-night prayer service honors monastery's miraculous icon. Our Lady of Lourdes, Wollaston Lake, Saskatchewan, Canada. Grotto blessed, 1981. Notre-Dame, Coutances, Manche, Basse-Normandie, France. Cathedral dedicated, early 1200s; feast December 8. Our Lady of Consolation, West Grinstead, Wiltshire, England, UK. Statue crowned, 1893.