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| The Holy Nativity of the Mother of God Yurovichi Monastery |
This icon, executed in the ecclesiastical style of the Hodegetria Mother of God, according to the conclusion of an expert commission of art historians, was probably painted at the beginning of the 17th century on the territory of the Commonwealth, in its Belarusian or Ukrainian part, because. in the design of the image, a strong influence of the Orthodox icon-painting tradition is noticeable. The first mention of the icon dates back to 1630, when it was owned by the Crown Hetman and Cracow castellan Stanislav Koncepolsky .
After Koncepolsky's death in 1653, the icon was transferred by his relatives to the Jesuit collegium of the city of Bar, in Podolia. Then she moved to the Jesuit Collegium in Lvov, where for the first time the clergy and believers noticed that after sincere prayer, many miracles were performed before her. One of the members of the Lvov Collegium, the young priest Martin Torovsky, arrived in Yurovichi in the spring of 1673. The preacher stayed in Yurovichi and soon, with the help of local residents, built a chapel here on the mountain.
It was consecrated on September 8, 1673, and a miraculous icon was solemnly placed here. From that time to the present day, she is considered the patroness and intercessor of Yurovich and the entire Mozyr Polesie, she is equally revered by both Catholics and Orthodox. Already in the second half of the 19th century, the last Yurovichi priest Hugo Godzietsky, foreseeing the imminent closure of his church by the tsarist authorities, decided to preserve the miraculous icon of the Mother of God for posterity. At his request, a talented artist from Derechin, Yadviga Kenevich, made an exact copy of the icon and secretly replaced it with the original.
The priest handed over the real miraculous icon to his parishioner, the very devout Gabriela Gorvat, the wife of the marshal of the nobility of the Rechitsa district, for preservation. After the uprising of 1863-1864, the church was closed and transferred to the Orthodox department on the basis of the order of Governor-General Muravyov. She made a written commitment from the Jesuits to return the icon to Yurovichi when the church reappears there. Currently, the original miraculous icon is in the Church of St. The Synod of the Belarusian Orthodox Church has decided to hold an annual procession in her honor from Mozyr to Yurovichi and solemn divine services on the feast of Praise of the Mother of God.
The majestic temple with twelve domes was far visible outside the village. At the end of the 19th century, an Orthodox monastery was organized here. Unfortunately, the twentieth century left little information about the monastery. The building of the temple remained intact until the 60s.
In the 60-70s of the XX century, the structure of the temple was dismantled by local residents for the construction of utility rooms.
