This book offers a short history of the iconOs place in the Russian Orthodox Church and recounts some of the miracles associated with its veneration.

The icon of the Mother of God 'Quick to Hear' is widely venerated throughout the Orthodox world; a copy of the icon survived both a fire and the destruction of churches under communism to come to rest at the St. Alexander Nevsky Lavra in St. Petersburg. This offers a short history of the icon's place in the Russian Orthodox Church and recounts some of the miracles associated with its veneration.