Preparing for the Visitation of the Image of Jesus the Merciful (part II), Kamjen’ 2009. Візітацыя абразу Езуса Міласэрнага (частка ІI), Камень 2009 год.
The village of Kamjen’ (“Stone”), named after a giant boulder carried there during one of the Ice Ages, lies on the edge of the Nalibaki Wilderness (Nalibotskaja pushcha – Налібоцкая пушча) about 45 miles west of Mjensk. Kamjen’ is a village one immediately and instinctively likes. Perhaps this reaction is created by the dignity of its inhabitants. They — like the inhabitants of other villages in the Nalibaki Wilderness — display a sense of rootedness, resilience in the face of what happened to their forefathers and to their church under both Soviets and Germans, and quiet pride in their parish.
Here villagers await the arrival of the image, which was on a circuit through parishes in the Minsk-Mahiljou diocese.
