On September 20, the press service of the Volyn Eparchy of the Kyiv Patriarchate held a press conference at which Lutsk writer Viktor Hrebeniuk (who writes under the pseudonym Brother Viktor), a graduate of the Volyn Theological Seminary and literary editor of "Volyn Eparchial Gazette," presented the akathist to the Mother of God of Kholm that he created. For the first time in the Ukrainian Church and Ukrainian literature, an akathist has been written that fully corresponds to the Byzantine prototypes, yet at the same time it is a modern work, in creating which the author processed hard-to-access sources and also reflected the modern miracles of this ancient relic. One of the characters of the akathist, Lutsk journalist Viktor Verbych, also spoke before the journalists, having been invited to the press conference. Several years ago, having fallen ill with a severe pneumonia, he received healing after prayer before the Kholm Icon. Viktor Hrebeniuk created the akathist on commission from the administration of the Volyn Eparchy, and it was printed by the Volyn Regional Printing House (publishing house "Teren"). In the Eastern Christian tradition, a special form of worship is widespread – akathists. In the Byzantine prototypes these are a distinctive kind of religious rhymed hymns. A large portion of akathists consist of prayers to the most venerated wonder-working icons. However, in Rus-Ukraine all akathists were – owing to the extraordinary complexity of the genre – unrhymed or even prose. As Metropolitan Ilarion (Ohienko) said, "there are very many of them, but few of them are written truly poetically and theologically pure." The wonder-working Kholm Icon of the Mother of God with the Child is one of the four greatest shrines of Ancient Rus (the only one of them that is now in Ukraine, in the Museum of the Volyn Icon). The day of special veneration of this image falls on September 21 (the Nativity of the Mother of God, or the Second Most Pure). On this day in Lutsk, as once in Kholm, solemn celebrations are planned.