Wonderworking and revered icons of the Most Holy Theotokos: the story of each icon, its feast days in the Church calendar, and images.
Images are from the PravIcon.com catalogue.
Found: 737
In the Church calendar
21 мая/3 июня; 23 июня/6 июля; 26 августа/8 сентября
One of the greatest holy treasures of the Russian Church, traditionally ascribed to the Evangelist Luke. Brought to Rus' from Constantinople in the 1…
In the Church calendar
8/21 июля; 22 октября/4 ноября
One of the most venerated icons of the Russian Church, found in Kazan in 1579 after the Mother of God appeared in a dream to a girl named Matrona. A …
In the Church calendar
27 ноября/10 декабря
One of the oldest images of the Mother of God, with hands raised in prayer and the Christ Child Emmanuel on her breast. It is named after the Novgoro…
In the Church calendar
5/18 февраля
One of the best-loved Russian icons of the Mother of God, the last hope of those who think themselves lost. Several wonderworking icons bear this nam…
In the Church calendar
24 октября/6 ноября
One of the most venerated icons of the Russian Church; it became renowned in 1688, when Euphemia, sister of Patriarch Joachim, was healed before it i…
In the Church calendar
12/25 февраля; 23 апреля/6 мая; 13/26 октября; вторник Светлой седмицы
One of the most venerated icons of the Orthodox world, kept at Iviron Monastery on Mount Athos. According to tradition, in the 9th century it was sav…
In the Church calendar
16/29 августа
An icon painted in 1904 for besieged Port Arthur after an old sailor's vision: the Mother of God, holding a veil with the Saviour's face, stands upon…
In the Church calendar
26 июня/9 июля
One of the most venerated icons of the Russian Church. Said to have been painted by St Luke the Evangelist, it appeared above Lake Ladoga in 1383 and…
In the Church calendar
14/27 марта; 16/29 августа
One of the most revered icons of the Russian Church, said to have been painted by St Luke. In 1613 Michael Feodorovich, the first tsar of the Romanov…
In the Church calendar
пятница Светлой седмицы
An icon associated with a wonderworking spring near Constantinople, where in the 5th century a blind man received his sight at the word of the Mother…
In the Church calendar
9/22 ноября
An ancient wonderworking icon of the Dochiariou Monastery on Mount Athos. It received its name in the 17th century, when the Mother of God promised t…
In the Church calendar
21 января/3 февраля
A wonderworking icon of Vatopedi Monastery on Mount Athos. According to tradition, on 21 January 807 the Mother of God warned the abbot through this …
In the Church calendar
23 июля/5 августа; 8/21 сентября
One of the most revered shrines of the Russian Church, kept since 1597 in the Pochaev Lavra in Volhynia. It is famed for many miracles and for the de…
In the Church calendar
2/15 мая
An ancient wonderworking icon of the town of Putivl which, according to tradition, appeared on the town gates. The old Putivl icons showed the Mother…
In the Church calendar
19 августа/1 сентября
An ancient icon that, according to tradition, accompanied the Russian army at the Battle of Kulikovo in 1380; the Donskoy Monastery was founded in th…
In the Church calendar
5/18 марта
An ancient image of Byzantine origin before which parents pray for their children and their upbringing. Before the Revolution the wonderworking icon …
In the Church calendar
18 июня/1 июля
One of the oldest Russian icons, painted in the 12th century at the behest of Holy Prince Andrei Bogolyubsky in memory of the appearance of the Mothe…
In the Church calendar
28 июня/11 июля; 12/25 июля
A wonderworking icon before which, according to tradition, St John of Damascus was healed after his hand had been cut off. In gratitude he attached a…
In the Church calendar
12/25 октября; местно также 13/26 ноября и суббота 5-й седмицы Великого поста
According to tradition painted by the Evangelist Luke in Gethsemane; it came from Constantinople to Rus, where it was kept in Novgorod and later in t…
In the Church calendar
8/21 сентября
A symbolic icon illustrating the words of Proverbs, “Wisdom hath builded her house”: the Mother of God is shown as the house in which Wisdom, the Son…
In the Church calendar
15/28 августа
The patronal icon of St Sophia's Cathedral in Veliky Novgorod: a symbolic image in which Christ, the Wisdom of God, appears as a fiery Angel enthrone…
In the Church calendar
15/28 октября
An icon of new design which St Ambrose of Optina named “Multiplier of Wheat” in 1890: the Mother of God, seated on clouds, blesses a harvested field …
In the Church calendar
26 августа/8 сентября
A narrative icon of the solemn meeting of the Vladimir Icon in Moscow on 26 August 1395, when the city was threatened by Tamerlane. The earliest surv…
In the Church calendar
5/18 июля
An icon of the Great Lavra on Mount Athos commemorating the appearance of the Mother of God to St Athanasius the Athonite during a famine in the 10th…
