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
15/28 августа
The principal icon of the Pskov Caves Monastery — the Dormition icon of its cave church, which wrought its first healing in 1473. It became especiall…
In the Church calendar
15/28 августа
An icon of the Dormition of the Theotokos, said to have been found in the 16th century in the cleft of an oak on the hill of Pühtitsa in Estonia afte…
In the Church calendar
15/28 августа
An icon of the Dormition traditionally attributed to St Dionysius of Glushitsa; it became renowned in 1593, when the nun Juliania, following a vision…
In the Church calendar
12/25 октября
An ancient icon said to have been painted by St Luke the Evangelist. Kept for centuries by the Knights Hospitaller, it was presented to Emperor Paul …
In the Church calendar
8/21 сентября
An ancient Hodegetria icon, said to have been painted by the Evangelist Luke and brought to Rus' in the time of St Vladimir. For centuries it was kep…
In the Church calendar
1/14 мая
A stone-carved icon that appeared on 1 May 1647 to the peasant Andrew near Tsarevokokshaysk (now Yoshkar-Ola). It is also called the Myrrh-bearers' I…
In the Church calendar
25 апреля/8 мая; 17/30 сентября
Two different revered icons of the Mother of God bear this name. One, said to have been painted by the Evangelist Luke, appeared in 1071; the other w…
In the Church calendar
6/19 марта
An ancient wonder-working icon, by tradition painted by the Evangelist Luke; since the late 14th century it has been kept at the Jasna Góra monastery…
In the Church calendar
1/14 сентября
An 18th-century copy of the Chernigov-Ilyinsky icon painted on canvas, which became famous in 1869 for many healings in the cave church of the Gethse…
In the Church calendar
16/29 апреля
A wonderworking icon of the Holy Trinity–St Elijah Monastery near Chernigov, painted in 1658. It became famous in 1662, when it shed tears and the mo…
In the Church calendar
30 октября/12 ноября
A lost icon which showed the Mother of God full-length, crowned and standing on clouds with the Child in her arms. Its feast is kept on 30 October/12…
In the Church calendar
Неделя 7-я по Пасхе
A miraculously revealed icon of the Spaso-Chelnsky Monastery near Trubchevsk: according to tradition, it came floating upstream on the Desna in an un…
In the Church calendar
6/19 марта
An icon that miraculously appeared in the mid-18th century in the Skripitsyn house in Moscow, when a roll of canvas bearing the image fell from the c…
In the Church calendar
8/21 июля; 22 октября/4 ноября
The principal Orthodox shrine of Latvia, found in the mid-17th century in the waters of the Western Dvina. The original was lost after its evacuation…
In the Church calendar
8/21 июня
An ancient icon of the Tenderness (Eleousa) type, brought to Yaroslavl in the 13th century, according to tradition, by the holy princes Vasily and Ko…
In the Church calendar
14/27 октября
An icon that appeared on 14 October 1482 to the youth Cosmas on a tree by the Yakhroma River near Vladimir. On the site, St Cosmas of Yakhroma founde…
Orthodox icon
An image of the Mother grieving at the Cross of her Son or over His body. Unlike narrative Passion icons, it shows the Mother of God without other fi…
Orthodox icon
A modern icon by the icon painter Valentin Yakovlev, first shown in May 2002 at the exhibition “Return to the Truth”.
Orthodox icon
7/20 марта; 29 мая/11 июня
A wonderworking copy of the “Surety of Sinners” icon of the St Nicholas Odrin Monastery, sent to Moscow in 1846. It is kept in the Church of St Nicho…
Orthodox icon
An icon of the Hodegetria type inscribed “The Merciful”. It should not be confused with the famous Kykkos icon “The Merciful”, which is of the Eleusa…
Orthodox icon
28 июля/10 августа
One of the main iconographic types of the Theotokos: the Mother of God holds the Child and points to Him with her hand, as if showing the way to salv…
Orthodox icon
A fresco of the Merciful Mother of God (Eleousa) in the Convent of the Life-giving Spring on Patmos. According to the nuns, in 1956 it vanished from …
Orthodox icon
7/20 апреля; 1/14 мая
According to tradition, this icon appeared in 732 and was later brought from Rome to Russia; Peter the Great is said to have prayed before it after t…
Orthodox icon
One of the main iconographic types of the Mother of God (Greek Eleousa, “Merciful”): She tenderly inclines towards the Child, who presses His cheek a…
