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.
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во второй четверг по Пятидесятнице (в Польской Православной Церкви)
The principal shrine of St Nicholas Cathedral in Białystok, venerated by the Polish Orthodox Church; it was painted after the model of the wonder-wor…
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12/25 февраля; 13/26 октября; вторник Светлой седмицы
A wonderworking icon which, according to tradition, Sophia Palaiologina brought from Italy to Moscow in 1472. In the late 15th century it was taken t…
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A wonder-working icon from Berdychiv venerated by both Orthodox and Catholic Christians. The original apparently perished in a fire in 1941; a copy i…
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25 марта/7 апреля
An image of the Annunciation in which the Virgin is shown alone, without the Archangel Gabriel, at the moment she accepts the good news. Such icons a…
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An ancient wonderworking icon of the Annunciation kept in the Monastery of the Annunciation on the slopes of Mount Helicon in Greece.
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30 января/12 февраля
An icon of the Annunciation found buried on the Greek island of Tinos in 1823 after the Mother of God appeared to the nun Pelagia. It is one of the m…
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An icon close in composition to the “Unfading Flower”: the Mother of God with the Child holds a blossoming branch. In the early 20th century one such…
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8/21 мая
A locally venerated icon of the Mother of God, a variant of the “Helper in Childbirth” type. Its feast is kept on 8/21 May.
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A variant of the Bogolyubovo icon in which kneeling saints and people pray before the Mother of God as She intercedes before Christ. Such images were…
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The Mother of God from the Deesis tier of the iconostasis: without the Child, she stands turned towards Christ in prayer, interceding for mankind.
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An icon depicting the Most Holy Mother of God together with St Mary Magdalene, Equal-to-the-Apostles.
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Viktor Vasnetsov's image of the Mother of God with Child in the altar apse of St Vladimir's Cathedral in Kyiv. Its origin is linked with a likeness s…
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Viktor Vasnetsov's icon of the Mother of God enthroned with the Christ Child in the iconostasis of St Volodymyr's Cathedral in Kyiv, to the left of t…
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An icon showing the Old Testament prophets Moses, Aaron, Isaiah and Jacob beside the Mother of God and the Christ Child.
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A multi-figure icon showing the Mother of God together with holy women glorified by the Orthodox Church.
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An icon named after the opening words of the best-known prayer to the Mother of God, “Rejoice, O Virgin Theotokos”.
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An iconographic type in which the Mother of God with the Christ Child is seated on a throne likened to the altar table, an image of the Church celebr…
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9/22 мая
A wonderworking icon which, according to local tradition, appeared to a blind man on a pine tree near the village of Borki in present-day Belarus. Th…
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12/25 сентября
An icon painted in 1991 for the Church of the Nativity of the Theotokos in the village of Boyany in Bukovina. In 1994 the Synod of the Ukrainian Orth…
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10-я пятница по Пасхе
A wonder-working icon from the village of Borshchagovka near Kyiv, which once belonged to the Kyiv Brotherhood of the Theophany. It is celebrated on …
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24 ноября/7 декабря
A stone-carved icon of the Smolensk type which, according to local tradition, appeared in the Chuvash village of Bugabash in the second half of the 1…
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A wonderworking icon that appeared in the 18th century, kept in the St Nicholas Church in the village of Buchyn in Volhynia and venerated across the …
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15/28 августа; понедельник Светлой седмицы
An ancient Cypriot icon of the Hodegetria type, dated by specialists to the late 12th century and venerated as wonder-working. It is kept in the Chur…
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A Georgian icon of the Mother of God named after Vardzia, the cave monastery in southern Georgia.
