Icons of the Mother of God

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Damascene Icon of the Mother of God

4/17 декабря

According to tradition, this icon was painted by St John of Damascus in the 8th century in thanksgiving to the Mother of God for the healing of his s…

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Damascus Icon of the Mother of God

9/22 февраля

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An image known only from mentions on old engravings, according to which it appeared in Damascus on 9 February 732. Its appearance and present whereab…

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Eikosiphoinissa Icon of the Mother of God (Of the Twenty Palms)

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A wonderworking icon, venerated as not made by human hands, kept at the Greek Monastery of the Theotokos Eikosiphoinissa on the slopes of Mount Panga…

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Icon of the Mother of God “Door of Heaven”

An icon in the State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow; a Lenten hymn calling the Mother of God the Door of Heaven is written in ornamental script on its mar…

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Degtyaryovka Icon of the Mother of God

23 июля; в десятую пятницу по Пасхе

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A locally venerated wonderworking icon from the village of Degtyaryovka near Novhorod-Siverskyi in the Chernihiv region. It is revered as a protector…

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Dektour Icon of the Mother of God

в Неделю Всех святых

An image of the Mother of God whose history has not survived; it appears among the border scenes of multi-part icons of the Theotokos. It is celebrat…

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Demidov Icon of the Mother of God

An icon connected with the Demidov family of Ural industrialists: the verse inscription on its frame asks the Mother of God to protect Nikita Demidov…

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Tithe Icon of the Mother of God

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According to Church tradition, an image going back to the Evangelist Luke, brought by Prince Vladimir from Korsun to the Church of the Tithes in Kyiv…

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Diveyevo Icon of the Mother of God

An image of the Mother of God as Protectress of the Seraphim-Diveyevo Convent. She is shown full-length, sometimes enthroned with Saints Anthony of t…

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Didube Icon of the Mother of God

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A venerated image of the Mother of God which, according to tradition, appeared in the Didube field in Tbilisi. The Church of the Didube Mother of God…

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Dnieper Icon of the Mother of God

A variant of the Korsun icon of the Mother of God of the Eleusa (Tenderness) type, known from Old Believer copies since the late 18th century.

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Dolinskaya (Dolis) Icon of the Mother of God

13/26 февраля

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An image of the Mother of God with the Child on her left arm, His face turned away from her; it is linked with a story about a stone image of the Vir…

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Icon of the Mother of God "It Is Truly Meet" ("Turkish Meryem")

11 июня (предположительно)

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A copy of the wonder-working icon "It Is Truly Meet" which, according to tradition, could not be destroyed with an axe during the Chios massacre; aft…

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Icon of the Mother of God “Tree of Jesse”

2/15 июля

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An icon of Christ's genealogy through the Theotokos: a tree with the ancestors of the Saviour grows from the breast of the reclining Jesse. In Greece…

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Icon “The Tree of the Most Holy Theotokos”

A symbolic icon on which the venerated icons of the Mother of God appear as fruits on the branches of a flowering tree growing from the Nativity of C…

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Dubovichi Icon of the Mother of God

13/26 сентября; в десятую пятницу по Пасхе

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A revealed icon which, according to tradition, was found in the grass on the bank of the Ret River near the village of Dubovichi in the mid-16th cent…

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Icon of the Mother of God “Saviour of Souls” (Psychosostria)

An ancient Byzantine image after which a monastery in Constantinople was named. The Constantinople icon is lost, but an ancient two-sided icon of the…

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Eutropius Icon of the Mother of God

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An icon known only from a written account of a miracle; it is first named in “The Most Radiant Sun”, a manuscript collection compiled in Moscow in 17…

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Egyptian Icon of the Mother of God

11/24 января

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An ancient wonder-working icon whose appearance is dated to 1060. Its distinctive feature is the open scroll in the hand of the Christ Child.

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Edessa Icon of the Mother of God

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An icon from a church in Edessa before which St Alexius the Man of God prayed; a voice from it ordered him to be brought into the church. It was take…

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Icon of the Mother of God “Oil-Streaming” (Elaiovrytissa)

17/30 ноября

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A wonderworking icon of the Vatopedi Monastery on Mount Athos, standing in the monastery storeroom. It became famous for the miraculous multiplicatio…

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Yelets-Argamach Icon of the Mother of God

A revered image painted in Yelets in 1735 in memory of the retreat of Tamerlane (Temir-Aksak) in 1395. According to tradition, the Mother of God appe…

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Elisavetgrad Icon of the Mother of God

14/27 июля

A locally venerated icon of Elisavetgrad (now Kropyvnytskyi, Ukraine), lost after 1922 and recreated in the 1990s from a drawing found in an archive.…

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Icon of the Mother of God “The Woman Clothed with the Sun”

An allegorical image of the Mother of God as the “woman clothed with the sun” from the Revelation of St John: the Virgin with the Child stands on a c…