Icons of the Mother of God

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Icon of the Mother of God “The Life-Giving Spring” in Bolshaya Valyaevka

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According to tradition, this icon of the Life-Giving Spring was found in the late 17th century at a spring below the hill where the village of Bolsha…

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Icon of the Mother of God “Life-Receiving” (Antiphonitria)

21 января/3 февраля

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A fresco icon of the Mother of God on the north outer wall of the katholikon of Vatopedi on Mount Athos; by tradition a voice from it stopped Princes…

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Zhydychyn Icon of the Mother of God

A revered early 18th-century icon of the Mother of God in the Church of St Nicholas in the village of Zhydychyn, Volhynia — formerly the church of th…

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Zhizdra Passion Icon of the Mother of God

13/26 августа

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An ancient wonderworking icon from the cathedral of Zhizdra, also called “A Sword Shall Pierce Through Thy Own Soul”; the original is lost, and a new…

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Zabely Icon of the Mother of God

Неделя Белорусских святых (3-я по Пятидесятнице); 6/19 декабря

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A 17th-century wonder-working icon painted on ox-hide from the village of Zabely near Slutsk; the original was lost, and a recreated copy is kept in …

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Zagaitsy Icon of the Mother of God

в первое воскресенье после Успения Пресвятой Богородицы

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A locally venerated wonder-working icon of the Monastery of St John the Merciful in the village of Malye Zagaitsy near Ternopil; according to traditi…

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Zagorov Icon of the Mother of God

8/21 сентября

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The wonder-working icon of the Zagorov Monastery of the Nativity of the Theotokos in Volhynia, said to have been brought by monks from Kiev in the 13…

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Icon of the Mother of God “Esphagmeni” (“The Slain”)

21 января/3 февраля

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A wonderworking icon of Vatopedi Monastery on Mount Athos. It received its name after a monk struck the face of the Mother of God with a knife in a f…

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Kitaev Icon of the Mother of God “Esphagmeni” (the Slain)

21 января/3 февраля

A venerated copy of the Vatopedi icon “Esphagmeni” (the Slain) from Mount Athos, kept at the Kitaev Hermitage in Kyiv since the late 1990s.

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Zarvanytsia Icon of the Mother of God

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A revealed icon which, according to tradition, was found around 1240 by a hermit monk in the forest where the village of Zarvanytsia in Galicia now s…

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Zarzma Icon of the Mother of God

A Georgian repoussé icon made at Zarzma Monastery in the 1020s, one of the oldest surviving images of the Mother of God of the Tenderness (Eleousa) t…

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Icon of the Conception of the Most Holy Theotokos

9/22 декабря

A feast icon of the conception of the Virgin Mary by the righteous Joachim and Anna. The feast is kept on 9 December (Old Style), nine months before …

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Icon of the Mother of God “Most Radiant Star”

A Murom icon of about 1700 showing the Mother of God and Child in a radiant glory, with the saints of Murom at Her feet. It is kept in the Murom Muse…

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Zverinets Icon of the Mother of God

13/26 октября

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A small ancient icon on an iron plate, found in the late 19th century in the cave cell of St Clement in the Zverinets Caves of Kyiv.

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Zimne Icon of the Mother of God

24 сентября/7 октября

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An icon of Greek workmanship which, according to tradition, was brought to Rus’ in 988 by Princess Anna, the bride of Prince Vladimir. It is one of t…

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Zinovin Icon of the Mother of God

в День Святого Духа

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A wonderworking icon from the village of Zinovitsy (now Shevchenko) in the Vinnytsia region, showing the Mother of God with closed eyes. The future A…

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Icon of the Mother of God “Chrysopigi” (Golden Spring)

Вознесение Господне

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A wonderworking icon in a church on a windswept cape of Sifnos in the Cyclades, said to have been found floating on the waves of the bay. Its main fe…

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Semipalatinsk-Abalak Icon of the Mother of God of the Sign

21 июля/3 августа; 10/23 декабря

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A copy of the wonderworking Abalak icon of the Sign, painted by the same iconographer to be carried in processions through Siberian towns. According …

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Logoisk Icon of the Mother of God “of the Sign”

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An ancient revered icon of the Mother of God “of the Sign” from Logoisk near Minsk; in 1907, after years in a private collection, it was solemnly ret…

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Pavlovsk Icon of the Mother of God “of the Sign”

27 ноября/10 декабря

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An image of the Mother of God “of the Sign” engraved on a mother-of-pearl seashell, found in Azov in 1696 after its capture by Peter I and later kept…

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Iveron Icon of the Mother of God at the Molchensk Sofroniev Hermitage

31 марта/13 апреля; вторник Светлой седмицы

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A wonderworking copy of the Iveron Icon brought to the Molchensk Sofroniev Hermitage in 1713 by Lukian Konstantinov, ataman of Sumy. The original dis…

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Iveron Icon of the Mother of God at the Novodevichy Convent

13/26 ноября

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A copy of the Iveron Icon of Mount Athos, painted on the Holy Mountain at the request of the future Patriarch Nikon and brought to Moscow in 1648. It…

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Iveron Icon of the Mother of God from the Iveron Chapel in Moscow

12/25 февраля

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The Iveron icon from the chapel at the Resurrection Gate of Kitai-gorod, one of the most venerated holy images of pre-revolutionary Moscow. Its origi…

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Iveron Icon of the Mother of God of Anacopia

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A modern icon recalling the ancient image of the Mother of God “not made by hands” in the fortress of Anacopia, through prayer before which an Arab s…