Icons of the Mother of God

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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In the Church calendar

Akhtyrka Icon of the Mother of God

2/15 июля

  • Wonderworking
  • Revealed

A wonderworking icon found in the grass in 1739 by Fr Vasily Danilov, a priest in Akhtyrka. It shows the Mother of God praying before the crucified C…

In the Church calendar

Bakhchisaray Icon of the Mother of God

15/28 августа

  • Wonderworking
  • Revealed

A wonderworking icon said to have appeared in a mountain gorge near Bakhchisaray in the Crimea, where the Dormition Skete arose; it was also called t…

In the Church calendar

Reigning Icon of the Mother of God

2/15 марта

  • Wonderworking
  • Revealed

Revealed on 2 (15) March 1917, the day Emperor Nicholas II abdicated, in the Church of the Ascension at Kolomenskoye. It shows the Mother of God enth…

In the Church calendar

Icon of the Mother of God “The Unburnt Bush”

4/17 сентября

  • Wonderworking

A symbolic icon expressing the Old Testament prefiguration of the Theotokos — the bush that burned but was not consumed; it is popularly venerated as…

In the Church calendar

Icon of the Mother of God “Unexpected Joy”

1/14 мая; 9/22 декабря

  • Wonderworking

An icon showing a sinner kneeling in prayer before an image of the Mother of God. Its subject is the account by St Dimitry of Rostov of the miraculou…

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Pechersk Icon of the Mother of God (Kiev Caves)

3/16 мая

  • Wonderworking
  • Revealed

The Mother of God enthroned with the Christ Child and the kneeling Saints Anthony and Theodosius of the Kiev Caves. According to tradition, in 1085 t…

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Yaroslavl Pechersk Icon of the Mother of God

14/27 мая

  • Wonderworking

A wall image of the Kiev Caves icon of the Mother of God in a church of the bishop's residence in Yaroslavl, which became known in 1823 when a gravel…

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Georgian Icon of the Mother of God

22 августа/4 сентября

  • Wonderworking

A wonder-working icon carried off from Georgia by the Persians in 1622, ransomed by a Russian merchant and brought in 1629 to the Chernogorsky (Krasn…

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Zhyrovichy Icon of the Mother of God

7/20 мая

  • Wonderworking
  • Revealed

One of the principal shrines of Belarus: in 1470 the icon appeared to shepherds on a pear tree near Zhyrovichy. It is kept in the Dormition Monastery…

In the Church calendar

Icon of the Mother of God “The Merciful” (Kykkotissa)

12/25 ноября; 26 декабря/8 января

  • Wonderworking

An icon traditionally ascribed to the Apostle Luke. After long wanderings from Egypt to Constantinople, it has been kept since the early 12th century…

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Minsk Icon of the Mother of God

13/26 августа

  • Wonderworking
  • Revealed

An ancient icon traditionally attributed to St Luke; kept in Kiev for some five centuries, it miraculously appeared in the Svislach river in Minsk in…

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Passion Icon of the Mother of God

13/26 августа

  • Wonderworking

A wonderworking icon on which two angels hold the instruments of Christ's Passion. In 1641 it was brought to Moscow, where the Passion (Strastnoy) Mo…

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Iveron Icon of the Mother of God (Mount Athos)

12/25 февраля; 13/26 октября; вторник Светлой седмицы

  • Wonderworking
  • Revealed

The original Iveron icon, kept at the Iveron Monastery on Mount Athos and the prototype of its many copies. Scholars date it to the first half of the…

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St Peter's Icon of the Mother of God

24 августа/6 сентября

  • Wonderworking

An icon painted by St Peter, later Metropolitan of Moscow, while he was an abbot in Volhynia. According to tradition, through this image the Mother o…

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Svensk (Pechersk) Icon of the Mother of God

3/16 мая; 17/30 августа

  • Wonderworking
  • Revealed

The Mother of God enthroned with the Christ Child, with Sts Anthony and Theodosius of the Kiev Caves standing on either side. In 1288 the icon, sent …

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Icon of the Mother of God “Surety of Sinners”

7/20 марта; 29 мая/11 июня

  • Wonderworking

An icon named after its inscription “I am the Surety of sinners before My Son”: the Mother of God stands guarantor for sinners before Christ. It was …

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Icon of the Mother of God “Assuage My Sorrows”

25 января/7 февраля

  • Wonderworking

A wonder-working icon brought to Moscow by Cossacks in 1640 and glorified by many miracles in the 18th century, especially during the plague of 1771;…

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Atskuri Icon of the Mother of God

15/28 августа

  • Wonderworking

One of the most ancient shrines of Georgia, believed by tradition to be an image not made by hands brought to Iberia by the Apostle Andrew the First-…

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Kasperov Icon of the Mother of God

29 июня/12 июля; 1/14 октября; среда Светлой седмицы

  • Wonderworking

A wonderworking icon that was miraculously renewed in 1840 on the estate of the landowner Kasperova and became a great shrine of Kherson and Odessa. …

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Kiev-Bratsk Icon of the Mother of God

10/23 мая; 2/15 июня; 6/19 сентября

  • Wonderworking
  • Revealed

A wonderworking icon that appeared in 1654 in Vyshgorod. To save it from the Tatars it was set afloat on the Dnieper and drifted to Kyiv, where it wa…

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