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Matelikiyskaya Icon of the Mother of God
29 мая/11 июня
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An ancient icon of the Mother of God which, according to tradition, appeared in 991. Its feast is kept on 29 May/11 June.
Wonderworking and revered icons of the Most Holy Theotokos: the story of each icon, its feast days in the Church calendar, and images.
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29 мая/11 июня
An ancient icon of the Mother of God which, according to tradition, appeared in 991. Its feast is kept on 29 May/11 June.
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An icon of the Eleousa (Tenderness) type, with the faces of the Mother and Child tenderly turned towards each other.
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20 апреля/3 мая
An ancient wonderworking icon of the Machairas Monastery in the Troodos Mountains of Cyprus, found in a cave in 1145. It is named “Of the Knife” afte…
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An icon from the Monastery of St Stephen of Makhrishchi, dated to the first third of the 15th century: the Mother of God with the Child, Archangel Ga…
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вторник перед Вознесением Господним
A 14th-century wonderworking icon which, according to tradition, the Ostrogski princes received from the Ecumenical Patriarch and later gave to the H…
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26 февраля/11 марта
An icon which appeared near Kyiv in 1492 and became known for many miracles. The Mother of God is shown crowned, holding the Child on Her left arm.
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26 марта/8 апреля
An icon known mainly from descriptions and from small border scenes on multi-part icons of the Mother of God. Its name is linked to the city of Melit…
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12/25 ноября
An image close to the “Merciful” icon but mirrored: the Christ Child reaches out to His Mother with both hands.
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The icon of the Mother of God “Source of Mercy”. Its veneration is linked with a stone bearing a footprint which, according to tradition, was left by…
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24 ноября/7 декабря
A myrrh-streaming icon of the Mother of God from Transylvania, painted in 1681; in the late 17th century healing tears of myrrh flowed from it for 26…
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The protectress of the Greek island of Kythira: according to tradition, a shepherd found the icon in a thicket of myrtle. It is kept in the monastery…
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23 августа/5 сентября
A locally venerated wonder-working icon in the baroque style from the village of Bolshaya Pisarevka (Kharkov province), named after the St Michael ch…
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A revered icon from the village of Mishkovka near Starodub, glorified by the healing of its owner's failing eyesight; on the advice of St Demetrius o…
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19 марта/1 апреля
A wonderworking icon of Mogilev, glorified in 1655 when Polish troops under Prince Radziwiłł besieged the city: during the siege tears flowed from th…
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13/26 марта
An image mentioned on old engravings under 13 March and associated with the Moldavian Monastery of the Saviour and St Nicholas in Mykolaiv. It is som…
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A rare variant of the Molchensk icon in which the Mother of God and the Child turn towards the Apostle James, son of Zebedee, standing before them.
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A modern icon painted for the Church of St Andrew the First-Called and the Prophet Elijah in the village of Mostyshche after a revelation received by…
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A locally venerated icon of the Chernihiv region, regarded as miraculously revealed, which became famous in 1691 in the village of Mokhnatyn. In comp…
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A rare 18th-century icon showing the Mother of God trampling the powers of evil; its title comes from Psalm 90 (91). Only one icon bearing this inscr…
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A wonder-working fresco of the Mother of God in the Monastery of St Nicholas on the Greek island of Andros. According to accounts, it weeps whenever …
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28 июля/10 августа
An icon revealed in 1690 in the village of Nankovo in Transcarpathia, known as the Weeping icon: according to tradition, an accidental lash of a whip…
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5/18 июня
An icon above the outer gate of Vatopedi Monastery on Mount Athos, also called “the Shot-Through”: according to tradition, a Turkish soldier fired at…
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29 мая/11 июня
A symbolic image: the Child Christ reclines on a couch while the Mother of God and angels holding the instruments of the Passion stand by, showing th…
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1/14 сентября
A locally venerated icon of the Mother of God from the village of Neznanovo near Nerekhta, known since 1814; its veneration was revived in 2009.