Icons of the Mother of God

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Krasnostok Icon of the Mother of God

7/20 октября

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• Myrrh-streaming

A wonder-working, myrrh-streaming Hodegetria icon of the Krasnostok Convent in the Grodno region; by tradition a gift of Prince Urusov, it became ren…

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Mglin Icon of the Mother of God “Hodegetria of Smolensk”

2/15 марта; 28 июля/10 августа

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• Revealed

A revealed Hodegetria icon of the Mother of God, found by shepherds beneath an ancient oak near Mglin (now Bryansk Region) in 1662.

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Smolensk Icon of the Mother of God “Hodegetria” of the Dnieper Gate (1602)

28 июля/10 августа

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The Smolensk Hodegetria icon placed in 1602 above the Dnieper Gate of the Smolensk fortress. In 1812 it accompanied the Russian army and was carried …

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Smolensk Hodegetria Icon of the Mother of God of Novgorod

3/16 июля

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• Revealed

A 14th-century fresco of the Smolensk Icon that came to light from under fallen plaster in a Novgorod church during the cholera epidemic of 1831. Aft…

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Olonets Smolensk Icon of the Mother of God “Hodegetria”

28 июля/10 августа; 20 ноября/3 декабря

A revered Smolensk Hodegetria icon in the Karelian town of Olonets, where a legend tells how the Mother of God delivered the town from plague.

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Smolensk-Polonskaya Icon of the Mother of God

28 июля/10 августа

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• Revealed

A Smolensk icon of the Mother of God from the Verkhovye churchyard in the Kostroma region; according to tradition it miraculously brought a Russian s…

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Pskov Smolensk Icon of the Mother of God (Hodegetria)

28 июля/10 августа

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A copy of the Smolensk Hodegetria glorified in Pskov in 1650, when tears flowed from its eyes three times. It was venerated in the Church of St Sergi…

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Suerka Smolensk Icon of the Mother of God “Hodegetria”

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A wonderworking copy of the Smolensk Icon painted in the 18th century at the Rafailov Monastery at the command of the Mother of God during an epidemi…

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Ternopil Icon of the Mother of God “Hodegetria”

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A copy of the Smolensk Hodegetria which began to shed tears during Lent 1730 in the house of Vasily Markevich, a townsman of Ternopil. That same year…

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Ustyug Smolensk Icon of the Mother of God “Hodegetria”

28 июля/10 августа

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A copy of the Smolensk Hodegetria sent in 1290 by the princes of Rostov to the Dormition Cathedral of Veliky Ustyug. According to the chronicle, the …

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Smolensk Icon of the Mother of God “Hodegetria” of Chubkovichi

10/23 августа

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• Revealed

A Smolensk-type icon found by haymakers on an oak stump beside a spring that suddenly appeared near the village of Chubkovichi in the Bryansk region.…

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Panagia Soumela Icon of the Mother of God (Hodegetria)

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• Revealed

An ancient icon traditionally attributed to St Luke, the holy treasure of Sumela Monastery on the Black Mountain near Trebizond, founded in the 4th c…

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Okona Icon of the Mother of God

30 июля/12 августа

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An icon of Georgian origin which, according to tradition, came from Jerusalem. The Georgian Prince Georgy Alexandrovich brought it to the village of …

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Icon of the Mother of God Olympiotissa

5 октября?

• Wonderworking
• Revealed

A small ancient icon of the Mother of God, miraculously found by a shepherd and kept in the Olympiotissa Monastery in Elassona at the foot of Mount O…

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Onyshkivtsi Icon of the Mother of God

14/27 сентября; День Святого Духа

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A wonderworking icon from the village of Onyshkivtsi in Volhynia, painted on canvas in 1825. It was kept in a chapel over a spring, built in thanksgi…

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Icon of the Mother of God “Orans”

One of the oldest images of the Mother of God, standing with hands raised in prayer; it gave its name to a whole type of Marian iconography.

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Icon of the Mother of God “Eleftherotria” (Liberatrix)

15/28 августа

The Greek icon of the Mother of God “Eleftherotria” (Liberatrix); its best-known image is kept in Jerusalem, in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.

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Icon of the Mother of God “Deliverance of the Suffering from Troubles”

Неделя Всех святых

An icon whose name expresses the faith that the Mother of God delivers from troubles and misfortunes all who turn to Her in prayer; it is celebrated …

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Icon of the Mother of God “In Thee Rejoiceth”

An icon glorifying the Mother of God after the hymn “All of creation rejoices in thee”: the Virgin enthroned in Paradise amid a host of saints.

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Palestinian Icon of the Mother of God

A very rare variant of the image of the Theotokos in old Russian iconography, which reached Russia in the 16th–17th centuries, presumably from the Ho…

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Paliastomi Icon of the Mother of God

An old Georgian icon of the Mother of God with the Child, named after the fortress town of Paliastomi in Guria and later kept in Kutaisi.

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Icon of the Mother of God “Panagia Krini”

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A wonder-working icon of the Mother of God on the Greek island of Kefalonia, found in 1720. It is known for the miracle of the lilies: dry stems brou…

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Icon of the Mother of God “Panagia Mikrokastrou”

15 августа (по новому стилю)

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A wonderworking icon of the Mikrokastro Monastery near Siatista in Western Macedonia, Greece, probably dating from the 12th–13th century. Thousands o…

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Panagia tou Harou Icon of the Mother of God

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A wonder-working icon on the Greek island of Lipsi in which the Mother of God holds not the Christ Child but the Cross with the crucified Saviour. It…