Icons of the Mother of God

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Panagia Fidousa Icon of the Mother of God (Our Lady of the Snakes)

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A wonderworking icon in the Church of the Dormition in the village of Markopoulo on the island of Kefalonia, Greece. Its name means “of the snakes”: …

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Icon of the Mother of God “Panagia Iatrissa” (The Healer)

A Greek icon of the Mother of God the Healer associated with the town of Loutraki: a devout woman brought it back from a pilgrimage to Jerusalem as a…

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Icon of the Mother of God “Paramythia”

A 14th-century Cypriot icon of the Mother of God kept in the Byzantine Museum of Paphos. The Greek word paramythia means “consolation”.

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Pasovo (Constantinople) Icon of the Mother of God

17/30 сентября

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An icon of unusual iconography, long venerated in the Kursk region: the Child seems to be climbing up to press His cheek to His Mother’s. In 2003 it …

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Pakhra Icon of the Mother of God

3/16 декабря

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An icon that appeared on 3 December 1472 on the Pakhra River near Moscow. The chronicle records that blood miraculously flowed from it.

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Perekop Icon of the Mother of God

9/22 мая; 29 июня/12 июля

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A wonderworking icon from the Church of the Nativity of the Mother of God in Varva (now Chernihiv region, Ukraine). According to tradition, in 1709 t…

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Icon of the Mother of God "Peribleptos"

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The image goes back to the revered icon of the Peribleptos Monastery in Constantinople, founded in the 11th century. The original perished; a copy su…

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Perm Icon of the Mother of God

4/17 июля

An icon of the Mother of God mentioned in pre-revolutionary Church reference books, with its feast on 4/17 July. Almost nothing is known of its origi…

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Pechersk Icon of the Mother of God with the Wonderworkers of the Kyiv Caves

An 18th-century Russian icon developing the Pechersk Icon of the Mother of God: a whole assembly of saints of the Kyiv Caves is depicted together wit…

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Pec Icon of the Mother of God

An ancient revered icon of the Serbian Church kept at the convent of the Patriarchate of Pec in Kosovo. According to Serbian tradition, it was brough…

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Pinsk Icon of the Mother of God

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A wonder-working icon of the Mother of God from the Monastery of the Theophany in Pinsk.

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Pisarevka Icon of the Mother of God

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A shrine of the Vinnytsia region: a revealed icon found floating in a well in the village of Pisarevka in the 18th century.

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Pitsunda (Bichvinta) Icon of the Mother of God

A chased gilded-silver icon, one of the most venerated Orthodox treasures of Abkhazia; according to its inscription, it was made in 1568 for Catholic…

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"Weeping" Icon of the Mother of God (Shubino)

14/27 июня

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The chief shrine of the Dormition Church in the village of Shubino: an image, rare in Orthodox tradition, of the Mother of God lamenting over Christ …

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Plataniotissa Icon of the Mother of God

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A wonder-working imprint of an icon of the Theotokos inside the hollow of an old plane tree in the Peloponnese, said to have appeared after monks res…

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Icon of the Mother of God “Lamentation at the Cross”

A symbolic icon of the grief of the Mother of God at the Cross of her Son, surrounded by the instruments of the Passion.

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Podkubenskaya Icon of the Mother of God

An early 14th-century icon from the village of Kubenskoye near Vologda, regarded as a copy of the Tolga Icon. The Christ Child holds the edge of His …

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Podolskaya Icon of the Mother of God

23 августа/5 сентября

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A wonderworking icon in the Church of the Dormition in Zhytomyr, Ukraine. A procession with the icon through the city is credited with delivering Zhy…

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Icon of the Mother of God “Protectress of Fishermen”

An Arabic icon of the Antiochian Orthodox Church: the Mother of God shelters a boat of praying people, an image of the Church sailing across the sea …

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Krasnye Kholmy Icon of the Protection of the Mother of God

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A wonderworking image of the Mother of God associated with a holy spring in the village of Krasnye Kholmy in the Voronezh region. According to local …

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Icon “The Protection of the Most Holy Mother of God over the Russian Land”

An icon of the Protection in which the Mother of God spreads Her veil over the Russian land with its recognisable holy places. It is kept in the Chur…

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Icon of the Mother of God "The Protecting"

6/19 марта

The cell icon of Schema-Abbess Tamar (Mardzhanishvili), founder of the Seraphim-Znamensky Skete near Moscow. The Mother of God covers the Child with …

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Icon of the Mother of God “Cover Us with the Shelter of Thy Wings”

A Petrine-era icon of rare iconography: the winged Mother of God spreads Her protecting mantle over the righteous. The image combines the themes of t…

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Icon of the Entombment

An icon of the Gospel events of Holy Friday — the taking down of the Saviour's body from the Cross and His burial, with the Mother of God mourning He…