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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An ancient icon of the Tenderness type saved from the iconoclasts in the 9th century: cast into the sea, it miraculously appeared at the Athonite Mon…
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An icon of the enthroned Mother of God with St Joasaph of Snetogorsk and the holy prince Dovmont of Pskov kneeling before Her. It is linked with the …
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20 ноября/3 декабря
A wonder-working icon that, according to tradition, appeared near Kyiv on 20 November 1282; a 19th-century copy is kept in the Museum of Icons of the…
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A type of multi-part icon that gathers miniature images of many revered icons of the Mother of God, each with its title.
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26 декабря/8 января
The icon of the feast which the Church celebrates on the second day of the Nativity of Christ, glorifying the Mother of God who gave birth to the Sav…
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An image of the Mother of God called “Of the Sun”, known from a 19th-century Russian icon.
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Icons inscribed “Sophia, the Wisdom of God” whose iconography matches neither the Kiev nor the Novgorod type of this image.
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An icon of the Mother of God known only by name, which appears on multi-panel icons of the Theotokos from the 18th century onwards.
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An icon of the Mother of God known as “Salvation in the Waters”. Its origin is unknown.
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A modern copy, made in 2000, of an ancient Moscow icon of the Mother of God “Tenderness” from the first quarter of the 13th century.
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29 июня/12 июля
A wonderworking icon found in the mid-17th century on a tree in the forest near Starchitsy in the Slutsk district; the Starchitsy Monastery grew up o…
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13/26 ноября
An icon brought from Stockholm to Tikhvin in 1678; its story is bound up with the Tikhvin icon, the protectress of Russia in its wars with Sweden.
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13/26 августа
An ancient wonder-working icon of the Mother of God “of the Passion” from the Nativity Cathedral in Lipetsk; in 1831, after it was carried in process…
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27 июня/10 июля
An icon which, according to tradition, appeared in the 17th century on a pear tree at Suknevichi in the Grodno region; removed after the church was c…
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A wonder-working icon from the village of Sukha Kalyhirka in the Cherkasy region, popularly called “the Merciful”. The original was stolen in the 196…
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A wonderworking icon painted in 1743 and given by the Ogiński princes to the Dormition Monastery at Tadulino near Vitebsk. Its iconography is close t…
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13/26 февраля
An ancient icon of the Mother of God about which almost nothing is known. According to tradition, it appeared on 14 May 892; its feast is kept on 13/…
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A venerated copy of the Kasperov icon that became the holy image of the Protection Convent at Tervenichi in the Leningrad region. Healings take place…
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An ancient wonderworking icon from the Galician town of Terebovlia which, according to tradition, protected it from the Tatars in 1651 and from the T…
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11/24 мая
A revealed wonderworking Tikhvin icon of the Holy Trinity Optina Monastery in Bolkhov, one of the most venerated shrines of the Oryol land. According…
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A copy of the Tikhvin icon given by Count Boris Sheremetev to the Borisovka Tikhvin Convent in Kursk province (now Belgorod region) at its founding. …
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An icon which, in 1643, the Novgorod merchants Dimitry and Vasily Voskoboynikov, saved from shipwreck, bought from a Latin priest on Berezovy Island …
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26 июля/8 августа
An 18th-century wonder-working copy of the Tikhvin icon, glorified in St Petersburg in 1858, the year St Isaac's Cathedral was consecrated, and trans…
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A wonderworking Tikhvin icon that appeared in the town of Dankov (Ryazan province) in the early 19th century, when the townspeople were delivered fro…
