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.
Found: 737
In the Church calendar
16 февраля/1 марта; 20 апреля/3 мая; 9/22 июля; день Святой Троицы
The Mother of God enthroned with the Child among angels; by tradition the icon appeared on Cyprus in 392. In Russia the best-known copy is the one at…
In the Church calendar
12/25 января
A shrine of Mount Athos showing the Virgin nursing the Christ Child. By tradition St Sabbas the Sanctified bequeathed it to St Sava of Serbia, who br…
In the Church calendar
20 июня/3 июля
An icon in the Western style which, according to tradition, was brought from Modena in Italy and given by Peter the Great to the church in the villag…
In the Church calendar
12/25 апреля
An ancient icon brought from Kyiv to Murom by St Constantine of Murom at the beginning of the 12th century. It is linked with the miracle of St Basil…
In the Church calendar
29 мая/11 июня
A wonder-working image in Western style showing the Mother of God bending over the sleeping Christ Child; it is kept in the Transfiguration Cathedral…
In the Church calendar
Неделя Всех святых
An 11th-century mosaic of the Mother of God Orans in the apse of St Sophia's Cathedral in Kyiv. It is called the “Unbreakable Wall” because it surviv…
In the Church calendar
20 декабря/2 января
According to tradition, this icon was painted in Volhynia in the early 14th century by St Peter, later Metropolitan of Moscow. The original was lost …
In the Church calendar
15/28 августа
An icon given, according to tradition, to the boyar John Ovinov by two radiant youths at the gates of the St Nicholas monastery on Lake Galich; it is…
In the Church calendar
28 июля/10 августа
One of the foremost holy icons of the Russian Church: according to tradition it was painted by St Luke the Evangelist, brought to Rus' from Byzantium…
In the Church calendar
6/19 июня
A Byzantine icon of the Hodegetria type, said to have been brought from Constantinople to Moscow by Metropolitan Pimen; it became famous for streamin…
In the Church calendar
2/15 июля
An icon given in 1661 by Pope Alexander VII to Krzysztof Pac, Chancellor of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, which became famous at the Pažaislis Monast…
In the Church calendar
18 июня/1 июля
A revered icon of the Puhtitsa Dormition Convent in Estonia depicting the appearance of the Mother of God at the spring on Puhtitsa hill. It belonged…
In the Church calendar
13/26 августа
An image of the Theotokos pierced by seven arrows, a symbol of the fullness of the sorrows foretold by St Simeon. It was found on the bell-tower stai…
In the Church calendar
16/29 апреля
A wonder-working icon of Tambov, glorified when a gravely ill man, told in a dream to pray before it, was healed. Its feast was instituted by the Hol…
In the Church calendar
8/21 августа
A revealed icon of the Mother of God that appeared in 1314 to Bishop Prokhor of Rostov in a pillar of fire on the bank of the Volga near Yaroslavl; t…
In the Church calendar
15/28 августа; в День Святого Духа
A wonderworking icon from the Tupichev Monastery of the Holy Spirit near Mstislavl in Belarus, also called Semigorodnaya. It is now kept in the Cathe…
In the Church calendar
Неделя Всех святых (1-е воскресенье после Троицы)
A symbolic image of the heart of the Mother of God pierced by seven arrows, after the prophecy of St Simeon the God-Receiver. It is closely related t…
In the Church calendar
8/21 июня
An icon that appeared in 1827 on a tree near the Cossack stanitsa of Uryupinskaya on the Khoper river. Since 1854 it has been in the Church of the Pr…
In the Church calendar
2/15 июля
A holy icon of the Ryazan land that appeared in 1483 near the village of Feodotievo. It became known for many healings, especially during the plague …
In the Church calendar
18 сентября/1 октября
The icon shows the Mother of God at the bedside of a sick cleric whom She healed. A wonderworking copy became famous in the late 18th century at the …
In the Church calendar
15/28 августа
An ancient Georgian icon, by tradition dating from the time of St Nino, Enlightener of Georgia. It is named after the church in the village of Tsilka…
In the Church calendar
16/29 июля
A shrine of Pskov, glorified in 1420 during a pestilence, when tears flowed from the eyes of the Mother of God on the icon. After it was brought to P…
In the Church calendar
1/14 сентября
The icon commemorates the appearance of the Mother of God to Russian soldiers near Augustow on the night of 1/14 September 1914, early in the First W…
In the Church calendar
12/25 января
A revered icon of the Serbian Hilandar Monastery on Mount Athos that miraculously survived a fire in 1837; it takes its name from the Akathist to the…
