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Icon "The Appearance of the Mother of God to the Apostle Andrew on the Hills of Kiev"
A narrative image connected with the tradition that the Apostle Andrew visited the hills above the Dnieper where Kiev later grew.
Icons of the Mother of God
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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Icon “The Appearance of the Most Holy Theotokos to St Athanasius of Athos”
The icon depicts the appearance of the Mother of God to St Athanasius of Athos, founder of the Great Lavra, when in a time of famine he set out to le…
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Icon of the Apparition of the Mother of God in Arkhangelsk in 1919
An icon commemorating the apparition of the Mother of God with the Christ Child in the sky over Arkhangelsk on 3 August 1919, witnessed by seven chil…
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Icon “The Appearance of the Most Holy Theotokos to St John of Kronstadt”
An icon devoted to the appearances of the Mother of God to St John of Kronstadt, which he described himself in his own writings.
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Icon “The Appearance of the Most Holy Theotokos to St Cornelius of Komel”
A narrative icon depicting the appearance of the Most Holy Theotokos to St Cornelius of Komel, founder of the Komel Monastery near Vologda.
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Icon “The Appearance of the Most Holy Theotokos on Mount Pochaiv”
An icon depicting the appearance of the Mother of God on Mount Pochaiv in 1240, after which a healing spring began to flow from the imprint of her fo…
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Icon “The Appearance of the Most Holy Theotokos to St Dositheus”
19 февраля/4 марта
The icon depicts the appearance of the Most Holy Theotokos to the young Dositheus in Gethsemane, after which he left worldly life and became a discip…
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Icon “Apparition of the Mother of God to St Cyril of Belozersk at the Simonov Monastery”
An 18th-century icon showing how the Mother of God, during St Cyril's prayer at the Simonov Monastery in Moscow, showed him the way to the White Lake…
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Icon “The Appearance of the Most Holy Mother of God to St Seraphim of Sarov”
An icon depicting the appearance of the Most Holy Mother of God to St Seraphim of Sarov, whom the Queen of Heaven visited and healed many times.
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Icon of the Appearance of the Most Holy Theotokos to St Sergius of Radonezh
An icon depicting the appearance of the Most Holy Theotokos, with the Apostles Peter and John, to St Sergius of Radonezh, and her promise never to ab…
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Icon of the Appearance of the Most Holy Theotokos to St Nino, Equal-to-the-Apostles
14/27 января
An icon depicting the vision of St Nino: the Mother of God gives her a cross of grapevine and sends her to preach in Georgia.
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Icon “The Appearance of the Tikhvin Icon of the Mother of God to the Fishermen on the Lake”
A narrative icon depicting the miracle of 1383, when the Tikhvin icon of the Mother of God appeared to fishermen on Lake Ladoga, carried through the …
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Icon “The Appearance of the Yug Icon of the Mother of God to St Dorotheus”
An icon depicting how the wonder-working Yug icon of the Mother of God was revealed to St Dorotheus, a schemamonk of the Pskov Caves Monastery, in th…
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Yanobor Icon of the Mother of God
Неделя Всех святых (1-е воскресенье после Троицы)
A little-known image commemorated on All Saints’ Sunday and found on composite icons of the Mother of God from the 18th century onwards. It resembles…
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Yaskinskaya Icon of the Mother of God
3/16 мая
- Wonderworking
- Revealed
Two wonderworking icons of the Mother of God bear this name. The one commemorated on 3 (16) May is said to have appeared in Constantinople in 682 and…
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Arakiotissa Icon of the Mother of God (“of the Hawk”)
9/22 июля
- Revealed
A Cypriot icon which, according to tradition, was found in a thorny thicket where a local prince's hunting hawk had become entangled. A church and a …
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Icon of the Mother of God “Great Victory”
A modern icon brought to St Petersburg in 2011, depicting the appearance of the Mother of God to Metropolitan Elias of the Mountains of Lebanon.
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Icon of the Mother of God “Of the Blessing of the Waters”
A modern and still little-known icon of the Mother of God, painted with the blessing of the elder Archpriest Nikolai Guryanov; the four Evangelists a…
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Icon of the Mother of God “Eternal Joy”
An image known from the icon in the Church of the Resurrection in Tarashcha, Kyiv region. According to its legend, it is connected with an 18th-centu…
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Vyazma Icon of the Mother of God “Of the Host”
A modern icon painted in memory of the soldiers who fell near Vyazma in 1941–1943, with the blessing of Schema-Archimandrite Mikhail (Balaev), a vete…
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Don Icon of the Mother of God “Revealing the Sun”
A modern, locally venerated icon of Krasnodon: a variant of the Don Icon with a coal mine and miners depicted below. It expresses the hope of rescue …
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Icon of the Mother of God “The Sign” of the Sea (Kursk)
A modern icon of the Sign painted in memory of the crew of the submarine Kursk and of all who perished at sea. Since 2003 it has been in the St Nicho…
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Luhansk Three-Faced Icon of the Mother of God
An early 20th-century icon from Luhansk associated with the locally revered Elder Philip. Long thought to be lost, it was found again in recent years.
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Icon of the Mother of God “Mother of Humility”
A modern icon of the Mother of God created in spring 2021 at the Church of the Exaltation of the Cross in Tbilisi, dedicated to humility as the chief…