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
15/28 августа
A wonder-working icon of the Vladimir type from the Dormition Cathedral of Rostov the Great; according to the Kiev Caves Patericon, one of seven icon…
In the Church calendar
7/20 декабря
The cell icon of St Nilus of Stolobny, a copy of the Vladimir icon that he brought to Stolobny Island on Lake Seliger; it is celebrated on the day of…
In the Church calendar
15/28 августа
One of the copies of the Blachernae Icon of the Mother of God venerated in Georgia; it is kept at the Kvabtakhevi Monastery near Mtskheta.
In the Church calendar
3/16 марта
A copy of the Vladimir icon with Sts Cyprian and Gerontius, Metropolitans of Moscow, painted in its margins. It was brought to the Joseph-Volokolamsk…
In the Church calendar
15/28 июня
A Smolensk-type Hodegetria icon which, according to tradition, appeared in 1518 in a forest near Cherepovets. The Voronino Dormition hermitage grew u…
In the Church calendar
1/14 сентября
An exact copy of the ancient Pammakaristos icon of the Patriarchate of Constantinople, sent to Kazan in 1905 by Patriarch Joachim III after the theft…
In the Church calendar
23 июля/5 августа
A wonder-working St Petersburg icon glorified in 1888, when lightning struck its chapel: the icon was unharmed and brightened, and small copper coins…
In the Church calendar
19 ноября/2 декабря
An ancient folding icon, the cell icon of the founder of the Russian St Andrew's Skete on Mount Athos. It became known in Russia in 1863 in the town …
In the Church calendar
15/28 августа
A wonder-working icon which, according to tradition, belonged to the holy Georgian Queen Tamar and was kept at the Gelati (Gaenati) Monastery near Ku…
In the Church calendar
4/17 июля
An icon from Constantinople named after the Galata district, where a monastery dedicated to it existed until the 17th century. A revered copy is kept…
In the Church calendar
1/14 октября
A family heirloom of the Albaduev family, given to the Gerbovets Monastery in Bessarabia in 1790. After many healings it was officially recognised as…
In the Church calendar
4/17 апреля; 2/15 декабря
A wonderworking icon of the Pantokrator Monastery on Mount Athos. It is called Gerontissa (“the Eldress”, “the Abbess”) because a voice from the icon…
In the Church calendar
28 июля/10 августа
A wonderworking icon presented to Grand Prince Dmitry Donskoy by the Don Cossacks of the town of Grebni after the Battle of Kulikovo in 1380.
In the Church calendar
29 февраля/13 марта (в невисокосные годы — 28 февраля/13 марта)
An icon which, according to tradition, appeared on 29 February 1392. Its best-known wonder-working copy is the cell icon of St Pitirim of Tambov, kep…
In the Church calendar
5/18 февраля
A wonderworking icon of the Dormition Monastery of Divnogorye on the Don which, according to tradition, was brought from Sicily, hence its second nam…
In the Church calendar
8/21 сентября
A wonder-working icon that appeared in the late 17th century in a poplar tree by the Domnitsa river near Chernihiv, restoring sight to a blind girl; …
In the Church calendar
в Преполовение Пятидесятницы
The principal shrine of the Krasnogorsky Convent of the Protection in the Cherkasy region of Ukraine. According to tradition, the icon appeared on an…
In the Church calendar
11/24 января; местно — 26 августа/8 сентября
A locally venerated icon from the cathedral of Elets, said to have appeared in 1060 and regarded as a later copy of the Elets-Chernigov icon. Elets a…
In the Church calendar
5/18 февраля
A revealed icon found in 1060 on a fir tree near Chernigov: according to tradition, St Anthony of the Kiev Caves saw it shining, and the Yelets Dormi…
In the Church calendar
21 мая/3 июня; 23 июня/6 июля
A copy of the Vladimir icon which appeared in 1588 near Vologda to the blind villager Hilarion. Healed, he founded the Zaonikievo Monastery on the si…
In the Church calendar
20 июля/2 августа; 27 ноября/10 декабря
A wonder-working icon of the Sign with St Nicholas and St Mary of Egypt at the sides, painted in 1637 after visions granted to the pious widow Maria …
In the Church calendar
9/22 марта
A great shrine of the Amur region, the icon “The Word Was Made Flesh” depicts the Christ Child within His Mother's womb. It is named after the Russia…
In the Church calendar
27 ноября/10 декабря
A wonderworking icon of the Mother of God of the Sign, kept in Verkhny Tagil since the 18th century and widely venerated in the Middle Urals.
In the Church calendar
четверг перед днём Святой Троицы
A wonderworking icon of the Sign that appeared in 1889 in a peasant house in the village of Viliya in Volhynia. It is kept in the local Church of St …
