Icons of the Mother of God
Icon of the Mother of God of Pskov “the Protection”
The Feast of the Pskov-Protection Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos was established in memory of the miraculous deliverance of Pskov from the invading troops of the Polish king Stephen Bathory in 1581. During the siege, they carried forth the wonderworking Dormition Icon of the Mother of God in…
Icon of the Mother of God “O All-Hymned Mother”
The Icon “O All-Hymned Mother” derives its title from the thirteenth Kontakion of the Akathist to the Most Holy Theotokos. “O All-Hymned Mother who bore the Word, holiest of all the saints....” The Mother of God wears a crown, and clasps Her child to Her breast with both…
Icon of the Mother of God “Tenderness” from Pskov-Pechersk
The October 7 Feast of the “Tenderness” Icon (May 21) was established in memory of the deliverance of Pskov from the invasion of Napoleon in 1812.
Icon of the Mother of God “Assuage My Sorrow”
Today we commemorate a copy of the “Assuage My Sorrows” Icon (January 25) which is treasured in the St Nicholas Odrino Monastery in the Orel Diocese, Karachev district. Until 1784, this icon belonged to Count Nicholas Borisovitch Samoilov, who regarded it as a holy icon. At first, it…
Icon of the Mother of God “Korsun” (Cherson)
The Korsun Icon of the Mother of God is believed to be one of those painted by the holy Evangelist Luke, and it had been preserved in Ephesus. On October 9, 988, a copy of this icon was transferred from Korsun to Kiev by the holy Great Prince Vladimir (July 15), and it came to be called the Korsun…
Icon of the Mother of God “Of The Akathist” or Zographou
The Zographou Icon “Of the Akathist” is not to be confused with the Hilandar Icon “Of the Akathist” (January 12).
Icon of the Mother of God “Jerusalem”
The Jerusalem Icon of the Mother of God, by tradition, was painted by the holy Evangelist Luke fifteen years after the Ascension of the Lord at Gethsemane. In the year 463, the icon was transferred to Constantinople. The Byzantine army carried the Jerusalem Icon into battle when they turned back…
Icon of the Mother of God of Rudensk
The Rudens Icon of the Mother of God appeared in the year 1687 in the Rudno locale of Mogilevsk diocese. In 1712 the icon was transferred to the Florovsk Ascension monastery in Kiev, where now it is located.
Translation of the Filemsk Icon of the Mother of God
The Philermos Icon of the Mother of God is from Mount Philermos on the Greek island of Rhodes.
Translation of the Iveron (Iberian) Icon of the Mother of God to Moscow
The Iveron Icon of the Mother of God, located on Mount Athos, has been glorified by many miracles. Accounts of the wonderworking image were spread throughout Russia by pilgrims. His Holiness Patriarch Nikon (then still Abbot of the Novospasky monastery) asked Abbot Pachomius of the Iveron Monastery…
Icon of the Mother of God “Of The Seven Lakes”
The Seven Lakes Icon of the Mother of God was brought from Ustiug near Kazan on October 13, 1615 by the monk Euthymius, founder of the Seven Lakes Mother of God monastery. He blessed the place of the future monastery with this icon. Feastdays of the Seven Lakes Icon were established in memory of…
Icon of the Mother of God of Yahromsk
The Yakhrom Icon of the Mother of God appeared to the holy youth Cosmas (February 18), while he was accompanying his master, a sick landowner. Cosmas had stopped at the bank of the Yakhrom River, not far from Vladimir, and the sick man fell asleep. Cosmas suddenly saw a bright light coming from a…
Icon of the Mother of God the Multiplier of Wheat
The Icon of the Mother of God, the “Multiplier of Wheat”, was painted at the blessing of the Elder Ambrose (October 10) of the Visitation Optina wilderness monastery. St Ambrose, a great Russian ascetic of the nineteenth century, was ardent with a childlike faith towards the Mother of…
Icon of the Mother of God the “Deliveress”
The “Deliverer” Icon of the Mother of God, before being brought to the New Athos Simono-Kananitsk monastery in the Caucasus, was on Mount Athos with a brother of the Russian St Panteleimon monastery, Schemamonk Martinian (+ 1884). The pious schemamonk had received this icon from the…
Icon of the Mother of God “In Giving Birth, You Preserved Your Virginity”
The Icon of the Mother of God “In Giving Birth, You Preserved Your Virginity” (“A Virgin Before Birth and After Birth”) was transferred to the Nikolaev Peshkov monastery of Moscow diocese by the Moscow merchant Alexis Grigorievich Mokeev. Around the year 1780 Alexis joined…
Commemoration of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God and the deliverance from the Poles
The Commemoration of the Deliverance of Moscow From the Poles by the Kazan Icon was established in gratitude for the deliverance of Moscow and all Russia from the incursion of the Polish in 1612. The end of the sixteenth and beginning of the seventeenth centuries is known in Russian history as…
Icon of the Mother of God of Andronikov
The Andronicus Icon of the Mother of God was a family icon of the Byzantine emperor Andronicus III. In 1347 he gave the icon to the Monemvasia monastery at Morea in the Peloponnesos. From here the image was sent to Russia in 1839. In 1877 the holy icon was placed in a temple of the Kazan…
Icon of the Mother of God “The Joy of All Who Sorrow”
The wonderworking “Joy of All Who Sorrow” Icon of the Mother of God was glorified in the year 1688. Euphymia, the sister of Patriarch Joachim (1674-1690), lived at Moscow and suffered from an incurable illness for a long time. One morning during a time of prayer she heard a voice say,…
Icon of the Mother of God of the “Sign”
The main commemoration of the Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos “Of the Sign” is November 27.
Icon of the Mother of God of Ozerensk
The Ozeryanka Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos is from an area near Kharkov, and is of the Hodigitria type.