List of all icons of the Blessed Virgin Mary
This list shows only the names of the icons mentioned in the monthly book, as well as locally revered icons for which photographs were found. The names of icons for which there is no image are listed in the list of rare icons of the Virgin Mary.
Icon statuses are explained here.
• Miscellaneous (Mother of God) • Abulskaya Augustovskaya (August Appearance of the Mother of God at War) I Am With You And No One Is Upon You (Leushinskaya) Azovskaya Akathist Akathist Zografskaya (Forerunner) Akathist Akathist Akathist Zografskaya (Forerunner) Akathist Khilandar Aksayskaya Alexandria Altarmaiden (Bematarissa) Andronikovskaya (Greek-Andronikova, Monemvasiyskaya) Antiochian Arapetskaya (Arabian, O All-Sung Mother) Arizona Aristokratsa Armatiyskaya (Amartya) Armenian Arsaniotis (Refuge of Life's Voyages) Athos (Abbess Athos) Akhtyrskaya Akhtyrskaya-Achairskaya Atskurskaya Baybuzskaya Balykinskaya Barlovskaya (Blessed Womb) Barskaya Bakhchisarai (Crimean) Ba Chkovskaya Flight to Egypt Bezhevskaya Belovezhskaya Bialystok Belynichi Belskaya Berdichevskaya Besednaya (Appearance of the Blessed Virgin Mary to Sexton George) Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Behold the Servant of the Lord, without the Archangel) Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Kiev Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Moscow Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Tinos Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Usti female Annunciation of the Most Holy Theotokos of Helikonskaya Gracious Heaven (What We will call you) Blessed (Hodegetria with Christ holding a ball, and her lists and likenesses) Fragrant Color Blessed Womb (locally venerated) Bogolyubskaya Bogolyubskaya Zimarovskaya Bogolyubskaya Prayer for the People (with those coming) Bogolyubskaya Moscow Mother of God and Mary Magdalene Mother of God from the Deesis rank (Peacemaker) Mother of God With a baby (in the Vladimir Cathedral in Kiev), the Mother of God with a baby on the throne (in the iconostasis of the Vladimir Cathedral in Kiev) the Mother of God with the prophets of the Virgin and the Blessed Virgin Virgin Rejoice the Mother of God (the Virgin on the throne) Boretskaya Boroklabovskaya (Barkolabovskaya) Boyan Brail Borshchagovskaya Bugabashskaya Buchinskaya In Sorrow and Sorrow Consolation Valaam Valanasskaya Vardziyskaya Varnakova Vasilkovskaya Vaskovskaya (Yelskaya) Vatopedskaya (Otrada, Consolation, Paramythia) Introduction to the Temple of the Most Holy Theotokos Velizhskaya (Castle) Great Victory Magnifies My Soul of the Lord Venetian Viennese, Which Is Concluded in the Ugra Vertograd ny Eternal Joy To the Elected Voivode Victorious Leaping (Leaping of the Baby) Leaping of the Baby Euchaitic Leaping of the Baby Ugreshskaya Collection of the dead Collection of the dead Belevskaya Collection of the dead Borskaya Collection of the dead Volzhskaya Collection of the dead Zvonarskaya Byzantine Vilna (growth) Vinnitsko-Rozhetskaya Bethlehem Vladi worldly Vladimirskaya Kormyanskaya Vladimirskaya Krasnogorskaya (Chernogorskaya) Vladimirskaya Myrrh-streaming Vladimirskaya Nerekhtaskaya Vladimirskaya Oranskaya Vladimirskaya Ordynskaya-Porechskaya Vladimirskaya Vladimirskaya Vladimirskaya Seligerskaya Vladimirskaya Troyekurovskaya Vladimirskaya Florishchevskaya Vladimirskaya Chuguevskaya Presentation of the Vladimir Icon of the Blessed Virgin Mary Blachernae Georgian Blachernae Miracle of the Water Giver of the Water Blessed Volokolamsk Volynskaya Vorgolskaya Voroninskaya (O digitria Voroninskaya) Resurrecting Russia Education Enlightened the Ecclesiarch Instructor (Key of Understanding, Hodigitria stature) Goalkeeper Uglichskaya (Unquenchable Candle) All-Blessed (Pammakarista) Of All Who Sorrow Joy of All Who Sorrow Joy (in Vologda, located in the prison church) Of All Who Sorrow Joy in St. Petersburg (of Princess Natalia Alekseevna) Of All Who Sorrow Joy Karandeevskaya Of All Who Sorrow Joy of Harbin Of All Who Sorrow Joy with pennies The Tsaritsa ( Pantanassa) Meeting of the Blessed Virgin Mary and the Righteous Elizabeth Vulkaniotissa (Vulcanu) Vutivanskaya Verzareshti Vyazemskaya Ratnaya Gaenatskaya Galata (Galatian) Gelati (Pitsunda) Georgievskaya Georgievskaya Bulgarian Gerbovetskaya Germanovskaya (Yermanskaya) Gerontissa (Gerondissa) Gidlyanskaya (Gidelskaya) ) Golubinskaya Gora Nerukosechnaya Gorbatsevichskaya (Gorbatsevitskaya) Lady of Angels Grebnevskaya Grigoriatskaya Gruzdovskaya Georgian Georgian (in the Raifa desert) Dalmatian (not Dormition) Damascene Damascus Gifts Giving Twenty-palm (Twenty-date) Door of Heaven Devpeteruvskaya Degtyarevskaya (Dekhtyarovskaya) Dektourskaya Demidovskaya Sovereign Tithe Diveevo Divnogorskaya (Sicilian) Didubiy skaya Paten (Zertsalo, Kafreptis) Dneprskaya (Dneprovskaya) Dolinskaya (Dolisskaya) Domnitskaya Donskaya Donskaya - Revealing the Sun Worthyly Is (Merciful) Worthyly Is (Turkish Meriem, in the city of Ierapetra) Tree of Jesse Tree of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Mountain Jerusalem) Dubenskaya (Krasnogorskaya) Dubenskaya (Ostrozhskaya) Dubovichskaya Soul Savior (Psychosostria) Eutropievskaya Egyptian Edessa (Edessa) Oil-flowing (Eleovritissa) Eleusa (Merciful, Tenderness) With Three Eyes Yeletskaya Yeletskaya Argamachenskaya (Vision of the Mother of God Temir-Aksak) Yeletskaya Chernigovskaya Elisavetgrad Woman Clothed in the Sun Life-Giving Source Life-Giving Spring (in the village of Bolshaya Valyaevka) Life-Pleasant (Forerunner) Life Dichinskaya Zhizdrinskaya Passionate (And a Weapon Will Pass Through Your Very Soul) Zhirovitskaya Zabelskaya Zagaetskaya Zagorovskaya Slaughtered Slaughtered Kitaevskaya Zarvanitskaya Zarzmskaya (Laklakidzevskaya) Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary Star of the Blessed Zverinetskaya Zverinetskaya Zinovinskaya Gold Source Sign (Znamenie Novgorod) Sign Abalatskaya Sign Abalatskaya Se Mipalatinskaya Sign of Albazinskaya (Word Flesh Becomes) Sign of Verkhnetagilskaya Viliyskaya Sign Tavern Sign Kursk-Root Sign Logoiskaya Sign Mirozhskaya Sign Morskaya-Kurskaya Sign Pavlovskaya Sign Seraphim-Ponetaevskaya Sign Tsarskoye Selo Sign Iverskaya (Goalkeeper, Portaitissa) Iverskaya (in the Iversky Monastery on Athos) Iverskaya (in the Molchanskaya Sophronium Hermitage) Iverskaya (in Moscow skom Novodevichy monastery) Iverskaya (in the Holy Lake Valdai Monastery) Iverskaya (from the pre-revolutionary chapel on Red Square) Iverskaya (from the village of Lykovo) Iverskaya Anakopia Iverskaya Hawaiian Iverskaya Mozdokskaya Iverskaya Montreal Igorevskaya Jerusalem Jerusalem (in “Rusik”) Jerusalem (in Izmailovo) Jerusalem Copenhagen Jerusalem Krivoyezerskaya Jerusalemskaya (other atypical versions) Jerusalemskaya (with an orb, in Gethsemane, behind the tomb of the Mother of God) Jerusalemskaya (with an orb, scepters, grass) Deliverer Deliverer from Troubles (Tashlinskaya) Ipatmenskaya Isaakovskaya Spanish Kadashevskaya Kazan Kazanskaya (in the village of Velyaminovo) Kazanskaya Bogorodsko -Ufa Kazan Vitebsk Kazan Vysochinovskaya Kazan Vyshenskaya Kazan Vyaznikovskaya Kazan Dunilovskaya Kazan Zhadovskaya Kazan Zaonikievskaya (Vladimirskaya Zaonikievskaya) Kazan Kaplunovskaya Kazan Kargopolskaya Kazan Kasimovskaya Kazan Katashinskaya Kazan Korobeinikovskaya Kazan Nizhnelomovskaya Kazan Penza Kazan Dog Chanskaya Kazanskaya Ploshchanskaya Kazanskaya Puchkovskaya Kazanskaya Sitkha Kazanskaya Stalingradskaya Kazanskaya Tabynskaya Kazanskaya Tambovskaya Kazanskaya Tobolskaya Kazan Chimeevskaya Kazan Shlisselburg Kazan Yaroslavl Kazan Kaluga Kazimirovskaya Kaluga Kamenets Cardiotissa (Heart) Kartushinskaya Kasperovskaya Cassiopeia Kiev-Bratskaya Kizicheskaya Cyprus Cyprus Stromynskaya Cyprus (without throne) Kipyazhskaya Klinskaya Key of Reason (Key of Reason, atypical iconography) Key of Reason Ko Denskaya Kozelshchanskaya Kolodievskaya Kolozhskaya Kolomenskaya Kolochskaya Komotovskaya Konevskaya (Golubitskaya) Coronation of the Blessed Virgin Mary Korsunskaya Korsunskaya (in Suzdal) Korsunskaya (in Usman) Korsunskaya Gorbanevskaya Korsunskaya Izborskaya (Izborskaya Pskovskaya) Korsunskaya Melninskaya Korsunskaya Nezhinskaya Korsunskaya Pechenitskaya (Pechenigovskaya) Korsunskaya Sosnovskaya Korsunskaya Shpilevskaya (Prozrennaya) Korfskaya (Kerkyra) Kostomarovskaya Krasnoilskaya Krupetskaya Ktitorskaya Kukuzelissa Kupyatitskaya Ladinskaya Affectionate Mother Lepavinskaya Lepavinskaya (Lesnyanskaya) Liddaskaya (On the Pillar in Lydda) Liddaskaya (Roman) Limniya Lifinskaya Lomovskaya Loretskaya (Loretskaya) Lubenskaya Luganskaya Luganskaya-Trekhichnaya Lukovskaya Lvovskaya Lyubechskaya Lyublinskaya Lyubyatovskaya Lyadanskaya Magadanskaya Makaryevskaya Makedonitissa Makelarit Issa Maksimovskaya Maria Find Grace From God Marinogorskaya Matelikiyskaya (Metelinskaya) Mati Devo (Mati and Devo) Mati Prayer Service Maherskaya (Knife) Makhrishchskaya Mezherichskaya (Life-Giver) Mezhetskaya Meletinskaya Miasinskaya (Azurovskaya) Mercy Istochniche Gracious (Kykkos, Kikkotissa) Merciful (Hodigitria) Merciful Minsk Myrrh-streaming Romanian Myrtidiotissa (Myrtidi yskaya, Mirtovaya, Chirigiotissa) Mikhailovskaya Mishkovskaya Mammalian Mogilev-Bratskaya Modena (Kosinskaya) Moldavian Molchenskaya (Molchanskaya) Molchenskaya (with St. ap. Jacob Zebedee) Moscow Moscow and All Rus' Mostyshchenskaya Mokhnatinskaya Muromskaya On the Asp and the Basilisk Treading and Crossing the Lion and the Serpent The Hope and Hope of All Nankovskaya Narva Located Above the Gate (Shot through) Do not Cry for Me Mother (Mourning of Christ) Not burned during the fire (in the Hilendar Monastery ) Unsleeping Eye of Spasovo (Savior Unsleeping Eye) Unsleeping Eye Neznanovskaya Nemirovskaya Burning Bush Burning Bush (non-traditional iconography) Unidle Impenetrable Door Unbreakable Wall Unfading Rose Unfading Color Undying Lamp Undying Candle (Abbess of the New Tikhvin Monastery) Undying poured Chalice Unexpected Joy Niamonitissa (Neamonite) Nicene (Thy Womb was the Holy Meal) Nikopea (Victorious) Novodvorskaya (Surazhskaya) Novokaidskaya (Samara) Novonikitskaya Novonyametskaya Novosverzhenskaya Nyametskaya For Sinners Holy Intercessor For the most pure maiden of all generations chosen About You Rejoices in the Embrace of the Father (Ussuriyskaya) Ovinovskaya Fire-like Hodigitria Hodigitria Ab alatskaya (Abalakskaya) Hodegetria Vilna Hodegetria Blachernae Hodegetria Xenofian Hodegetria Sumela (Panagia Sumela) Hodegetria Suprasl Hodegetria Smolensk Hodegetria Donskaya (in the Sophronium Hermitage) Hodegetria Smolenskaya (from Sveaborg) Hodegetria Smolenskaya (which was above the Dnieper Gate, 1602) Hodigitria I Smolensk Baital Hodegetria Smolensk Belgorod Hodegetria Smolensk Vydropusskaya Hodegetria Smolenskaya Gustynskaya (Yarmarkovaya) Hodegetria Smolenskaya Igritskaya (Pesochenskaya) Hodegetria Smolenskaya Iosaphovskaya Hodegetria Smolenskaya Kirillo-Beloezerskaya Hodegetria Smolenskaya Kostroma Hodegetria Smolenskaya Krasnostokskaya Hodegetria Smolenskaya Mglinskaya Hodegetria Smolenskaya Novgorodskaya (“Cholera”) Hodegetria Smolenskaya Olon Etskaya Hodegetria Smolenskaya Polonskaya Hodegetria Smolenskaya Svyatogorskaya (from the Pushkin Mountains) Hodigitria Smolenskaya Sedmiezernaya Hodigitria Smolenskaya Sergievskaya (in the Lavra) Hodigitria Smolenskaya Suerskaya (Yalutorovskaya) Hodigitria Smolenskaya Ternopil Hodigitria Smolenskaya Ustyuzhskaya Hodigitria Smolenskaya Ustyugskaya Hodigitria Smolenskaya Khristoforovskaya Hodigitria Smolenskaya Chubkovichskaya (Chubkovskaya) Hodigitria I Smolenskaya Shuya Hodegetria Smolenskaya Yugskaya Hodegetria Smolenskaya Yaroslavl Hodegetria Smolenskaya Pskov Ozeryanskaya Okovetskaya (Rzhevskaya ) Okonskaya Olympiotissa (Olympic) Onyshkovskaya (Onyshkovetskaya) Oranta Orsha Liberator (Eleftherotria) Ostrobramskaya (Vilna) From the Troubles of the Suffering (Deliverance from the Troubles of the Suffering) The Desperate United Hope Palestine Paliastom (Kutais) Panagia Mikrokastrou Panagia Tu Haru Panagia Fedusa Panagia Yatrissa ( Healer Most Merciful) Paramitia Pasovskaya-Tsaregradskaya Pakhromskaya Perekopskaya Perivlepta Permskaya Petrovskaya Pecherskaya (Kievo-Pecherskaya, Svenskaya-Pecherskaya; with the upcoming Anthony and Theodosius with scrolls) Pecherskaya (with the Kiev-Pechersk miracle workers) Pecherskaya (Svenskaya, with kneeling Anthony and Theodosius of the Pecherskaya and angels) Pechskaya Pimenovskaya Pinskaya Pisarevskaya Pisidianskaya (Pisianskaya) Pitsundskaya (Bichvintskaya) Weeping (Shubinskaya) Plataniotissa Lamentation of the Mother of God ( in the Combs of the Ufa Diocese) Lamentation at the Cross Weeping Romanian (Sokolskaya) Podkubenskaya Podolskaya Pozhaiskaya Intercession of the Most Holy Theotokos Intercession of the Most Holy Theotokos Krasnokholmskaya Intercession of the Most Holy Theotokos Over the Russian Land Patroness of Fishermen (the name is doubtful) Covering (Domodedovo) Covering Us with the Blood of Your Wing Position in the Sepulcher Position Belts of the Holy One Mother of God Position of the Robe of the Most Holy Theotokos Helper in Childbirth (Help to Childbirth) Priestly (Priest) Guarantor (Hermit) Visit of the Most Holy Theotokos to the Holy Mount Athos Praise of the Most Holy Theotokos Pochaevskaya Pochaevskaya Astana Right Handmaiden Pre-harbinger Kostamonite Before Christmas And After Christmas Virgin Addition of Mind (Giver of Mind) Look at Humility Bringing Gifts to the Ever-Virgin Refuge Prosperous (Suceavskaya, Moldavskaya) Pruzhanskaya Prusiotissa (Pirsiotissa) Pryazhevskaya (Gornalskaya) Pryazhevskaya (from the village of Pryazhev) Pskovo-Pokrovskaya (Appearance of the Mother of God to Elder Dorotheus) Pskovskaya Pustynskaya (Patriarchal) Putivlskaya (with angels, ancient) Putivlskaya (with stairs , 19-20 century) Pyukhtitskaya (At the Source) Rakovichskaya Revutskaya Repitskaya Rzhavskaya (Irzhavetskaya, Poltava) Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary Glinskaya (Pustynno-Glinskaya) Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary Isaakovskaya Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary Lukianovskaya Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary Sokolskaya Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary Syamskaya Rozhkovskaya Spas itelnitsa Rostov Rudnenskaya (Rudenskaya) Rudnenskaya Ratkovskaya Rudoselskaya Fleece Irrigated Saidanayskaya Samborskaya Autocratic Self-painted (Prodromitissa, Yasskaya, Moldavian Athos) Light-painted (Light-painted image) Svirskaya St. Anna with the Child Mary Holy Trinity With the Mother of God (Eternal Council) St. Elias St. Cross Svyatogorsk (from Holy Dormition Lavra in Donbass) Holy Belt of the Most Holy Theotokos Holy Belt of the Most Holy Theotokos (discovery of the apostle. Thomas) Seydnaya (Seidanaya) Seven-shot Seven-shot with Jesus (similar to Zhizdrinskaya) Seven Joys of Our Lady of Silouan (Siluam) Zion Syrian (from the Church of St. Mark in Jerusalem) Orphan Sichevach Skitkovskaya Skovorodskaya Skopiotissa Sorrowful Sorrowful (In the Church of the Holy Sepulcher) Mourning for babies, in womb of the slain Mourning Romanian (from the monastery of Sikhastria and her lists) Quick to Hear Nevsky Quick to Hear Sharkanskaya (Rodiginskaya) Skripskaya (near the village of Orchomenos) Sweet Kiss Slovenian Snetogorskaya Sobolevskaya Cathedral of the Theotokos Icons (Multipart Icon of the Blessed Virgin Mary) Four-Part Icon of the Blessed Virgin Mary Cathedral of the Blessed Virgin Mary Sokalskaya (Sokolskaya ) Consolation Solar Sophia - Wisdom of God (Kiev) Sophia - Wisdom of God (atypical iconography) Sophia - Wisdom of God (Novgorod) Sokhomskaya (Sikhomskaya) Salvation in the Waters Savior of the Drowning (Lenkovskaya) Spileotissa (Cave, in the Agrafa monastery) Spileotissa (Cave, in Mega Spileon monastery) Sporuchnitsa Khlebov Sporuchnitsa Sinners Sporuchnitsa Sinners (in Moscow, in the church of St. Nicholas, in Khamovniki) Consort of Sinners Koretskaya Stavropol Starorusskaya Starchitskaya Stockholm Sufferer Passionate Passionate Lipetskaya Suknevichskaya Sumorinskaya Totemskaya Surdegskaya Suho-Kaligorskaya (Moshnogorskaya) Tadulinskaya Tambovskaya (Utkinskaya) Tervanskaya Tervenicheskaya Terebenskaya (Terebinskaya) Terebovlskaya Tikhvinskaya Quiet Vinskaya (in the Resurrection Church of Novgorod) Tikhvinskaya (in Dankovskaya) Tikhvinskaya (In St. Isaac's Cathedral) Tikhvinskaya (from the Borisov Hermitage) Tikhvinskaya Bolkhovskaya Tikhvinskaya Ipatievskaya Tikhvinskaya Tearbreaker (in the Ilyinsky Skete on Athos) Tikhvinskaya Bread (Baked) Tikhvinskaya Civilskaya Appearance of the Tikhvin Icon of the Mother of God to fishermen on Lake Tolga Solemnity of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Port- Arturskaya) Toropetskaya Three Joys Trigorskaya Triletnaya Tripiti Three-handed Three-handed Beloberezhskaya Throne Alexander-Svirskaya Trooditissa (Troodosskaya) Trubchevskaya Tumbovskaya Tupichevskaya Turkovitskaya Fat Mountain You Are the Vine Grape Tenderness (Eleusa) Tenderness (from the village of Bialystok) Tenderness (shoulder-shaped version) Tenderness Belozerskaya Tenderness Galichskaya (Ch Ukhlomskaya , Gorodetskaya) Tenderness Novgorodskaya Tenderness Pskov-Pecherskaya Tenderness Svyatogorskaya (from the Pushkin Mountains) Tenderness Sebezhskaya (Opochetskaya) Tenderness Solovetskaya Tenderness Seraphimo-Diveevskaya Tenderness Seraphimo-Diveevskaya Lokotskaya Tenderness Smolenskaya Tenderness Rostovskaya Softening of Evil Hearts Softening of Evil Hearts (Myrrh Stream) ivaya, "Sofrino") Softening Evil Hearts (atypical iconography) Softening of Evil Hearts (list from Rudno-Częstochowa) Softening of Evil Hearts, Sorrowful (option with one knife) Hope of All Ends of the Earth Ural Uryupinsk Hearer (Hearer) Dormition of the Blessed Virgin Mary Dormition of Adrianovskaya Dormition Dalmatian Dormition Kiev-Pechersk Dormition ene Maleviyskaya (Panagia Malevi) Assumption of the Pskov-Pechersk Assumption Pyukhtitsky Assumption Semihodnaya Sederteor thunder quenching my sorrows, my sorrows (Odigitria Rostov) Falkovichi (Falcovitskaya) Faneri (revealed) Theodorovskaya Theodorovskaya (in the Ascension Orshin of the Tver Diocese) Feodorovskaya (G. Feodorovskaya (G. Feodorovskaya ( Syzran) Feodotyevskaya Filermskaya Chalkopratiyskaya (Agiosoritissa) Khakhulskaya Khlynovskaya Kholmskaya Chrysafitissa Tsarevokokshaiskaya (Myrrhnositskaya) Tsaregrad Healer Healer Kiselevskaya Tsesarskaya (Caesarskaya) Tsesarskaya Borovskaya Tsilkanskaya (Tsiklanskaya) Chainichskaya (Chainichka Krasnitsa) Cup of Patience Che Tya Narechem Chen Stochowskaya Czestokhovskaya Tyvrovskaya Chernigovskaya Gethsemane Chernigovskaya Ilyinskaya Most Honest Cherubim I Most Glorious Seraphim Chetvertinovskaya Chirskaya (Pskovskaya) Chislenskaya Cholskaya (Chelnskaya) Shestokovskaya (Sheltomezhskaya) Ekonomics (House-Builder) Yurovichskaya Merciful Appearance of the Most Holy Theotokos to Alexander Svirsky Appearance of the Most Holy Theotokos to the Apostle Andrew on the Kiev Mountains (Vision to the Apostle Andrew the First-Called of the Mother of God on the Pechersk Mountains) Appearance of the Most Holy Theotokos town of Athanasius of Athos Appearance of the Most Holy Theotokos in the city of Arkhangelsk in 1919 Appearance of the Most Holy Theotokos to John of Kronstadt Appearance of the Most Holy Theotokos to Cornelius of Komel Appearance of the Most Holy Theotokos on Mount Pochaev Appearance of the Most Holy Theotokos to the Venerable Dositheus Appearance of the Most Holy Theotokos to the Venerable Kirill of Belozersky in the Simonov Monastery Appearance of the Most Holy Theotokos to the Venerable Seraphim of Sarov Appearance of the Most Holy Theotokos Holy Mother of God to St. Sergius Radonezh Appearance of the Blessed Virgin Mary to St. Equal to the Apostles Nina Appearance of the Most Holy Theotokos to Schema nun Anthony Appearance of the Most Holy Trinity and the Mother of God the Savior in Kosin Appearance of the Yug Icon of the Mother of God to the Venerable Dorotheus Like the Wings of an Eagle Yakobstadt Yanoborskaya Yaroslavl Yaroslavl (Pecherskaya) Yaski Yastrebskaya (Arakiotissa) Yakhromskaya (Yakhremskaya, Akhrenskaya)
Virgin Mary and her earthly journey
The Blessed Virgin Mary was a girl from Nazareth. The story of her conception of her Son is amazing. Without the participation of an earthly man, through the Holy Spirit, a new life was born in her womb. Thus, the Blessed Virgin became the mother of Jesus Christ. She is one of the most revered saints in the Christian religion. All believers worship the image of the Mother of God depicted on icons. There are hundreds of them in Christian churches. Some of them are more common, such as Kazanskaya or Iverskaya, but few have heard of others. The latter includes the Triflant icon.
Story
An old legend tells that during the construction of this monastery, which was previously built half a kilometer further, the first miracle happened. One night, all the construction equipment, along with the icon, disappeared. This loss was found the next morning; everything was at the current location of the temple. A similar incident was repeated several times and people realized that the icon of the Mother of God “Gerontissa” wanted her temple to be built on this rock.
One Saracen, during a raid on this location, wanted to light a cigarette, breaking this icon into small pieces, but for his blasphemy, he immediately went blind. The Saracens decided that they needed to get rid of the icon and threw it into the well. There she remained for eighty years. The blind barbarian, realizing his terrible sin, just before his death, ordered his servants to return to this place and tell the monastery servants where the long-lost image was located. The missing item was found and it was solemnly brought into the temple.
Why is the icon prohibited for distribution in the diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church?
The ban on its use and distribution is due to the fact that it is not an Orthodox icon. She is seen as just a picture of a little girl. From the point of view of icon painting, it does not coincide with canonical models and is completely unconventional. The blue tunic on the girl is the only attribute taken from iconography.
On traditional Orthodox icons, the Mother of God, regardless of age, is depicted with her head covered. According to some clergy, this presentation lacks many details that reflect the essence of the events taking place. The Triflant Icon, the meaning of which is ambiguous for Orthodox Christians, reflects the age of the Mother of God, but the spiritual beauty, according to many, is not fully shown on it. The calling of iconography is to reveal the height and greatness of the feat of the Mother of God, her spiritual maturity, and only traditional Orthodox icons fulfill this mission in full. The Triflant Icon has little relation to icon painting in its traditional sense. She gets out of the general mainstream.
We understand the canon as a diagram. But the Byzantines thought differently
Icon of Theophanes the Greek “Our Lady of the Don”.
Reproduction by RIA Novosti They understood the canon as the image to which this or that image goes back. This is a completely different methodology, a different type of consciousness. A modern standard icon painter, when, say, he is commissioned for the image of “Tenderness,” rushes to a set of diagrams that appears in Rus' at the end of the 16th century, that is, very late. He finds the “Tenderness” diagram there, transfers this diagram to the board and then colors this image on the board. This is one technique, not at all Byzantine.
Another technique is described by Epiphanius the Wise when he talks about the work of Theophanes the Greek in the Moscow Kremlin. Epiphanius the Wise observed and talked with the great Byzantine master during this work. He specifically emphasizes that Theophanes the Greek does not look at any samples at all.
“When he was drawing or writing all this, no one saw him ever look at the samples, as some of our icon painters do, who, out of lack of understanding, constantly peer at them, moving their gaze from here to here, and not so much paint with paints as look at the samples."
The Byzantine icon painter has no samples. He doesn't have plans in his head. He has images in his head.
This Byzantine approach struck me at the time when I saw a workshop in the Serbian monastery of Vysoki Decani in Kosovo. In the era of tragedies, the separation of Kosovo and Albanian nationalist aggression, a group of wonderful monks came there and began to revive ancient traditions, chants, and icon painting in this terrible environment.
This is a special feat of our days, which few people know about. They created an icon-painting workshop where they tried to revive the traditions of Byzantine icon painting. I saw there how a modern icon painter works. He works like a Byzantine master. This icon painter painted an icon of Christ. Next to his easel, on which stood a board, were five or six reproductions of different images of Christ, starting with the Sinai Pantocrator and up to the image of the 15th century. Masterpieces of Byzantine art. Looking at these different images, inspired by them, he painted a completely different one - his own.
This is approximately what Byzantine artists did, only most of the major masters had these images in their heads. What kind of literal or formal canon can we talk about here?
— So it’s not a matter of not “going beyond”, it’s a matter of wanting to come into contact with a revered image?
— This is the desire to completely and deeply retell the image that you have in your mind and soul, and thereby create new value. This does not require schemes or exotic plots. The plot and all sorts of entertaining narrative details arise when the spiritual essence is lost. As compensation.
“But everyone knows exactly how the Mother of God should be depicted.” The maforium is crimson, the tunic is blue, the hair is hidden, and there are three stars on the maforium. That’s how it’s supposed to be...
— Who is it supposed to be? These are all convenient fictions for craftsmen. I don't mean anything offensive. This is for the art industry. But leading modern icon painters, and thank God we have such, icon painters-artists solve their artistic problems and can do it in different ways. This will be a recognizable image of the Virgin Mary. And it will even be clear what type this image belongs to. But at the same time, all these details, details can be infinitely different. This is a Byzantine tradition.
General details of the image
On the canvases of the icon of the Virgin Mary, there are common features of the image. Her hair is hidden under a cape (maforia) hung over her shoulders. This was done because in ancient times, in Israel, this was a mandatory requirement for a woman’s appearance. According to tradition, this cape is red, so that all people remember that She herself is from the royal family, and this also reflects the great suffering that the Mother of God endured. The lowest layer of clothing is depicted in blue, denoting the heavenly purity and perfection of the Mother of God. Icon painters thus show her connection with God.
It is difficult to ignore the description of the symbolism of the icon of the Virgin Mary, which means and reveals the full depth of meaning of the drawing. When studying Christian traditions, the image of the Mother of God is understood not only as a specific person, but as the entire church as a whole.
The image of the sleeves on the Virgin’s clothing is made in the form of handrails, that is, the traditional attire of all clergy. The Virgin Mary, with the entire church, calls to serve together with Christ, who is the very first priest. The image of stars on the shoulders and head of the Mother of God speaks of her divinity and purity. It is also considered a symbol of the unity of the Trinity. In many countries around the world, entire temples have been erected in honor of the Virgin Mary, which can be visited by anyone. In some of these churches there are icons that work miracles, helping those in need who turn to them.
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The Triflant Icon: what do they pray for before it?
Since the image of the little girl depicted on this icon is associated with motherhood, the prayers that arise at the sight of her correspond to this feeling. Most often, women turn to her who really want to get pregnant and give birth to a child, but for some reason they are unable to do so. It is this icon that touches the most intimate feelings in their soul, and they believe that when they turn to the Most Holy Theotokos through this image, their prayers will certainly be heard. This image is also popular among established mothers with small children. In this case, mothers ask for health, chastity and long life for their babies. They especially like to place the “Three-year-old” at the head of the crib, because they believe that then their children will be under the protection of the Most Holy Theotokos, and she will protect them from all troubles.
