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Showing posts with label Icon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Icon. Show all posts
Tuesday, August 1, 2023

AUGUST 1 - Commemorating the Icon of the Holy Mother of God "Tenderness"

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  The icon of the Mother of God "Tenderness" Serafimo-Diveevskaya was a cell image of St. Seraphim of Sarov. With oil from the lam...
Saturday, July 22, 2023

At the Source Icon

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The history of the revered icon of the monastery of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Pyukhtitsy - the image of the Mother of God...
Sunday, May 22, 2022

Icon of Sts. Constantine and Helen June 3/ May 21

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Thursday, May 19, 2022

The Icon of the Mother of God "Grieving for the babies in the womb of the slain"

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The history of prayer and icons. The icon of the Mother of God "Grieving for the babies in the womb of the slain" The icon of the ...
Tuesday, September 21, 2021

Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos

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  Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos. XVI century., Stavronikita monastery, Holy Mount Athos Author: Theophanes of Crete
Friday, September 10, 2021

The Blessing of the Priests mural

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The Blessing of the Priests The mural depicts Joachim and Anna calling the priests to bless their one-year-old daughter. (Kaisariani Monaste...
Friday, September 3, 2021

Appearance of the Light-Painted image of the Most Holy Theotokos on Mount Athos in the Russian Saint Panteleimon Monastery (1903) commemorated Sept. 3/Aug. 21

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We venerate thy Most Pure Image, Blessed One, asking for protection for us, Mother of God, for thou voluntarily expressed mercy to appear am...
Tuesday, August 24, 2021

Icon of the Mother of God "Infant Leaping"

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Icon of the Mother of God "Infant Leaping" also called Mother of God "Leaping with Joy" commemorated Nov. 20/Nov. 7 This...
Friday, July 30, 2021

The miraculous icon of the Mother of God, called Joy and Consolation. One of the seven miraculous icons of the Vatopedi monastery.

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Monday, July 26, 2021

The miraculous icon of the Mother of God "Three-handed"

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Before the icon they pray for protection from enemies who threaten the well-being in the house. They ask for healing of diseases of the hand...
Monday, June 28, 2021

Icon of the Mother of God "Gerontissa" Mt. Athos

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The icon of the Mother of God Gerontissa (which means "eldress", "overseer") is one of the most revered shrines of the H...
Thursday, June 24, 2021

Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos "Surety of Sinners" in Koretsk (1622) June 24/ June 11

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                                      Miracle-working icon at Holy Trinity monastery Korestsk The ancient icon of the Mother of God "Su...
Tuesday, June 8, 2021

Ascension icon explained

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Forty days after Christ’s resurrection, He was taken up into the Heavens before the disciples, and so forty days after Easter,  is the  Feas...
Tuesday, June 1, 2021

"Self-Written" Icon of the Mother of God

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  The "self-written" icon of the Mother of God is located in the skete of St. John the Baptist Lavra of St. Athanasius on Mount At...
Saturday, April 17, 2021

Most Holy Theotokos "The Unfading Flower" (April 16/April 3)

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The icon first appeared in Greece in the 17th century.  The plot for her writing was the lines from the Akathist to the Theotokos, in which ...
Friday, February 19, 2021

Didactic Icons

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Didactic Icons: The icon of the Publican and the Pharisee is what is called a didactic, or “teaching”, icon. The main difference between th...
Friday, January 8, 2021

The Garden of the Virgin

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Monday, January 4, 2021

The Theophany icon explained

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  The Baptism of Christ, the Theophany icon explained: Theophany which literally means a “revelation of God” in Greek (Θεοφάνεια; the Russia...
Monday, December 28, 2020

Our Lady of Bethlehem. The icon that smiles and shines.

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Among the many and varied relics and spiritual treasures that one finds in the majestic Basilica of the Nativity in Bethlehem , a special p...
Wednesday, December 9, 2020

Even the most formidable tsar needs an intercessor and comforter.

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The Tikhvin icon of the Most Holy Theotokos has always been loved by Russian tsars. How many times crowned persons rushed to her on a pilgri...