Disclaimer and Endorsement:
The Icons posted on this web site are for spiritual inspiration only. There are no claims for ownership of the Icons listed. This Icon Directory is intended as an Orthodox Christian medium for Spiritual education.
If an Icon listed is an infringement of copywright, I will gladly remove it.
For those authors who kindly allow the spiritual, educational, and memorial display of their beautiful work, thank you for your blessed ministry.
Many Miracle-Working Icons can be found on the Orthodox Church in America web site.
For purchasing information please visit the web site of The Icon Studio of the Convent of St. Elizabeth which produce Icons in all sizes of Jesus, the Theotokos, traditional Saints and Festal Ocasions.
They are in strict Byzantine or traditional Russian style.
For full or partial Church Iconography, large Icons can be produced on canvas by the studio and permanently applied to Church walls and ceilings.
Their Icon studio has a well-known reputation for the beauty and refined artistic quality of its work, and has the lowest prices available.
They also provide Icon prints of all Icon productions.
It is a pleasure to list and give the appropiate credit for all authorship listed.
Gilbert-Joseph
GGallant2@Tampabay.rr.com
Synaxarion or Legend:
Icons of Mary holding her Son Jesus have been popular since the Council of Ephesus which in 431 solemnly declared Mary to be the Theotokos or Mother of God.
St. Luke was the first one who painted the "Theotokos", "Mother of God", while she was still alive. He is credited with three icons of the "Panagia", in one case using the wooden table where Mary and St. John ate their meals.
Throughout history, many Icons of the Most Holy Mother of God have had miracles attributed to them.
In addition, there are those Icons which may not have been miracle working, but still been venerated with the hope of intercession from the Mother of God.
The Icons posted on this web site are for spiritual inspiration only. There are no claims for ownership of the Icons listed. This Icon Directory is intended as an Orthodox Christian medium for Spiritual education.
If an Icon listed is an infringement of copywright, I will gladly remove it.
For those authors who kindly allow the spiritual, educational, and memorial display of their beautiful work, thank you for your blessed ministry.
Many Miracle-Working Icons can be found on the Orthodox Church in America web site.
For purchasing information please visit the web site of The Icon Studio of the Convent of St. Elizabeth which produce Icons in all sizes of Jesus, the Theotokos, traditional Saints and Festal Ocasions.
They are in strict Byzantine or traditional Russian style.
For full or partial Church Iconography, large Icons can be produced on canvas by the studio and permanently applied to Church walls and ceilings.
Their Icon studio has a well-known reputation for the beauty and refined artistic quality of its work, and has the lowest prices available.
They also provide Icon prints of all Icon productions.
It is a pleasure to list and give the appropiate credit for all authorship listed.
Gilbert-Joseph
GGallant2@Tampabay.rr.com
Synaxarion or Legend:
Icons of Mary holding her Son Jesus have been popular since the Council of Ephesus which in 431 solemnly declared Mary to be the Theotokos or Mother of God.
St. Luke was the first one who painted the "Theotokos", "Mother of God", while she was still alive. He is credited with three icons of the "Panagia", in one case using the wooden table where Mary and St. John ate their meals.
Throughout history, many Icons of the Most Holy Mother of God have had miracles attributed to them.
In addition, there are those Icons which may not have been miracle working, but still been venerated with the hope of intercession from the Mother of God.
Icon of the Mother of God
of
Seven Lakes
of
Seven Lakes
According to Church tradition, this icon won glory by great miracles wrought by it in the 17th century, it’s name comes from that of the Sedmiyezornaya ("Of the Seven Lakes") Hermitage of the Most Holy Theotokos, situated 17 versts from Kazan. The hermitage was founded in the early 17th century by Monk Evfimy, who brought to it the Smolensk Icon of the Mother of Ciod from the town of Velilcy Ustyug. Later on this icon came to be known as the Icon of the Mother of God "Of the Seven Lakes."Ït was installed in the hermitage's Church of the Ascension. Quite probably, this type of icon was previously known as the Tsargrad-Smolcnsk Icon of the Mother of God, since the icon included in this album has slill another name, inscribed in smaller letters, "Tsaregradskaya" (meaning "from Tsargra(T or Constantinople), in addition to "Sedrniyezernaya" ("Of the Seven Lakes1')
In June 1654. an epidemic of the plague broke out in Russia ,In Moscow alone.il took.the toll ofmore than 400,000 lives. Eventually it spread to Kazan where 40,000 people perished. It was then decided to bring the Icon of the Mother of God from the Sedmiyczcrnaya Hermitage to Kazan in order to save and cheer up its people. To meet the holy image, a ceremonial procession was held in which another Russia's great miracle-working icon, the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God, was carried. The meeting took place two versts from the city at me spot where the Kazan Kizichevsky Monastery was subsequently founded. After the icons were carried round the city, the plague began to subside and when they were brought Into people's houses, it stopped altogether. Feast days: June 26/July 9, July 28/August 10 and October 13/26.