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 the Passion
The Icon of the Mother of God "Of the Passion" The icon received its name because on either side of the Mother of God are two angels with the implements of the Lord's suffering: the Cross, the lance, and the sponge.
There was a certain pious woman, Katherine, who began to suffer seizures and madness after her marriage. She ran off into the forest and attempted suicide more than once.
In a moment of clarity she prayed to the Mother of God and vowed that if she were healed, she would enter a monastery. After recovering her health, she only remembered her vow after a long time. Afraid and mentally afflicted, she took to her bed. Three times the Most Holy Theotokos appeared to her, commanding the sick woman to go to Nizhni-Novgorod and to buy Her icon from the iconographer Gregory.
After she had done this, Katherine received healing. From that time on, miracles have occurred from this icon. The Feast day of this icon is on August 13, commemorating its transfer from the village of Palitsa to Moscow in 1641. A church was built at the place where it was met at the Tver gates, and in 1654, the Strastna monastery was built.
The icon is also commemorated on April 30, and on the sixth Sunday after Pascha (the Sunday of the Blind Man) in memory of the miracles which occurred on this day. Other "Passion" icons of the Mother of God have been glorified in the Moscow church of the Conception of St. Anna, and also in the village of Enkaeva in Tambov diocese.