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.
The Weeping Icon of Mariapoch
Among Hungarian and Slavic Eastern Christians, the Weeping Icon of Mariapoch is revered because it stands for believers as a witness to the protection and intercession of the Most Holy Mother of God.
The Icon itself comes from and expresses the life of the Church in Eastern Europe. Its rich history reflects a deeply rooted faith in God and a trusting devotion to the Mother of God In the north-eastern plains of Hungary, in the village of Poch, stands the monastery of the Basilian Fathers, with a magnificent church dedicated to St. Michael the Archangel. In this church the first weeping of the Icon of the Mother of God took place in November, 1696. Amidst political and internal turmoil, the image of the Virgin, painted on wood, began to shed tears.
This weeping continued for five days and was witnessed by numerous persons.
When Leopold I, Emporer of Austria, had been informed of the miraculous icon, he immediately had it transferred to Vienna.
This royal act did not please the people of Poch, and it was very reluctantly that they parted with the Holy Icon. Three duplicate icons were painted, and one of these was placed again in the Church at Poch.
This second Icon of Mariapoch began to shed tears in August, 1715.
Devotion to the Holy Icon increased, and the Church at Mariapoch became a most renowned place of pilgrimage.
Nearly two centuries passed before the third and final shedding of tears took place in December, 1905.
The color plate of the Weeping Icon of Mariapoch in this collection (above left) is based on the original Icon which now remains in the Basilica of Vienna. Perhaps the more popular form of the Icon (above right) is the copy made after the first weeping, and now present at the Church of Poch.
Originally painted on wood and fully exposed, the icon was later covered with precious metal and stones as a sign of esteem and reverence.
As many faithful pilgrims approached it in veneration, they left jewelry and other precious items.
THEOTOKION -No other help, no other hope do we possess besides you, O Most Pure Virgin. Do aid us, for we hope in you, we glory in you. We are your servants; let us not be confounded.