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.
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.
Jerusalem Icon of the
Mother of God
By the Holy Evangelist Luke
Mother of God
By the Holy Evangelist Luke
The Jerusalem Icon of the Mother of God was written by the Holy Evangelist Luke in the 15th year after our Lords Ascension. This was the year of the Blessed Dormition of the Most Holy Theotokos.
In 453, the Icon was taken to Constantinople from Jerusalem and placed in the Temple of the Theotokos The Source. Later it was in the Vlaceron Church for some time. During the invasion of Korsun by the forces of Rus, the Jerusalem Icon was brought as a gift to Prince Vladimir, the Saint and Equal to the Apostles, who had conquered the city in 988 and there received Holy Baptism. St Vladimir gifted the Korsun shrine to the Novgorodians upon their conversion to Christianity.
The feastday of the Icon is commemorated 12 October.
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