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.
Kursk Korennaya - The Sign
This icon was invented in the forest on the bank of the Tuskar River some 27 versts from the site of the city of Kursk devastated by Khan Batu. In 1295, a hunter stumbled upon an icon lying face down on the roots of a tree. He picked it up and saw a clear spring gushing from the ground, The hunter told the people of the nearby town of Rylsk about his find. Soon the icon, which attracted a stream of pilgrims, began to work various miracles. Prince Vassily Shemyaka of Rylsk had the icon moved to his capital, but failed to come to meet it himself and on the same day he was struck with sudden blindness. Having realized that this was a punishment for his guilt, the Prince repented and went to pray before the icon. His prayers brought him a speedy recovery. The Prince then built a church dedicated to the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin and installed the icon in it. The holy image, however, miraculously reappeared at the spot where it had been found and where a small chapel had been built in its honor. In 1383, the whole of that area was once again devastated by the Tatars, who set the chapel on fire and cut the icon in two. Later on, however, the priest who used to conduct prayer services in the chapel found the splinters of the icon and joined them together. In 1597, Tsar Feodor Ioannovich ordered the icon to be brought to Moscow and, after having been adorned, the holy image was returned to the original spot where later the same year the Korennaya Hermitage was founded and a Church of the Icon of the Mother of God "The Life-Bearing Spring" began to be built. In the subsequent years the icon was more than once brought to Kursk. Putivl ancf other cities to be temporarily kept there. In 1612, the residents of Kursk founded a monastery of trie Sign dedicated to the Kursk Korennaya Icon of the Mother of God as a token of their gratitude to the Most Holy Virgin for their deliverance from the Polish invaders, and the icon was permanently installed there. At present, the icon is in the United States. Feast days: September 8/21, November 27/December 10 and the 9th Friday after Easter.