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 Miraculous weeping icon of Saint Irene Chrysovalantou
The Miraculous weeping icon of Saint Irene Chrysovalantou is a special part of The Sacred Patriarchal and Stavropegial Monastery. Whether just stopping by in the morning before work for a prayer, or traveling from places far and near to fullfill a tama, hundreds are those that visit the monastery each day to pay tribute to this blessed holy mother.
The icon was painted in 1921 by an Orthodox monk on Mount Athos, Greece. Athos is also referred to as “The Holy Mountain”. It’s home to a semi-autonomous all-male monastic community of twenty monasteries composed of 1,500 inhabitants. The monasteries on Athos operate in the same manner that they have for over one thousand years. The monks keep Byzantine time, use the Julian calendar and spend their days in isolation, mystique and contemplation praying and fasting. It’s no wonder so many miraculous icons have originated from this holy place.
The icon of Saint Irene Chrysovalantou was brought to the United States of America in 1972 by Metropolitan Paisios of Tyana, abbot of the current Patriarchal Monastery in Astoria who also served time as a monk on Mount Athos for many years. Metropolitan Paisios’s dream was to found a new monastery in the heart of Astoria dedicated to Saint Irene, the most gracious abbess of a very famous monastery during the 9th century AD called Chrysovalantou.
The fame of the monastery of Chrysovalantou reached the corners of the earth during the tenure of this most gracious and all-holy abbess, Irene of Cappadocia. She was a beautiful, noble and very wealthy young woman. In fact, such was her beauty and nobility that she was actually sought out to marry the King! But she only knew one bridegroom. Instead, she cut her long blonde hair, gave all she had to the poor, freed all of her slaves and fled to a monastery (Chrysovalantou) so that she may devote her life to Jesus Christ.
Miracles, sick people healed, demons vanishing, souls saved and more miracles. Such dramatic events were all the more common at Chrysovalantou during this Holy abbess’s tenure as she relentlessly guided her spiritual daughters to paradise. She prayed and she fasted...she fasted and she prayed. Days and nights she went on praying without stopping for food or water! Yet, the grace of our Lord was such on this holy woman that even when Saint Irene Chrysovalantou eventually passed away at the age of 103(!), unheard of at the time, she was as beautiful as ever and barely looked as if she had aged at all. But her miraculous interventions had only begun.
Metropolitan Paisios of Tyana knew it all too well and in 1972, with the icon of the Most Gracious Abbess of Chrysovalantou as his guide, he realized his dream as the Sacred Patriarchal and Stavropegial Orthodox Monastery of Saint Irene Chrysovalantou was founded in the heart of Astoria. As Irene’s pure life and her many miracles touched the lives of many who sought her help the monastery in Astoria rapidly gained fame and established itself as a center of orthodox faith.
Many come to her holy shrine in Astoria asking our holy mother to help with life's hardship, to eat of her miraculous apple. Many of those same people go on to give amazing testimonials about how our holy mother helped them overcome the hardship. Since its founding, hundreds of letters have poured into the monastery from faithful thanking Irene for her miraculous interventions.
Then came 1990. Yet another year marked with human blood. The United States of America was gearing up for the Gulf War. The icon of Saint Irene Chrysovalantou was on loan to The Greek Orthodox Church of Saint Athanasios and John the Baptist. The day was October 17th…and it happened…glorified be Thy name. Tears. Our most gracious abbess wept as tears rolled down her icon.
The miraculous icon was returned to the monastery in New York but the Gulf war continued. Again the icon was seen weeping.
Miracles and Testimonials continue to this day.
I found this worthy to be encluded. Gil-J.