May 21
The original of this icon, celebrated on 21 May, takes its name from the central Russian city of Vladimir. Tradition holds that the original was painted by the Evangelist Luke and approved by the Virgin Mary, then made its way from Jerusalem to Constantinople in the fifth century, thence to Kiev in the twelfth. In 1155, as Prince Andrei Iur’evich carried the icon into battle, miracles were reported to surround it. In 1160 it was moved to Vladimir, and that name became permanently associated with it — even though after 1395 its permanent home was Moscow’s Dormition Cathedral, where miracles of deliverance from enemies continued to be associated with it. — 10″ x 12″
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