Iconography by the hand of Matthew D. Garrett
This icon was made to match a Christ enthroned, and depicts the Theotokos seated on a throne of cherubim, with the prophets Solomon, David, Isaiah, and Daniel encircling her. Each of the prophets holds a scroll with the words they wrote prophesying the Virgin Birth. — 9″ x 12″ based on a Cretan protype of the 18th century.
According to tradition, in the 14th century, St. Arsenius brought the original icon of the Konevitsa Mother of God to the site of where the Monastery of the Nativity of the Mother of God in Konevitsa was to be built. It was later removed to the New Valaam Monastery in order to keep it from being captured or destroyed by the Soviets in the 1940s. Miracles are said to have been worked through this image, and it is considered one of the greatest Treasures of the Orthodox Church in Finland. — 16″ x 20″
This icon is a variant of the Korsun Mother of God. The original was owned by a woman named Kasperova. During a long night of praying before the old, darkened icon, she looked up to see that the icon had renewed itself. — 7.5″ x 9″
This icon takes it’s name from a hymn composed by a monk who was told by the archangel Gabriel that the choirs of angels begin the hymn “More Honorable Than The Cherubim” with the words: “It is truly meet and right to bless thee, O Theotokos, ever-blessed, and all pure Mother of our God.”
13″ x 20″
This ancient holy image was brought to Yaroslavl in the 13th century by the Orthodox Princes Saints Vassily Vsevolodovich and Konstantin Vsevoiodovich of Yaroslavl, who became famous for the restoration of churches devastated during the invasion of the Tatar hordes led by Khan Bam. In 1501, a stone church was built for the incorruptible relics of the two brothers upon the order of Grand Duke Ivan the Great of Muscovy. The relics were placed between the columns of the new church under the princes’ old domestic icons, which included the miraculous Yaroslavl Icon of the Mother of God, Later on, the lower church in the Yaroslavl Church of St. Elijah the Prophet was consecrated in honor of this icon. Besides the iconographic type “Elousa,” There are another two versions, the Yaroslavl-Pechery and the Yaroslavl-Kazan, among the miracle-working Yaroslavl Icons of the Mother of God.
Feast day; June 8/21.
Named for Metropolitan Pimen of Moscow in the late 14th century, who brought the icon from Constantinople to Moscow. The original of this icon was credited with numerous healings after fragrant myrrh came forth from the icon.
This icon was painted for the iconostasis of Holy Transfiguration Antiochian Orthodox Church in Boise, Idaho as a wedding gift to my wife.
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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 deliverence from enemies continued to be associated with it. — 10″ x 12″
This icon was patterned after the icon of the Mother of God at St. Anthony’s Monastery in Arizona. That particular icon is based on the Cyprus-Stromyn icon of the Theotokos, a miracle-working icon from Cyprus.
Troparion (Tone 4)
Kontakion (Tone 8)
Troparion (Tone 4)
Kontakion (Tone 8)
http://orthodoxwiki.org/Annunciation
