Table of contents:
- Icon of the Kazan Mother of God
- Tikhvin Icon of the Mother of God
- Iberian Icon of the Mother of God
- Kursk-Root Icon of the Mother of God
- Vladimir Icon of the Mother of God
- Feodorovskaya icon of the Mother of God
Video: Miraculous apparitions: the most famous icons of the Mother of God
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
November 20 - the day of the appearance of the icon of the Mother of God "Leaping of the Infant" Ugreshskaya. Before the Battle of Kulikovo, the icon of Nicholas the Wonderworker appeared to Grand Duke Dmitry Donskoy. The prince took this appearance as a special sign of God and exclaimed: "This is my whole heart!" and made a vow to build a monastery if he won. After some time, the Ugreshsky Monastery was built, and a little later an icon of the Mother of God appeared there, which was called "Vygranie". Despite all the assertions and speculations of skeptics, the appearance of icons remains an unexplored and mysterious manifestation of superhuman strength. Today we will focus on the most famous icons in Russia.
Icon of the Kazan Mother of God
The icon of the Kazan Mother of God was found on July 8, 1579 in Kazan. 25 years have passed since Ivan the Terrible conquered the Kazan Khanate. And there was a terrible fire in Kazan, which turned into ashes half of the Kazan Kremlin and part of the city. Muslims gloatingly declared that the Almighty was angry with Christians, but it turned out that the Kazan fire was an omen of the irrevocable establishment of the Orthodox faith in the land of the Golden Horde.
A few days after the fire, the archer Daniil Onuchin decided to start a new construction site on the site of the burnt house. But his 10-year-old daughter Matrona said that the Mother of God appeared to her in a dream and commanded to announce that they would find her at the site of the recent fire. The girls did not attach any importance to the words of the girl, then the Mother of God appeared to her for the second time and for the third. The girls heeded the insistence and, raking the ashes, they found the icon of the Kazan Mother of God.
The icon healed the sick (it all began with the enlightenment of the blind men Nikita and Joseph), inspired the Russian army in the Time of Troubles, Peter I prayed in front of it on the eve of Poltava, and in 1812 - Mikhail Kutuzov. In 1904, the Kazan miraculous icon of the Mother of God was stolen and the precious robe, destroyed. Numerous ancient copies of this icon have spread all over the world. Today the Russian Orthodox Church is making great efforts to return these shrines to their homeland. The earliest copy of this icon can be seen today in the Tretyakov Gallery.
Tikhvin Icon of the Mother of God
Another very revered icon in Russia is the Tikhvin icon of the Mother of God. According to legend, the icon was painted by Luke. The annals say that in 1383 an icon of the Mother of God with the Infant God appeared over the lake, and an unknown force carried it through the air. The icon stopped near Tikhvin. There they built a temple of stone, and later on this place appeared the Tikhvin Mother of God-Assumption Monastery.
In 1944, the icon was exported to Europe, and then to the United States. In 1982, Archbishop John ordered Archpriest Sergius Garklavs to return the icon to Russia when the country's attitude towards the Church changed and the Tikhvin Monastery was restored. In June 2004, the icon returned to Russia.
The icon is especially revered among mothers who pray to the icon to instruct their foolish children on the true path and protect them from harm.
Iberian Icon of the Mother of God
Another legendary icon is the Iveron Icon of the Mother of God. The first mention of it dates back to Byzantine sources dating back to the 9th century. Then the icon was in the house of a pious widow who lived near the city of Nicaea (today it is Turkey). At that time, vicious heretics destroyed the holy icons of the Mother of God by order of the authorities. When they came to the widow's house, she begged them to leave the shrine to her for a reward. The greedy people agreed, but when leaving, one of them struck the face with a spear, and blood flowed from the icon. The widow hurried to the sea with the icon and lowered it into the water, but it did not lie down on the water, but moved along the sea, standing upright.
After 200 years, monks on Athos saw a pillar of fire reaching the sky, at the base of which this icon was. According to legend, after the prayer service, Elder Gabriel walked on the water, as the Mother of God commanded him in a dream, took the icon and hung it in the church. The miraculous Iveron Icon of the Mother of God was well known in Russia. In the 17th century Nikon, archimandrite of the Novospassky monastery, who later became the Patriarch of All Russia, asked for blessing on Athos to send a copy of this icon. The icon was painted for Russia by priest Iamblikh Romanov. After a great prayer service from evening until dawn, in which 365 monks took part, the legendary icon was sprinkled with holy water, and then a new board made of cypress wood. They painted the icon with paints mixed with particles of relics.
The icon was kept in the Iverskaya chapel at the Resurrection Gate, and the Russian sovereigns, before entering the Kremlin, always prayed in front of this miraculous icon. In 1929 the chapel was destroyed and the icon disappeared. Only a mobile icon has survived, which is now in Sokolniki, in the Church of the Resurrection of Christ.
Kursk-Root Icon of the Mother of God
This icon appeared to the residents of Kursk after the city was devastated by the troops of Khan Batu in 1295. According to legend, the icon was found by hunters, not far from the city under a tree stump in the roots. Several times they brought her to the city temple, but she miraculously disappeared and again ended up in the same place where she was found. Then a chapel was built on the site of the appearance of the icon.
The next time the Kursk Root Icon is mentioned in 1383. Then the icon fell into the hands of the Horde, they cut it in half. The priest, who found the icon, folded the halves with faith, and they grew together. The chapel was rebuilt, and the icon remained there. Later, a monastery appeared on this place - the Root Hermitage.
Another attempt to destroy the icon took place in 1898. The intruders blew up the temple, but the Kursk-Root Icon of the Mother of God remained unharmed. Even the glass in the icon case was not damaged.
During the October Revolution, the miraculous image was taken out of Russia, and today it is one of the main shrines of the Russian Orthodox Church abroad.
Vladimir Icon of the Mother of God
Another very famous icon, painted by Luke himself, allegedly on the board of the table of the Holy Family. For a long time the icon was in Kiev, but in 1155 it was taken to Vladimir by Andrey Bogolyubsky. This is where the name of the icon comes from.
The icon is revered as especially valuable in several cities of the Russian lands. The Vladimir Icon of the Mother of God is especially famous for the fact that it saved Moscow from the invasion of Tamerlane. Today the icon is kept in the Tretyakov Gallery.
Feodorovskaya icon of the Mother of God
It is unknown who brought this icon, written by the Evangelist Luke, to Russia, but already in 1164 it was in a chapel near the town of Gorodets and was revered as a miracle-working one. During the invasion of Batu, the chapel burned down. They thought that the icon had also perished. But in 1239 the Kostroma prince Vasily Yurievich saw this icon on a tree while hunting. She did not fall into his hands, rising into the air. After the common prayer, the icon was removed from the tree.
With the Feodorovskaya icon, Mikhail Feodorovich Romanov ascended to the reign in 1613, and from that time it began to be revered by the imperial House of Romanov. All foreign princesses who were married to the Russian grand dukes and emperors, after baptism received the patronymic Feodorovna.
Today the icon is in the Epiphany-Anastasin Cathedral in Kostroma.
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