October 14, 2020 How Russian Icon Painting Glorified the Protection of the Mother of God For a long time the Protection of the Holy Virgin, or the Pokrov* has been especially revered in the Russian land. Notably, the early…
October 6, 2020 Details in Iconography: Understanding the Significance of an Earring An icon is, first of all, a holy image before which we stand in prayer. It is also a visibly expressed life experience of…
September 30, 2020 What Is Stroganov Icon-Painting School? Dmitry Trofimov, head of the Tsargrad creative workshops answers. Almost every icon has a customer, but only one family of patrons gave their name…
September 23, 2020 Kazanskaya-Kaplunovskaya Icon of the Mother of God Feast Days: September 24 July 21 HISTORY OF THE ICON At the end of the 17th century lived a pious priest, Fr. Ioann Ilyich…
September 17, 2020 The Pisidia* Icon of the Mother of God Feast day: September 16 HISTORY OF THE ICON The Pisidia Myrrh-streaming Icon of the Mother of God became famous for its great miracles in…
September 11, 2020 Icon of Panagia ‘Weeps’ in Athens According to reports from clergy of Agios Dimitrios Church in Vyronas, southeast of Athens, an icon of the Virgin Mary miraculously begun streaming tears….
August 27, 2020 Icon of the Mother of God of Częstochowa The Mother of God is looking sorrowfully from the wonderworking icon. Her face is dark. There is a bloody wound on her cheek. She…
August 20, 2020 Tenderness Icon of The Mother of God The Seraphim-Diveyevo “Tenderness” Icon of The Mother of God belonged to Saint Seraphim of Sarov and was his cell icon, he called it “Joy…
August 15, 2020 “Hodegetria” of Kostroma Icon of the Mother of God The miraculous Smolensk-Kostroma Icon of the Mother of God “Hodegetria” is one of the shrines of the Bogoyavlensky Convent in Kostroma. The fresco icon,…
July 30, 2020 Svyatogorsk Icon of the Mother of God During the reign of John the Terrible in 1563, a native of Voronichi, a suburb of Pskov, a fifteen-year-old shepherd Timothy saw a Tenderness…
July 15, 2020 Icon of the Mother of God of Akhtyr This shrine with an incredible history of finding, unfortunately, was lost in 1903. It was stolen when sent to St. Petersburg for restoration. Today,…
July 2, 2020 The Long Suffering Icon The wonderworking Bogolyubskaya icon of the Mother of God can be rightly considered one of the oldest Russian icons. It was painted about fifty…
