Any icon is miraculous if we have enough faith to notice it. We want to help you find this miracle for yourself.
Vladimir Icon of the Mother of God (Church of St. Nicholas in Tolmachi at the State Tretyakov Gallery)
When the rumor about her miracles reached the son of Yuri Dolgoruky, Prince Andrei Bogolyubsky, he decided to transport the icon to the north. But passing Vladimir, the horses carrying the miraculous icon stood up and could not move. Replacing the horses with new ones also didn't help. The prince interpreted this sign as the desire of the Mother of God to remain in Vladimir, where in two years the temple of the Assumption of the Virgin was built.
The icon of the Vladimir Mother of God is also called the intercessor: she withdrew the troops of Tamerlane from Moscow, saved Moscow from the seizure of Tsarevich Mazovsha, and helped during the “Great Stand on the Ugra”.
Before this glorious icon, all the most important state acts of Russia were performed: the oath of allegiance to the Motherland, prayers before military campaigns, the election of the All-Russian Patriarchs.
The feast in honor of the Vladimir Icon of the Mother of God is held three times a year in gratitude for the threefold deliverance of our Fatherland from enemies with Her help: June 3, July 6 and September 8
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Miraculous Tikhvin Icon of God (Temple of the Tikhvin Icon of the Mother of God)
On October 31, 1680, a new Tikhvin church was solemnly consecrated in the village of Alekseevskoye to the north of Moscow: a procession with the Patriarch and Tsar Feodor Alekseevich went from the Kremlin to her. On the day of the consecration of the temple, the tsar presented it with the main shrine - the miraculous Tikhvin icon of the Mother of God.
Surprisingly, the Church of the Tikhvin Mother of God in Alekseevskoye was not closed even in Soviet times. He also survived during the great Stalinist construction of VDNKh in that area.
According to modern legend, in 1941, during the winter offensive of the Germans on Moscow, it was from here that the miraculous icon of the Tikhvin Mother of God was taken, with which, by order of Stalin, they flew around the city by plane. And soon the first successful offensive of the Red Army took place, which ended with the capture of the city of Tikhvin. The celebration of the icon was established on June 26 (according to the Julin calendar).
Icon of the Mother of God "Seeking the Lost" (Church of the Ascension of the Slovuschee in Bryusov Lane)
The Moscow copy of the icon "The Seizure of the Dead" was written by an Italian master and belonged to one Moscow noble family. Its last owner unexpectedly went bankrupt, widowed and left with three teenage daughters. In extreme despair, he drank and was close to suicide. But with his last strength, as the same chronicle tells us, he prayed before the icon and received help. The life of the family improved: the daughters without dowry married happily, and the grateful father transferred the ancestral shrine to his parish church.
After that, the icon itself endures many trials: during the invasion of the French in 1812, it was cut into three parts and thrown away. After gaining and restoring, she wanders around the temples, but one is demolished, the other is closed. The image experienced many misfortunes in atheistic times, but, according to eyewitnesses, the stream of miracles emanating from the ancient face of the Mother of God did not dry up. Quite recently, in the 80s, there was a strong fire in the Church of the Ascension of the Word. The kivot burned out, but the fire was powerless before the image of the Most Pure.
Feast of the Icon of the Mother of God "Seeking the Lost" - 18 February.
Icon of the Mother of God "Gracious" (Conception Convent)
In the very center of the capital, in the Conception Monastery, there is the Graceful Icon of the Mother of God. She helps many parishioners to give birth to a child, to resolve family conflicts.
According to legend, the miraculous icon of the Most Holy Theotokos "Merciful-Kykkos" was painted by the holy apostle and evangelist Luke. She is located in a monastery on the island of Cyprus and is famous for the fact that for a long time and to this day, childless women come to her for help. In the 18th century, a copy of this icon - "Gracious", appeared in the Conception Convent in Moscow. After the revolution and the closure of the monastery, the shrine was located in the temple of the Prophet Elijah, and only 7 years ago the miraculous image returned to the monastery.
Icon holiday - November 12 and December 26.
Iverskaya Icon of the Mother of God (Iverskaya Chapel)
The Iveron Icon of the Mother of God (Hodegetria), one of the most glorified and revered icons of the Orthodox world, the shrine of the Iversky Monastery on Athos.
The ancient miraculous icon of the Iversky Monastery is a version of the Hodegetria, in which the face of the Mother of God is inclined and turned to the Christ Child, also presented in a slight turn to the Mother. On the chin of the Mother of God there is a bleeding wound, according to the legend, inflicted by the opponents of the icons. The icon dates from the 11th century; silver Georgian setting - early 16th century
In the seventeenth century. in Russia under Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich the Iveron Icon was especially revered. The most famous, famous for numerous miracles, was the Russian copy-copy of the Greek icon of 1648, which was located in the Iverskaya chapel near the Resurrection gate of the Kitaygorodskaya wall.
In 1929 the Iverskaya chapel was closed, and in 1934 it was demolished along with the Resurrection Gate. The exact location of the image of the Iverskaya Chapel is not known: according to the latest data, the Iverskaya Icon from the collection of the Tretyakov Gallery can be identified with it. In 1995, the Resurrection Gate and the Iverskaya Chapel were restored, for which a new copy was made at the Iversky Monastery on Mount Athos at the request of Patriarch Alexy II (executed by the icon painter Luka, the hieromonk of the Xenophon Monastery).
Saint Nicholas (Ugreshskaya icon)
The famous image of Nicholas the Wonderworker came to the Tretyakov Gallery from the Nikolo-Ugreshsky Monastery. This men's monastery, although not included in the number of Moscow monasteries, has been closely connected with the capital throughout its 600-year history.
In 1380, on the way to the Kulikovo field, the army of the Grand Duke Dmitry Ivanovich stopped to rest. It was then that the icon of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker appeared to the noble prince Dmitry, strengthening the prince with faith and hope, "all this sinned his heart." Since then this place has been called Ugresha.
Returning from the Battle of Kulikovo, a prayer service was served at the site of the miraculous appearance of the icon, and the faithful prince Dimitri ordered to erect here a temple and a monastic monastery in the name of St. Nicholas.
Until the closure of the monastery, the remains of a pine tree on which the icon appeared in the chapel was kept. After the closure of the monastery, everything outside and inside the chapel was destroyed, and the icon was transferred to the State Tretyakov Gallery.
Icon of the Mother of God "Satisfy my sorrows" (Church of St. Nicholas-in-Blacksmiths)
A copy of the miraculous image of the Mother of God "Satisfy my sorrows", brought to Moscow by the Cossacks in 1640. At present, the fate of that icon is unknown.
The celebration of the miraculous icon, performed annually on January 25, was established in 1760 in memory of the healing of a sick woman who was honored with a vision of this holy image and was healed after a prayer service before him on January 25 in the Church of St. Nicholas on Pupyshi in Moscow. The services and akathist compiled by her belong to the same time.