The Mother of God, "Kiev Caves"

The Mother of God, "Kiev Caves"The icon of the Mother of God of the Kiev Caves honors the Theotokos as the heavenly patron of the great Pechersk Lavra the monastery that has been, for nearly a millennium, the mother church of all Russian monasticism. Her image watches over the countless saints whose relics lie incorrupt in the ancient catacombs below. A quality mounted icon from Damascene Gallery.

filling them with confusion and blindness

and the author of both the third Gospel and the Acts of the Apostles — is venerated in the Orthodox Church as the first iconographer

The icon of the Mother of God 'Eleusa of Kykkos' depicts the tender type of the Theotokos in which the Christ Child embraces his Mother with filial love — an image of the mystery of the Incarnation rendered in the warmth of maternal and filial tenderness

have been united with Christ by their faith

Few iconographic types convey the eschatological hope of the Orthodox faith as powerfully as 'Christ in Glory' — the Lord reigning in the fullness of His divine majesty

was itself a teaching — showing the Church that interior prayer remains at the heart of all Christian life

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and venerated ever since as a miraculous source of grace and protection

Known as the Portaitissa — 'Keeper of the Gate' — this image of the Theotokos is distributed throughout the Orthodox world

whose mission to the Slavic peoples in the 9th century transformed the spiritual and cultural history of Eastern Europe

calls the faithful to venerate the one whom Christ called the greatest of those born of women

The 'Supplicating Apostle Andrew' is a celebrated deisis icon type attributed to the workshop of St