The Mother of God, "Lifegiving Spring"

The Mother of God, "Lifegiving Spring"The icon of the Mother of God "Lifegiving Spring" depicts the Theotokos enthroned above a sacred spring, from which the healing waters of her grace flow to the faithful gathered below. This feast day icon is celebrated on Bright Friday the Friday of Pascha Week when the Church commemorates the miraculous spring at the Balkl sanctuary in Constantinople. A quality mounted icon from Damascene Gallery.

in the Jordanville tradition is rooted in the classical Russian canonical school

and correspondence

venerated as a saint and whose Trinity icon is considered the supreme masterwork of Orthodox iconographic art — is himself depicted here as a subject of veneration in this modern Russian icon

when the Cross of Christ is raised aloft and the faithful bow in adoration — is depicted in this mounted icon in the Old Believer iconographic tradition

one of the greatest spiritual fathers of 19th-century Russian Orthodoxy

Dostoevsky's work

depicting the forced marriage of a young woman to an elderly man — a social critique charged with human empathy

in which luminosity and compassion are emphasized throughout

a profound image of the mystery of the Incarnation

One of the most searching religious works of the 19th century

and the sorrowing

translating the Scriptures