Икона Божией Матери, именуемая Геронтисса / The Icon of the Mother of God, named "Gerontissa"

 Икона Божией Матери, именуемая Геронтисса

Дни памяти: 4 апреля

      Икона Божией Матери, именуемая Геронтисса (Старица - Настоятельница), прославилась в Афонском монастыре Пантократор (Вседержитель).
      Благочестивый игумен-старец той обители получил откровение о своей близкой кончине. Перед смертью он хотел причаститься Святых Христовых Таин и попросил служащего священника поторопиться совершить Божественную литургию, но тот не внял его просьбе. Тогда от чудотворной иконы Геронтиссы, стоявшей в алтаре, был услышан грозный глас, повелевший священнику поторопиться исполнить желание своего игумена.
      Другое чудо от иконы совершилось, когда по молитве настоятеля обители в пустых монастырских сосудах умножился елей.
      На иконе Матерь Божия изображается в полный рост без Богомладенца. Перед Нею сосуд, из которого изливается через края елей.
      Известна икона Божией Матери Геронтиссы в алтаре соборного храма Успенской Почаевской Лавры. По благословению архиепископа Волынского и Житомирского Модеста священнослужители перед началом богослужения испрашивали перед иконою Матери Божией благословение на начало службы.  

 

The Icon of the Mother of God, named "Gerontissa"

Commemorated on April 4

      The Icon of the Mother of God, named "Gerontissa" ("Staritsa" – "Nastoyatel'nitsa", "Head" – "Elderess"), was glorified in the Athos monastery of the Pantokrator ("Vsederzhitel'", "Ruler of All").
      The pious hegumen-elder of this monastery received a revelation about his impending end. Before death he wanted to be communed the Holy Mysteries of Christ and he besought of the serving priest to hasten to make the Divine Liturgy, but that one did not heed his request. Then from the wonderworking Gerontissa Icon in the altar was heard a fiercesome voice, ordering the priest to hasten to fulfill the wish of his hegumen.
      Another miracle from the icon occurred, when through the prayer of the head of the monastery, oil appeared in empty monastic vessels.
      On the icon, the Mother of God is imaged in full stature without the Christ-Child. Before Her is a vessel, from which oil pours out over the edge.
      An icon of the Gerontissa Mother of God is known of in the altar of the Uspenie-Dormition cathedral church in the Pochaev Lavra. Through the blessing of Archbishop Modest of Volynsk and Zhitomir, priest-servers before the start of Divine-services asked the blessing for the start of services in front of the Icon of the Mother of God.

© 1996-2001 by translator Fr. S. Janos.
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Икона Божией Матери "Неувядаемый Цвет". /The Icon of the MostHoly Mother of God, "Unfading Blossom" ("Neuvyadaemii Tsvet"):

The Icon of the MostHoly Mother of God, "Unfading Blossom" ("Neuvyadaemii Tsvet"):

Commemorated on April 3

      The Icon of the MostHoly Mother of God, "Unfading Blossom" ("Neuvyadaemii Tsvet"): On this icon the MostHoly Mother of God holds Her Divine Son upon Her right arm, and in Her left hand – is a bouquet of white lilies. This bouquet symbolically signifies the unfading flower of virginity and immaculateness of the All-Pure Virgin, to Whom thus also Holy Church turns: "Thou art the Root of virginity and the Unfading Blossom of purity". Copies of this icon were glorified at Moscow, Voronezh and other locales of the Russian Church.

© 1996-2001 by translator Fr. S. Janos.

Икона Божией Матери "Неувядаемый Цвет".

Дни памяти: 3 апреля

      Икона Божией Матери "Неувядаемый Цвет". На иконе Пресвятая Богородица держит Своего Божественного Сына на правой руке, а в левой руке у Нее - цветок белой лилии. Этот цветок символически знаменует неувядаемый цвет девства и непорочности Пречистой Девы, к Которой так и обращается Святая Церковь: "Ты еси Корень девства и Неувядаемый Цвет чистоты". Списки этой иконы прославились в Москве, Воронеже и других местах Русской Церкви.  

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The Icon of the Mother of God, named "The Powerful", Икона Божией Матери, именуемая "Державная"

The Icon of the Mother of God, named  "The Powerful"

Commemorated on March 2

      The Icon of the Mother of God, named  "The Powerful", appeared on 2 March 1917 in the village of Kolomensk near Moscow. A service and akathist to it were composed with the assistance of His Holiness Sainted Patriarch Tikhon (+ 1925. Comm. 25 March, 26 September, Sunday following 25 January; glorified 1989). 

© 1996-2001 by translator Fr. S. Janos. 

Икона Божией Матери, именуемая "Державная"

Дни памяти: 2 марта

      Икона Божией Матери, именуемая "Державная", явилась 2 марта 1917 года в селе Коломенском под Москвой. Служба и акафист ей составлены с участием Святейшего Патриарха Тихона († 1925).

 

Alekseev Kolomenskoe

The Icon of the Mother of God, named "Alleviatrix of my Grief"

The Icon of the Mother of God, named "Alleviatrix of my Grief"

Commemorated on January 25

      The Icon of the Mother of God, named "Alleviatrix of my Grief", was glorified at Moscow by many miracles in the second half of the XVIII Century, and particularly during a time of plague in the year 1771. The icon was brought to Moscow by Cossacks in 1640 during the reign Mikhail Feodorovich (1613-1645) and placed in a temple of Sainted Nicholas at Pupyshakh and Sadovnikakh. One time, likely following a conflagration and repeated rebuilding of the temple they forgot about the icon, and it was taken out and put in a bell-tower in great carelessness. But the abundant mercies, manifest through it by the Mother of God, compelled them to recollect their forgetfulness of the holy icon and to remove it into a proper place in the church, in which later a chapel was built in its honour. The celebration of the wonderworking icon, made annually on 25 January, was established in the year 1760 in memory of the healing of a sick woman, who had been granted a vision of the holy image, and was healed after a molieben service before it on 25 January in the church of Saint Nicholas at Pupyshakh street in Moscow. To this period are attributed the compilation to it of services and an akathist. Venerable copies of the Icon of the Mother of God, named "Alleviatrix of my Grief", are found in may of the churches of Moscow and other cities.

© 1996-2001 by translator Fr. S. Janos.