Icons

Orthodox icon of our Most Holy Theotokos " The Burning Bush" (3). Copy of icon of 16 cent. St. Catherine Monastery, Sinai.

In a single scene this icon presents Mose knelling before the Burning Bush, inside which the Virgin and the Child appear, and Moses receiving the Tables of the Law on the peak of Mount Sinai. The scene is witnessed from one side by St. Catherine.

Orthodox icon of our Most Holy Theotokos "The Cup that never Ends". Copy of an icon of 17 cent.

NOTE: the sizes of the icon are NOT exact.

Commemorated May 18.

This icon has Grace from God to hear the prayers and help and support people that are addicted to drugs, smoking and other types of addiction.

Orthodox icon of our most Holy and Ever- Virgin Theotokos "Enthroned (2). Icon of 14 cent. Benaki Museum, Athens

NOTE: the sizes of the icon are NOT EXACT.

Orthodox icon of our Most Holy and Even-Virgin Theotokos "The Life-Giving Spring" in gold foil (GF).

Please note that because of the gold in the icon and the reflexion, the photos are NOT so good. 

Orthodox icon of our Most Holy and Ever- Virgin Theotokos "

"The Mother of Love".

Orthodox icon of Theotokos "Trixerousa", "With three Hands".

This is the icon which St John of Damascus had recourse and prayed, with his just complaint, holding his severed right hand, with which he had written in favour of the holy icons and which had been cut off by the malice of the Eikonomachi. The Theotokos wrought the miracle of re-attaching the dead hand of her servant and bringing it to life again, while he dedicated to her a silver votive offering in the shape of a hand, which is placed in such a way on the icon that it appears that she has a third hand.

The icon, which until the 12th century was kept at the Lavra of St Sabbas, was given to St Sabbas, Archibishop of Serbia, and founder of the Monastery of Chilandari, during a visit to the Holy Land. He took it to Serbia, whence it was brought in a miraculous manner to the Holy Mountain when during the civil strife in Serbia in the reign of King Urosh V the mule whivh always carried the icon before the army was lost and, following a rute of its own, arrived at Chilandari.

At a later date, when there was quarreling among the brotherhood of the Monastery of Chilandari about the election of an Abbot, the Tricherousa moved miraculously from the sanctuary, where it had been up till then, to the Abbot's stall. A saintly hermit monk then told the brotherhood that from then on, in order to avoid quarrelling, no Abbot should be elected at Chilandari, since the Theotokos would occupy the position herself and govern the Monastery. And it is a fact that though the Chilandari brotherhood is a coenobium, it has no Abbot and is administreted in accordance with the system of idiorrhythmic monasteries.

Orthodox icon of the Most Holy Theotokos the "Unfading Rose".

Commemorated April 3rd.

The subject of this icon is from the 3rd Troparion of the Akathist (non sitting) Cannon of Theotokos:

"Rejoice, unfading rose.Rejoice, the only one who budded forth the unfading apple. Rejoice, birth-giver of the aromatic balm of the King of all. Rejoice, O Bride unwedded, the world's salvation."

Orthodox icon of  the Most Holy and Ever Virgin Theotokos by the Cross (1). Fresco of 11 cent. Athens, Greece.

This is the figure of the Theotokos from the intensely classicist representation of the Crucifixion. The psychic passion of the Theotokos is declared by the expression of the deep melancholy and the kind gesture. The harmonious physique and the attitude of the Theotokos are from the standards of the classical antiquity.

Orthodox icon of Theotokos and the Child, tempera and gold on wood and canvas, St. Catherine's Monastery Sinai,13 century.

In this icon the Virgin Mary appears with Her hands raised in the act of prayer. She is dressed in a dark robes covered and wrapped in red mantle bordered in gold. The Child is presented in a large gilt medallion surrounded by pearls that recall the maternity of Virgin Mary; His is blessing with one hand while holding a scroll in the other.

The gilt background of the composition is decorated with circular motifs that reflects light and illuminate the scene.in the two upper corners to the side of Virgin Mary's head are the figures of the two Archangels Michael to the left and Gabriel to the right, their heads surrounded by thin red halos decorated with pearls.