Theotokos " Container of the Uncontainable" icon

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Orthodox icon of the Most Holy Theotokos " Container of the Uncontainable", second half of 13 cent., Istanbul.

"Present below completely and above nowise absent was the uncircum­scribable Logos. For it was no migration through space, but divine con­descension that had taken place, and childbirth from a God-possessed Virgin who hears this that follows:

Rejoice, the uncontainable God’s container.
Rejoice, the magnificent mystery’s doorway........"

(From the 3rd Stanza of the Salutations of our Most Holy and Ever-Virgin Theotokos)