The face of the Most Holy Theotokos, or the Virgin Mary, is the most revered icon in our country. In Orthodoxy, it is customary to distinguish four main types of writing a portrait of the Mother of God, among them the Guide, which includes the Kazan, Smolensk and Pechersk icons, Tenderness - the icon of the Don Mother of God, Praying - the Novgorod icon and the Most Pure.
Instructions
Step 1
All over Russia today there are more than a thousand myrrh-streaming icons dedicated to the Mother of God, noticed in the manifestation of certain miraculous properties. You can worship them, for example, in Yaroslavl, in the cloister of the Tolgsky convent, where the image of the Blessed Virgin Mary, traditionally considered the patroness of Russia, is located.
Step 2
Many people know that the icon of the Kazan Mother of God was lost, however, its magnificent prototypes are scattered all over our land today. One of the most popular faces at the moment is located in the city of Temnikov, in Mordovia, in the local Sanksar Monastery, another image, no less revered by Orthodox Christians, can be found in the Alexander Nevsky Lavra in St. Petersburg.
The face there today bears the name "Nevskaya Skoroposlushnitsa". There are many icons of the Kazan Mother of God in Moscow churches, this includes the Kazan Cathedral, the Church of the Transfiguration of the Lord, and the Temple of the Prophet Elijah, where you can worship the miraculous images of the Feodorovskaya, Vladimirskaya Mother of God and the miraculous icon "Unexpected Joy".
Step 3
There are also miraculous icons in the churches of the Ryazan region, so, for example, in the Sorrowful Church you can pray to the miraculous image “Joy to All Who Sorrow,” and in the village of Zamarovo, the Mother of God of God is venerated for a long time.
Step 4
One of the most ancient icons of the Virgin Mary, considered miraculous, is the icon of the Vladimir Mother of God, installed in the Moscow Dormition Cathedral. Her story has been overgrown with many wonderful legends and stories.
Step 5
The icon of the Sign, taken from Russia back in 1920, or as it is commonly called the Kurskaya Korennaya, which provided great assistance in protecting the homes of civilians from the bombings of World War II, is now abroad, periodically wandering around the temples of Russian cities.
Step 6
The most popular icons of our country are also the Iberian miraculous icon of the Mother of God, it can be found in many churches and monasteries of the Saratov and Tambov regions, the Tikhvin Mother of God, her icon can be worshiped in the capital in the temple of the same name, the icon of the Don Virgin Mary, which is now in the Tretyakov Gallery and is taken out to perform rituals on the days of honoring the Mother of God in the Donskoy Monastery for worshiping believers and performing various rituals and ceremonies.
