The Dalmatian icon of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary is an icon revered in the Russian Orthodox Church miraculous . Comes from the Dalmatian Assumption Monastery . The celebration of the icon takes place on February 15 (according to the Julian calendar ).
| Dalmatian icon of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary | |
|---|---|
 Dalmatian icon in salary and icon case (photo by S. M. Prokudin-Gorsky , 1911 ) | |
| Date of appearance | XVII century |
| Iconographic Type | incomplete exodus of the Assumption of the Virgin |
| Location | original icon is lost |
| Celebration date | February 15 (28) |
Content
- 1 History
- 2 Iconography and decoration
- 3 notes
- 4 Literature
- 5 Links
History
The legend of the Dalmatian icon connects its appearance in the monastery with its founder, the Rev. Dalmat , who settled in a cave in 1644 at the confluence of the Techa River and the Iset River and brought with him the icon of the Assumption of the Virgin from the Nevyansk Monastery, in which he received tonsure. In 1651, the monastery formed around the cell of Dalmat was burned by the army of the Siberian prince Devlet-Girey , but the icon, according to legend, did not suffer from the fire (only its back side was burnt). For the first time, the story of the icon of the Virgin from the Dalmatian monastery was reported by the petition of the abbot of the Dalmatian monastery Isaac and Kelar Nikon to Tsars Ivan and Peter Alekseevich with a request for granting funds for monastery construction [1] . With this abbot in 1707, a stone Assumption Cathedral was built in the monastery, in which the Dalmatian icon was placed. In the XVIII century, the icon was decorated with a silver gilded frame .
Before the 1917 revolution, pilgrims flocked to the monastery twice a year: February 15 and August 15 (Assumption of the Virgin). According to the report of the abbot of the monastery, in 1864, up to 5,000 pilgrims from Perm, Tobolsk, Tomsk, and Orenburg provinces visited the monastery on patronal holidays.
The Dalmatian monastery was closed in the 1920s, its inhabitants, leaving, carried away the Dalmatian icon of the Virgin, and its whereabouts remain unknown.
Iconography and decoration
The Dalmatian icon had dimensions 88 × 73 cm. It depicted the incomplete exodus of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary (there was no appearance of the apostles in the clouds). In 1702, the icon was updated by the Tobolsk icon painter Ivan Nikitin. In 1864, a robe was made on the icon, in which it remained until its disappearance. She was chased silver with gilding, adorned with precious stones . The icon was kept in a carved icon case and was covered with a silk cover, which was raised if necessary.
From the list of icons are known:
- the list of 1725, made in the Dalmatian monastery by the icon painter of the Tamakul settlement, priest Andrei Mikhailov; the list was decorated with a silver setting;
- in the Church of the Signs of Barnaul (written in 1854 "resembling the true color of colors and the size of its board");
- the list of 1859, made by the Golyshev brothers, who created the new decoration of the Assumption Cathedral of the Dalmatian monastery; this list was decorated with a robe of 1800, which was on the original icon;
- Accurate Measuring List of 2002, executed by Archpriest Alexander Manshin.
Notes
- ↑ Inserted books of the Dalmatian Assumption Monastery (last quarter of the XVII - beginning of the XVIII century) / comp. I. L. Mankova. - Sverdlovsk, 1992 .-- S. 184-186.
Literature
- Dalmatian Icon // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : in 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1890-1907.
- Dalmatian icon of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary // Orthodox Encyclopedia . - M. , 2007 .-- T. 13 . - S. 664-665 . - ISBN 5-89572-022-6 .
Links
- E. Poselyanin . Tales of the miraculous icons of the Mother of God. February . Date of treatment February 25, 2010. Archived on April 18, 2012.