Sign of the Mother of God

Icon of the Sign of the Mother of God of the Church of the Transfiguration on Kizhi Island

The Sign of the Mother of God (also the Sign of the Most Holy Theotokos ) is the Russian name for the images of the Nativity of Christ ^[1]

• Icons of the Sign of the Mother of God ( eng. Our Lady of the Sign ) are belt images of the Mother of God , with arms outstretched towards the sky and with Baby Jesus , with his right hand blessing the world, and in the left one holding a scroll as a sign of the salutary teaching ^[1] .
  • The Novgorod Icon of the Sign of the Mother of God (XII century) - for which the Church of the Sign of the Virgin was erected (1356). In honor of the icon there is a Russian Orthodox holiday (December 10).
  • The Kursk Icon of the Sign of the Mother of God (1295) - found among the roots of a tree, served to create the Monastery of the Root Hermitage (1597); now in New York (USA).
  • The Abalak Icon of the Sign of the Mother of God (1637) is a Tyumen icon of the Znamensky Monastery , the original has not been preserved.
  • Tsarskoye Selo Icon of the Sign of the Mother of God - a gift of the Byzantine Patriarch to Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich (XVII century); the former shrine of the Znamenskaya Church in the city of Pushkin; now the property of the St. Petersburg Theological Academy .