Virgin “O Mother All-Glorified”

The icon of the Virgin “O Mother All-Glorified” belongs to the iconographic type known as The Virgin Eleusa (old-believer icon). The icon was replicated all over Russia. The icon borders represent six full-length images of the saints painted in gold. The Holy Virgin’s look expresses sorrow and prayer for the Son and all the people.

Virgin “O Mother All-Glorified”

The icon ‘“O Mother All-Glorified’ belongs to the iconographic type of the Virgin Mary of Tenderness Our Lady supporting the Divine Child with Her palms is depicted waist-length.The arms of the Divine Child are raised.On the shoulders and the head of the Mother of God instead of usual asterisks –symbols of virginity- are medallions with the heads of an angel, which is sometimes interpreted by orthodox theologians as an ancient symbolic idea of the Trinity.

O, Mother, all Glorified

The figure of the Mother of God with the Infant Christ upon Her hands. On the edge of an omophorion is an inscription carrying the Akathist of the Theotokos.