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Icon "The Sign of the Most Holy Theotokos": how does it help? Miracles associated with the icon. Icon of the Sign (Novgorod)

History remembers many cases when the images and relics of the saints worked miracles, helped to overcome serious ailments and other life difficulties. Because of this Orthodox people pay considerable attention to religious attributes. One of these is the icon "Sign Holy Mother of God". How does it help and how to properly address the image?

Description

This icon dates back to the 12th century. The author is not known exactly. The Mother of God is depicted in the traditional maforia with hands raised in prayer (the iconographic type of Orant). There is a baby on her chest - Jesus Christ. The Mother of God is standing. The original look is double-sided. The turnover contains images righteous Anna and Joachim, who are in prayer before Jesus Christ. It was originally decorated with a golden robe with precious stones.

Four centuries after its creation, the "Sign" icon was restored. The master was presumably Archbishop Macarius (the future Metropolitan of Moscow). Then from the ancient painting only fragments of the clothes of the Mother of God were preserved. The downside remained unchanged. Currently, the image is in the St. Sophia Cathedral (Novgorod).

History

According to sources, in 1170, Suzdal troops led by Andrei Bogolyubsky besieged Veliky Novgorod. The forces were unequal. And the townspeople turned in prayer to the Lord for salvation. On the third night of the siege, a voice from heaven ordered Archbishop John to take the image of the Mother of God from the church on Ilyinskaya Street and carry it to the city walls. During the procession, the opponents began to fire at the fortress. One of the arrows hit the icon. Tears flowed from the eyes of the Mother of God. After that, the enemies were suddenly seized by inexplicable horror. Scolding among themselves, they rushed away from the city walls. Taking advantage of this confusion, the Novgorodians began to pursue the Suzdal people and won.

This historical case is described in detail in the well-known icon-painting plot. And the Novgorodians themselves remember and venerate the icon, which depicts the Savior-Theotokos ("The Sign"). The meaning is also reinforced by other miracles that different times holy image.

Celebration

In the 12th century, after the military events, a celebration was established in honor of the icon (December 10, in a new style), which is performed in the Russian Church to this day. A service is held on this day. The priests read the prayers and canons, ask the Mother of God for intercession and confirmation in the faith.

Wonders

For two centuries the image was in the "native" wooden church on Ilyinskaya Street. However, in the middle of the 14th century, there was a fire in it. And the icon showed another miracle. The fire died down just near the prayer service, where the holy face hung. After that, next to the ashes, a new, stone temple was built, which received the status of the Icon found a new home.

In the 16th century, after the restoration of the image in Novgorod, there was another, larger fire. The fire spread to several streets. No efforts of the townspeople could pacify the formidable element. Then Metropolitan Macarius turned with a prayer to the Most Holy Theotokos and, with her well-known image in his hands, performed procession along the banks of the Volkhov. Suddenly a strong wind blew towards the river - the fire stopped.

In 1611, the Swedes attacked Novgorod. They brutally killed the townspeople and ravaged houses and churches, carrying out sacred dishes and desecrating icons. There is a known case when several foreigners approached the very temple on Ilyinskaya Street. At this time, the service was in it. Barely stepping on the threshold, the Swedes were thrown back by an invisible force. Their further attempts to enter the temple were unsuccessful. Upon learning of this, the enemies no longer approached the temple, and the Novgorodians, on the contrary, could escape in it.

During October revolution(1917) the icon was transferred to the Novgorod Museum, evacuated during the Great Patriotic War, and then returned to the Museum-Reserve. And finally, in 1991, the Novgorod diocese defended its salutary image. In, accompanied by an amazing celestial phenomenon - a rainbow around the dome of the temple - the icon "The Sign of the Most Holy Theotokos" was transferred. How the holy face helps individuals and with what requests can you contact him?

Meaning and prayers

It is known that in 1352, hundreds of people were miraculously healed during the plague epidemic. And later, cases of recovery from severe mental illnesses and blindness were recorded. This, according to the confessors, was favored by the icon "The Sign of the Most Holy Theotokos", in which it helps today.

Also, people come to the image who want peace in the family or country, want to find their missing relatives. However, the clergy are convinced, no matter what the believer asks, the Most Holy Theotokos will certainly help with sincerity and purity of thoughts. Its significance since the inception of Christianity on earth has been enormous. The Gospel describes many cases when she helped people in need and sick, converting them to faith.

Also significant is the question of how to pray to the Most Holy Theotokos. There are many lines written specifically to refer to it. So, there is also a petition for the "Sign" icon. However, in the opinion of all the same confessors, no matter what text a person turns to an image, his inner faith will always come first.

Miraculous lists

The history of icon painting knows several copies or copies made on the basis of the icon of the Mother of God "The Sign". They are located in Russia and abroad. Their names correspond to the location of the images: Abalakskaya, Kurskaya, Vologda, Pavlovskaya, Solovetskaya, Tsarskoselskaya, etc. All of them have holy power and demonstrate miracles, like the original icon "The Sign of the Most Holy Theotokos." How does the image help Christians? First of all, find faith.

To this end, in the fall of 2009, an "Orthodox Expedition" took place - a flight of the icon on spaceship around the Earth. During the project, 176 turns were made. Permission and blessing for such a procession was received from the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirill himself.

Days of celebration:
March 16 - the icon of the Mother of God "The Sign" Zlatoustovskaya
March 21 - Kursk-Root Icon of the Virgin "The Sign"
June 8, 2018 (rolling date) - the icon of the Mother of God "Sign" Kursk-Root
September 21 - Kursk-Root Icon of the Virgin "The Sign"
10 December - icon Theotokos "Sign" (common day)

WHAT THE SIGN IS PRAYER BEFORE THE ICON OF THE MOTHER OF GOD

Icon Mother of God, called "The Sign", depicts the Most Holy Theotokos, sitting and prayerfully raising Her hands; on her chest, against the background of a round shield (or sphere), is the blessing Divine Infant.
We pray, of course, not to a specific icon, but to the Mother of God, and it does not matter through which image of Her. The very history of the icon "Sign" suggests that before this image you need to pray for various illnesses, ailments, wars, with accusations of libel and other disasters.
And, although the Mother of God is prayed in such or similar cases through Her Icon of the Sign, we must not forget that peace comes first of all in our hearts, and then this is already manifested in the external: in the family, in the house, in the state.
The Mother of God is our prayer book and intercessor for us, sinful people, before Her Son. Any prayers before any of Her images can help in deliverance and cleansing us from sins. It is about this, first of all, that one should pray to Her bright image.

It must be remembered that icons or saints do not “specialize” in any particular area. It will be right when a person turns with faith in the power of God, and not in the power of this icon, this saint or prayer.
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ICON OF THE MOTHER OF GOD OF THE SIGN OF NOVGOROD

The Sign of the Most Holy Theotokos, which took place in Novgorod the Great in 1170 and after this event, the Novgorod icon received Russian name"The Omen".

That year, the son of Prince Andrei Bogolyubsky of Suzdal, at the head of the united army, approached the walls of Veliky Novgorod, the townspeople had to rely only on God's help and they prayed to the Lord day and night.
On the third night, Archbishop John of Novgorod heard a wondrous voice, which told him to take the image of the Most Holy Theotokos from the Novgorod Church of the Transfiguration of the Savior on Ilyina Street and carry it to the city wall.
The icon was carried under fire from the besiegers, and one arrow pierced the icon-painting face of the Virgin. Tears flowed from Her eyes, and the icon turned its face to the city. After such a Divine sign, inexplicable horror suddenly attacked the enemies, they began to beat each other, and the Novgorodians, encouraged by the Lord, fearlessly rushed into battle and won.

In remembrance of such a miracle of the Queen of Heaven, Archbishop John established a feast in honor of the Sign of the Mother of God, which is still celebrated by the entire Russian Church. The Athos hieromonk Pachomius Logofet, who was present at the celebration of the icon in Russia, wrote two canons for this holiday. On some Novgorod icons of the Sign, in addition to the Mother of God with the Eternal Child, the miraculous events of 1170 are also depicted. The miraculous icon for 186 years after the appearance of the sign was in the same Church of the Transfiguration of the Savior on Ilyina Street. In 1356, the Church of the Sign of the Most Holy Theotokos was built for her in Novgorod, which became the cathedral of the Znamensky Monastery.

Numerous copies of the Icon of the Sign are known throughout Russia. Many of them shone with miracles in local churches and were named after the place of the miracles.

ICON OF THE MOTHER OF GOD OF THE SIGN OF ZLATOUSTOVSKAYA

In 1848, cholera raged in Moscow, and the sixty-year-old merchant Herodion Vorobyov fell ill with this disease. Once in a dream he dreamed that he was in the Zlatoust monastery near the porch, and that a monk and a novice were preparing to consecrate something. Then he saw the image of the "Sign" of the Mother of God on the wall and went to venerate it. On the icon, the Divine Infant smiled, and the Mother of God, having pronounced the name of Herodion, gave him from Her hands a crystal vessel to be handed over to the novice.
On February 17, he went to the Zlatoust Monastery for Vespers, where he saw the icon "The Sign" of the Mother of God over the arch of the porch of the Trinity Church. Herodion recognized in her the very one he saw in his dream. At the request of the healed, this icon on March 16 (according to the new style) was removed from the arch and transferred to the Trinity Church. Before the icon, a prayer service was performed with blessing of water and the reading of the Akathist to the Mother of God. Then the image was placed on a lectern in the chapel of St. Innocent of Irkutsk.
The grateful merchant adorned the image with a precious robe, and one woman, who received healing from the icon, made a list of it and put it in the same Trinity Church where the original miraculous icon was located, transferred in 1865 to the cathedral monastery church in the name of St. John Chrysostom.
In the monastery chronicle in 1848 alone, eight miraculous healings from this icon are described.

The Zlatoust icon is written on a linden board and is 53 cm high and 44 cm wide. On the sides of the Mother of God are images of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker and John, Archbishop of Novgorod.
Prayer chants are performed daily in the Zlatoust Monastery in front of the Icon of the Sign of the Mother of God: after the early liturgy in the Trinity Church, and after the late liturgy in the Cathedral Church of Zlatoust. Every Friday in this monastery, in front of the miraculous icon, the Akathist of the Mother of God is also read.

ICON OF THE MOTHER OF GOD OF THE SIGN OF KURSK-ROOT

In the 13th century, during the Tatar invasion, when everyone Russian state was attacked by Khan Batu, the city of Kursk was devastated and desolate. Once, in the vicinity of the city, a hunter noticed an unusual thing lying on the ground. When he lifted it up, he saw that it was an icon similar to the Novgorod icon "Sign". Simultaneously with the appearance of this icon, the first miracle took place - on the place where the icon was lying, a source with force began pure water... This happened on September 21 (new style) 1295. Not daring to leave the icon in the forest, this hunter built a small wooden chapel, where he left the newly-appeared image of the Mother of God.
Soon the residents of the nearby town of Rylsk learned about this and began to visit the place of apparition to worship the new shrine.
Then this image was transferred to Rylsk and placed in a new church in honor of the Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos. But the icon did not stay there for long, miraculously it disappeared and returned to the place of its appearance. Residents of Rylsk repeatedly took it and carried it to the city, but the icon inexplicably returned to its original place. Then everyone understood that the Mother of God favored the place where Her image appeared.

Every year on Friday, the ninth week after Easter, the icon "Sign" was solemnly transferred with a procession from the Kursk Znamensky Cathedral to the place of its appearance in the Root Hermitage, where it remained until September 12 (according to the old style), and then again solemnly returned to Kursk. This procession was established in 1618 to commemorate the transfer of the icon from Moscow to Kursk and to commemorate its original appearance.

The special help of the Mother of God through this icon is associated with important events in the history of Russia: the liberation war of the Russian people during the Polish-Lithuanian invasion of 1612 and Patriotic War 1812
The miraculous icon of the Mother of God "Sign" Kursk-Root in last time stayed on Russian soil on September 14, 1920 in the Crimea, in the troops that fought against the Bolsheviks. Having left Russia in 1920, the holy icon became the "Hodegetria" (Guidebook) of the Russian Diaspora, staying with all the first hierarchs of the Russian Diaspora. Orthodox Church Abroad. Now she is in one of the temples of the New Root Desert near New York (USA). The Kursk Znamensky Cathedral contains a list of the miraculous image.

In Russian Orthodoxy, there are several icons of the Mother of God "Sign":
"Sign" Vladimirskaya; Verkhnetagilskaya "Sign" (1753); The Sign of Seraphim-Ponetaevskaya (1879); "The Sign" Korchemnaya (XVIII); "The Sign" Abalatskaya (1637); Znamenie Zlatoustovskaya (1848); "Sign" Moscow; "The Sign" Solovetskaya; Sign Vologda; The Sign of Tsarskoye Selo (1879); "Sign" Kursk-Korennaya (1295); "Sign" Novgorodskaya (XII).

THE MAJORITY OF THE MOTHER OF GOD IN FRONT OF HER ICON THE SIGN OF KURSK-ROOT

We magnify Thee, Most Holy Virgin, and we honor Thy honest image, and she showed me a glorious sign.

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and what miracles are associated with it

December 10- celebration icon of the Mother of God "Sign" ... This image has been known in Russia since the XII century, or rather since 1170, when the first miracle associated with the icon took place.

Icon of the Mother of God "Sign". Photo diveevo.ru

The first miracle of the icon of the Mother of God "The Sign"

The united forces of Russian appanage princes approached the walls of Novgorod to conquer the city. Novgorodians prepared for a long siege and began to ask the Lord for help. On the third night, the local Archbishop Ilya had a dream that he had to take the image of the Most Holy Theotokos from the church and go out with it to the city wall. He did just that.

At that moment, the troops of the princes fired at the city, and one of the arrows hit the icon. Tears flowed from the eyes of the Mother of God, which horrified the attackers. Inspired by God's support, the Novgorodians rushed to the enemies and defeated them.

Then the archbishop established a feast on the day of the Sign of the Mother of God, which is celebrated to this day.

The second miracle associated with the icon

It happened in 1611. The army of Swedes rushed into Novgorod and intended to take possession of the Znamensky Cathedral, where at that moment the service was going on at the icon. But some unknown force did not allow them to approach the temple, each time throwing the soldiers back. Disappointed, the Swedes retreated and left the city.

Fire-related miracles

Associated with the icon "Sign" and other miracles. For example, in the chronicle sources there is information that when in the XIV century a fire broke out in the wooden church, where the icon was then staying, the fire stopped right next to the face of the Virgin and did not damage the image. After that, a stone church was erected - the Cathedral of the Sign, and the icon "Sign" was transferred there.

The fact that fire has no power over the image was remembered two centuries later. At that time in Novgorod happened again big fire... Houses on several streets burned down, and the townspeople still could not cope with the elements. Then Metropolitan Macarius prayed at the icon of the Mother of God and with it in his hands made the procession. After that, a strong wind blew towards the river and the fire stopped.

It is known that one more protects from fires.

Icon "Sign" - the main shrine of the Novgorod land. Photo 53news.ru

How does the icon of the Mother of God "Sign" help?

Before this image of the Mother of God, they ask for peace, deliverance from disasters, internecine wars and the invasion of enemies.

It is also believed that the "Sign" icon, if placed in a house, will help protect it from fire and envious people, return lost things and improve relations between relatives. Often, those who want to find their missing relatives also pray at the face of the Mother of God.

Like other icons of the Theotokos, for example, the Icon of the Sign has the power of healing. It can help with eye diseases, including blindness, cholera and severe mental ailments.

Icon of the Mother of God of the Sign

Icon of the Mother of God Sign. Prayer.

The Icon of the Mother of God of the Sign received glory in the twelfth century. In those days, there was a war on Novgorod land, and those who defended the land saw that they had less strength and capabilities. Then they began to pray to the Mother of God, God, asking Higher powers help. After three days of continuous prayer, the archbishop heard a voice tell him that it was necessary to take an icon of the Mother of God in the church and place it on the city wall. Even after everything was done, the enemy did not retreat from the city. Even one arrow hit the icon. The face of the Mother of God turned to the city, watering it with tears. Seeing this sign, the enemies were frightened, and many lost their sight. They saw nothing and fired in different directions, killing each other. Thanks to this, it was not difficult for the Novgorodians to defeat the enemies. Since that time, a separate church was built for the icon in Novgorod, in which it began to be kept.

The Feast of the Icon of the Sign is celebrated on December 10th.

On the icon of the Sign, the Most Holy Theotokos is depicted with outstretched arms directed towards the sky. In the left hand of the Child we see a scroll, and right hand he shows a blessing gesture. There is different variants icons where the Mother of God is depicted in full height, and where and to the waist.

Prayer in front of the icon The Sign is primarily read in order to protect oneself from tragedy or disaster. The image of the Most Holy Theotokos will protect the house from enemies, both visible and invisible. There will be no fires in the house where the Icon of the Sign is located. Prayers before the icon of the Virgin The Sign will help to establish family relationships, as well as, if you have lost things, return them.

The special significance of the icon is that it will help to establish bad relationship between neighbors and even between countries, to protect against conflicts.

Making requests to the icon will help the sick to heal from their diseases. There is evidence that she helped people who prayed for a long time and sincerely, get rid of eye diseases and even blindness. If you are going on a trip, it is better to pray before the icon of the Sign.

The images of the Mother of God on the icons are very a large number of, at the same time, they are similar in their composition, which is why some people may confuse the images. There is one more icon that is similar to the Icon of the Sign - the icon of the Tikhvin Mother of God. But these are completely different images, they have their own history and their own meaning.

The icon of the Mother of God "Sign" is one of the most revered in Orthodox world... The celebration in honor of the icon takes place on December 10. Site tochka.net will tell you about the history of this icon and about prayer to it.

The icon of the Most Holy Theotokos, depicted with the gesture of intercessory prayer (Oranta) - with outstretched arms and open palms - is called the Sign as a sign of the Mother of God's mercy to people.