Antique icon Madonna of Kazan
Antique icon depicting the Madonna of Kazan, early 20th century. From Russia, restored. Size cm 21X27
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Antique icon depicting the Madonna of Kazan, early 20th century. From Russia, restored.
This icon is one of the largest and most venerated in Russia. It was found on July 21, 1579, immediately after the city was taken by Ivan IV the Terrible. The feast of the icon is celebrated on this very day. The day before the city was taken, much of it was razed to the ground by fire. Among others, the house of the Onuchin family was also destroyed. Matrena Onichin, an 8-year-old girl, then had a vision of the Virgin Mary in which she was ordered to look for her icon in the place where the house had previously been. The icon was found buried deep in the ground. In that same year, at the place where the icon was found, Tsar Ivan IV founded a monastery dedicated to the Virgin and Matrena became a nun in that monastery. The icon became famous for many miracles, especially for healing the blind. Russian soldiers were protected by the icon twice: against the Poles in 1612 and during the siege of Leningrad in 1941. The two most famous copies of the Kazan icon are found in the Elokhovsky Cathedral in Moscow and the Vladimirsky Cathedral in St. Petersburg. Traditionally in Russia it is customary to give this icon as a gift to newlyweds.
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- wood