The Cypriot Icon of the Mother of God
Commemorated on the 1st Sunday of the Great Lent, July 9
The Cypriot Icon
of the Mother of God appears thus: the Mother of God sits upon a throne
with the Divine-Infant in Her arms, and at Her sides are two angels, holding
branches.
The holy icon
manifest itself in the year 392 on the Island of Cyprus, and is situated there
in a monastery. Reknown venerable copies from it are at the Moscow Uspensky
cathedral, and in the Nikolo-Golutvinsk church in the village of Stromyna,
Moscow diocese.
© 1996-2001 by translator Fr. S. Janos.