Canonical image of the Iveron icon of the Mother of God. Iveron Icon photo, meaning, history, what helps, prayer
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Over the entire period of its existence in Russia, not one of the revered icons of the Mother of God has produced as many miraculous healings as have been performed from the Iveron Icon. She always stood on guard, like an ambulance to people in troubles, misfortunes and illnesses. And today great grace pours out from the miraculous copies of the Iveron Icon. Everyone who comes to them with faith and hope receives help and healing.
The Iveron Icon is the patroness of Moscow. This is an image that has greeted people arriving in the Russian capital for many centuries. The icon, revered in Russia, is a copy of an ancient image that is kept in Greece on Mount Athos, in the Iveron Monastery.
The history of the Athos icon dates back to the 9th century. When the iconoclast emperor Theophilus ruled in Byzantium. The soldiers he sent everywhere to destroy holy icons came to one pious widow, in whose house the mentioned icon was kept. One of the soldiers hit the cheek of the Mother of God depicted on the icon with a sword. To his horror, blood began to flow from the wound. Struck by the miracle, the warrior fell to his knees with repentance and left the heresy (and later accepted monasticism). The widow decided to hide the holy icon in order to save it from desecration. The pious woman let her into the sea and the icon floated on the waves in an upright position. The son of a pious widow subsequently went to Athos, where he spent time in monastic exploits. From him the Athonite monks learned about the icon that his mother had launched. This legend was preserved among the elders.
Many years later, the holy icon appeared “in a pillar of fire” on the morna near the Iveron monastery. At this time, the holy elder Gabriel lived in the Iversky Monastery. The Mother of God appeared to him in a dream and ordered him to inform the superiors and brethren that She wanted to give them Her icon for help and intercession, commanding the elder to approach the icon on the water without fear. The Monk Gabriel walked with faith straight through the water, took the icon and carried it to the shore.
The monks brought her into the monastery and placed her on the altar. The next day the icon was not there. After a long search, it was found on the wall above the monastery gates and taken to its original place. However, in the morning the icon was again above the gate. This happened several times. After this, a temple was built above the gates of the monastery, in which the holy icon remains to this day. By the name of the monastery it is called Iverskaya, and by its location above the gates - Goalkeeper.
Eight centuries have passed. Archimandrite Pachomius of the Iveron monastery went to Moscow to collect offerings in favor of the Athos monasteries. Returning, the grateful Pachomius ordered to gather all his brethren. From evening until morning, the monks performed great prayer singing together, blessed water with holy relics and poured it over the Iveron icon; then, collecting the water in a bowl, they poured it over a new cypress board. Having again collected the water in a bowl, they served the Divine Liturgy, and then gave this water to the best icon painter. He mixed holy water with paints and, maintaining a strict fast, began to paint an icon. The monks, to help him, celebrated all-night vigils and Liturgies twice a week. This is how a new Iveron image appeared, which was no different from the original.
In Moscow, the icon was solemnly greeted by Patriarch Joseph, Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich with his entire family, clergy, boyars and people. Then Tsarina Maria Ilyinichna took this icon into her chambers, and after her death the icon passed to her daughter Sofya Alekseevna, who became a monk in the Smolensk Novodevichy Convent. The holy icon remains there to this day.
In memory of the meeting of the Iveron Icon at the Resurrection Gate in Moscow, a chapel was built. Another list was written for her, which received the name Moskovsky. Soon miracles began to happen from him, and a handwritten book was kept in the chapel to record them. How much the residents of Moscow and all of Russia who came to the capital revered the holy icon could be seen from the fact that, from early morning until evening, the chapel was constantly crowded with worshipers. In addition to general prayer services, custom prayer services were served almost continuously. At that time, it was hardly possible to find a person in Moscow who, throughout his life, would not resort to prayer to the holy icon and would not find hope and consolation in this prayer.
In July 1929, the chapel was closed and then destroyed. And in November 1994 His Holiness Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow and All Rus' consecrated the foundation stone of the chapel being restored. In 1996, work on the restoration of the chapel and the Resurrection Gate was completed and the Iveron Icon of the Mother of God, painted specifically for this occasion, was brought to Moscow from the Iveron Monastery on Athos. The holy icon returned to the main gate of the city, which is patronized by the Mother of God.
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Healing prayer before the Iveron Icon of the Mother of God
The miracles from this ancient icon are so numerous that they began to be recorded in a special book. The elderly man suffered from such severe memory loss that he did not recognize his family and did not understand what was being said to him. Myrrh-streaming Iveron Icon and miraculous prayer The Mother of God cured a patient from sclerosis. A small icon placed in a car saved the driver from a terrible accident; another time, the same small icon placed on a deep cut was able to stop severe blood loss. Sincere prayers to the Iveron Mother of God relieve infertility, heal eye diseases, and help get rid of drunkenness.
Sincere prayer to the Iveron Mother of God
Powerful Prayers The Iveron Mother of God not only heals illnesses, but also helps in everyday affairs. With a miraculous prayer, farmers ask the Iveron Icon for soil fertility and protection of crops from fire. The blessings of the Mother of God are asked before starting any business. She also helps in family matters- restores mutual understanding between spouses. It should be remembered that the Mother of God is formidable towards unrepentant sinners, therefore the Orthodox prayer to the Iveron Icon of the Mother of God must be sincere, and the person asking for help must observe Christian commandments.
Text Orthodox prayer Iveron Icon of the Mother of God
Oh, Most Holy Lady and Lady Theotokos, accept our unworthy prayer and save us from slander evil people and from vain death, and grant us repentance before the end, have mercy on our prayer, and grant us joy in a sad place. And deliver us, Lady, from all misfortune and adversity, sorrow and sorrow and from all evil. And make us, your sinful servants, worthy to be at the right hand at the second coming of Your Son, Christ our God, and as our heirs to be made worthy to be the kingdom of heaven and eternal life, with all the saints throughout the endless ages of ages. Amen.
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The Icon of the Mother of God, famous for its miracles in the areas of the Mother of God - on Athos, in Iveria (Georgia) and in Russia - is named after the Iveron Monastery on Holy Mount Athos.
Iveron Icon of the Mother of God. 1st half XI or early XII century Starting salary XVI century (Iveron Monastery on Athos)
The first news about it dates back to the 9th century - the times of iconoclasm, when, by order of the heretical authorities, holy icons in houses and churches were destroyed and desecrated.
A certain pious widow who lived near Nicaea kept the treasured image of the Mother of God. It soon opened. The armed soldiers who came wanted to take away the icon, one of them hit the shrine with a spear, and blood flowed from the face of the Most Pure One. Having prayed to the Lady with tears, the woman went to the sea and lowered the icon into the water; the standing image moved along the waves.
They learned about the icon with a pierced face, floating on the sea, on Athos: the only son of this woman took monasticism on the Holy Mountain and labored near the place where the ship carrying the Mother of God Herself to Cyprus once landed, and where later, in the 10th century, the Georgian nobleman John and the Byzantine commander Torniky founded the Iveron monastery.
One day, the inhabitants of the Iversky Monastery saw a sky-high pillar of fire on the sea - it rose above the image of the Mother of God standing on the water. The monks wanted to take the icon, but the closer the boat sailed, the further the image went into the sea... The brothers began to pray and fervently asked the Lord to grant the icon to the monastery.
The next night, the Most Holy Theotokos appeared in a dream to Elder Gabriel, who was distinguished by a strict ascetic life and a childishly simple disposition, and said: “Tell the abbot and the brethren that I want to give them My icon as protection and help, then enter the sea and walk with faith waves - then everyone will know My love and favor towards your monastery.”
The next morning, the monks went to the shore with prayer singing, the elder fearlessly walked on the water and was honored to receive the miraculous icon. They placed it in a chapel on the shore and prayed before it for three days, and then transferred it to the cathedral church (in the place where the icon stood, a source of clean, sweet water opened).
The next day the icon was discovered above the monastery gates. She was taken to her previous place, but she again found herself above the gate. This happened several times.
Finally, the Most Holy Theotokos appeared to Elder Gabriel and said: “Tell the brethren: I do not want to be guarded, but I myself will be your Guardian in this life and in the future. I asked God for My mercy, and as long as you see My icon in the monastery, the grace and mercy of My Son towards you will not become scarce.”
Iveron Monastery on Mount Athos
The monks built a gate church in honor of the Mother of God, the Guardian of the monastery, in which the miraculous icon remains to this day. The icon is called Portaitissa - Goalkeeper, Gatekeeper, and after the place of its appearance on Athos - Iverskaya.
According to legend, the appearance of the icon took place on March 31, Tuesday of Easter week (according to other sources, April 27). In the Iversky Monastery, a celebration in her honor takes place on Tuesday Holy Week; brethren with procession goes to the seashore, where Elder Gabriel received the icon.
In the history of the monastery, there are many cases of the gracious help of the Mother of God: the miraculous replenishment of wheat, wine and oil, the healing of the sick, the deliverance of the monastery from barbarians.
So, one day the Persians besieged the monastery from the sea. The monks appealed to the Mother of God for help. Suddenly a terrible storm arose and the enemy ships sank, leaving only Amir’s commander alive. Struck by the miracle of God's wrath, he repented, asked to pray for the forgiveness of his sins, and donated a lot of gold and silver for the construction of the monastery walls.
Iconography
The iconography of the Iveron Icon is a special version of the “Hodegetria”, which in Byzantine art received the name “᾿Ελεοῦσα” (Russian - “Merciful”). The board is elongated, the figures fill almost the entire space of the ark. The image of the Mother of God is half-length, the head is slightly inclined towards the Infant Christ, the right hand is raised in a prayer gesture at chest level.
Myrrh-streaming Iveron Icon of the Mother of God, Montreal
The Divine Infant sits on the Mother’s left hand high and straight, slightly turned towards Her, his head tilted back slightly. Right hand The Baby is stretched forward towards the hand of the Mother of God with a blessing gesture with two fingers; in his left He holds a scroll, resting vertically on his knee.
The position of the hands of the Mother of God, the parallel semicircular folds of Her maforia visually create a kind of container - a semblance of a throne for the Infant Christ, which corresponds to Byzantine theological and poetic ideas about the image of the Mother of God - a temple, a container of the Incontainable and is reflected in many Byzantine monuments arts XI-XII centuries
The manner of painting the faces is peculiar: with large, massive features, wide open almond-shaped eyes; the gaze is directed forward, the expression of the faces is concentrated. A significant iconographic detail is the image on the face of the Mother of God of a wound from which blood is oozing.
At the beginning of the 16th century, the icon was decorated with a chased silver gilded frame of Georgian work, leaving only the faces of the Mother of God and the Child exposed. Apparently, the frame quite accurately reproduces the iconography of the ancient image, but in the margins it is supplemented with chased images of half-figures of the 12 apostles.
Iveron Icon – Russian pages of history
In the 17th century, they learned about the Iveron Icon in Rus'. Archimandrite Nikon of the Novospassky Monastery, the future Patriarch, turned to Archimandrite Pachomius of the Iveron Athos Monastery with a request to send an exact list of the miraculous image.
“...Having gathered all their brethren...they performed a great prayer service from evening until daylight, and blessed the water with holy relics, and poured holy water over the miraculous icon Holy Mother of God old Portaitissa, and they collected that holy water into a great basin, and having collected it, they poured the packs on a new board, which they made all of the cypress tree, and again they collected that holy water into the basin, and then they served the Divine and Holy Liturgy with great boldness, and after the holy During the liturgy, they gave that holy water and holy relics to the icon painter, monk, priest and spiritual father, Mr. Iamblichus Romanov, so that he, mixing the holy water and holy relics with paints, could paint the holy icon.”
The icon painter ate food only on Saturday and Sunday, and the brethren performed all-night vigil and liturgy. “And that (newly painted) icon differs in nothing from the first icon: neither in length, nor in breadth, nor in face...”
Meeting of the copy of the Iveron Icon of the Mother of God from the holy Mount Athos in the Ascension Church, Pavlovsky Posad, April 2010.
On October 13, 1648, the icon was greeted in Moscow by Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich, Patriarch Joseph and crowds of Orthodox people. (This icon was owned by Tsarina Maria Ilyinichna and her daughter Tsarevna Sofya Alekseevna; after the death of the princess, the image remained in the Novodevichy Convent. Currently it is in the State Historical Museum.)
According to legend, the monks who were carrying the shrine from Mount Athos did not have enough money to cross the Danube. They had already decided to return to the monastery, but the Mother of God Herself helped them - She appeared to the rich Greek Manuel and ordered him to pay the Muslim carriers for the monks.
Another list, by order of Patriarch Nikon, was delivered from Athos to Moscow, decorated with a precious robe, and in 1656 transferred to Valdai, to the newly built Iversky Mother of God Svyatoozersky Monastery (after the revolution, the icon disappeared without a trace).
Iveron Icon of the Mother of God. 1995 Icon painter Hierom. Luke (Iverskaya Chapel, Moscow)
From the icon located in royal family, another list was made; in 1669 it was installed in the chapel at the gate overlooking the main Tverskaya street of Moscow. The goalkeeper became one of the most revered shrines, the Intercessor Mother of Muscovites.
The winners entered Red Square through the Resurrection Gate; Kings and queens, having arrived in the old capital, first of all went to bow to Iverskaya - like everyone who came to the city. Muscovites went to the chapel to pray for every urgent need; They took the icon from house to house, served prayers in front of it, and received it by faith: the Iveron Goalkeeper became famous for her healings of the sick and many miracles.
In 1929 the chapel was destroyed, and in 1931 the Resurrection Gate was demolished. The icon was transferred to the Church of the Resurrection of Christ in Sokolniki, where it remains to this day.
In November 1994, His Holiness Patriarch Alexy II consecrated the foundation of the Iveron Chapel and the Resurrection Gate in the same place, and less than a year later they were restored. On October 25, 1995, a new copy of the miraculous Iveron icon, written by an icon painter monk with the blessing of the Iveron abbot, arrived in Moscow from Athos. The Good Goalkeeper returned to the main gates of Her city.
Icon of the Mother of God “Iverskaya” "Goalkeeper"
February 25 (February 12, old style), October 26 (13), Tuesday of Bright Week
Description of the icon of the Mother of God “Iverskaya” “Goalkeeper”:
In the 9th century, during the heresy of iconoclasm, near the city of Nicaea (modern Türkiye), there lived a pious widow and her son, in whose house there was a miraculous icon of the Mother of God. When the soldiers sent to seek out and destroy the holy icons of the Mother of God entered the widow’s house, she, in the hope of preserving the shrine, begged the soldiers to leave the icon of the Mother of God until the morning, promising them a reward for this.
The selfish warriors agreed, but at the same time one of them, leaving, hit the face of the Mother of God with a spear, and blood immediately flowed from the pierced icon of the Mother of God. The amazed warriors left. Wanting to save the miraculous icon of the Mother of God from desecration, the widow took it to the sea and lowered it into the water. The icon of the Mother of God did not lie down on the water, but, standing upright, moved across the sea.
About two centuries have passed since then. One day, the monks of the Iveron Monastery on Athos saw a pillar of fire reaching to the very sky on the sea, at the base of which was an icon of the Mother of God standing on the water. After the prayer service, the monastery elder Gabriel, at the command of the Mother of God who appeared to him in a dream, walked on the water as if it were dry land, accepted the icon of the Mother of God and placed it in the temple.
But the next day the icon of the Mother of God was not found in the place where it had been placed, but was discovered above the monastery gate. The image was taken to its original place, but the next morning it was again above the gate. This happened several times. Finally, the Most Holy Theotokos again appeared to the Monk Gabriel, saying that she did not want to be kept by the monks, but wanted to be their Guardian.
The monks built a gate church, in which the miraculous icon of the Mother of God remains to this day. By the name of the monastery, this icon of the Mother of God is called Iverskaya, and by the place of its location above the monastery gates - “Goalkeeper” or “Portaitissa”.
The history of the Iversky Monastery has preserved many cases of the miraculous help of the Mother of God through Her miraculous icon: the deliverance of the monastery from barbarians, the miraculous replenishment of food supplies, the healing of the sick.
The miraculous icon of the Mother of God was well known in Russia. During the reign of Alexei Mikhailovich (1645–1676), Archimandrite Nikon of the Novospassky Monastery (later Patriarch of All Rus') turned to Archimandrite Pachomius of the Iveron Athos Monastery with a request to send a list (copy) of the miraculous icon of the Most Holy Theotokos.
The priest Iamblichus Romanov was blessed to paint the icon of the Mother of God for Russia. Before this, the entire brethren of the monastery (three hundred and sixty-five monks) performed a great prayer service from evening until dawn and blessed the water with holy relics. They poured holy water over the miraculous icon of the Most Holy Theotokos “Portaitissa” and again poured it over a new board prepared for writing the icon, made of cypress wood. After the Divine Liturgy, holy water and particles of holy relics were handed over to the icon painter, who, mixing them with paints, began to paint the icon of the Mother of God.
On October 13, 1648, the icon was brought to Moscow and solemnly greeted at the Resurrection Gate by many people, Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich and Patriarch Joseph.
When Nikon ascended the patriarchal throne, he planned to build a monastery on one of the islands of Lake Valdai in honor of the Iveron Icon of the Mother of God, in the likeness of the Athos Iveron Monastery. Skilled painters were sent to Athos to paint a new copy of the ancient Iveron Icon of the Mother of God and draw up an accurate plan of the Iveron monastery. Through the efforts of Russian architects, the Iveron Mother of God Svyatoozersky Monastery was founded in Valdai, to which in 1656 the newly painted Iveron Icon of the Mother of God was brought from Athos.
Other revered copies of the Iveron Icon of the Mother of God, installed in the Iveron Chapel at the Resurrection Gate, were also written on Athos. Thousands of Orthodox Christians from all over Russia came to venerate the miraculous image (one icon never left its place, while the other was taken from house to house in Moscow in a special carriage). Arriving in Moscow, Russian sovereigns, before entering the Kremlin, always prayed in the chapel at the Resurrection Gate in front of the miraculous icon of the Most Holy Theotokos.
In 1929, the chapel was destroyed, the icon of the Mother of God disappeared, but the mobile icon was preserved and is now in the Church of the Resurrection of Christ in Sokolniki. Nowadays, by the grace of God, the chapel has been recreated, and Orthodox Russia On October 26, 1995, I again encountered the image of the Iveron Mother of God, painted on Holy Mount Athos.
There are icons of the Iveron Mother of God with a wound on the right cheek of the Mother of God, oozing drops of blood, and without a wound.
At the end of the twentieth century, the myrrh-streaming Iveron Icon of the Blessed Virgin Mary from Montreal, whose custodian was the Orthodox Spaniard Joseph Muñoz Cortes, became famous. Unfortunately, in October 1997, after the villainous murder of Joseph, the miraculous image disappeared without a trace.
Celebration of the miraculous Iveron Icon of the Mother of God in Russkaya Orthodox Church is performed three times: February 12/25 (this day is associated with the transfer of the copy of the Iveron icon to the monastery in Valdai), October 13/26 (the day of the solemn meeting of the Athos shrine in Moscow in 1648) and on Tuesday of Bright Week (precisely on Tuesday of Bright Week, According to legend, there was an appearance of the icon on the waters in front of the monks of the Iveron Monastery).
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Prayers to the Most Holy Theotokos in front of Her icon, called “Iverskaya”
Before the Iveron Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos they pray for deliverance from various misfortunes and for consolation in troubles, from fire, for increasing the fertility of the earth, for deliverance from grief and sadness, for the healing of physical and mental ailments, in difficult circumstances, for help to farmers.
First prayer
O Most Holy Virgin, Mother of the Lord, Queen of Heaven and Earth! Hear the much-painful sighing of our souls, look down from Thy holy height upon us, who with faith and love worship Thy most pure image. Behold, we are immersed in sins and overwhelmed by sorrows, looking at Your image, as if You were alive and living with us, we offer our humble prayers. Imams have no other help, no other intercession, no consolation except You, O Mother, of all those who mourn and are burdened! Help us, the weak, satisfy our sorrow, guide us, the erring, on the right path, heal and save the hopeless, grant us the rest of our lives to spend in peace and silence, grant us a Christian death, and at the Last Judgment of Your Son, the merciful Intercessor will appear to us, and always We sing, magnify and glorify Thee, as the good Intercessor of the Christian race, with all those who have pleased God. Amen.
Second prayer
O Most Holy Lady Lady Theotokos, accept our unworthy prayer, and save us from the slander of evil people and from vain death, and grant us repentance before the end, have mercy on our prayer, and grant us a place of joy in sorrow. And deliver us, Lady, from all misfortune and adversity, sorrow and sorrow and from all evil. And make us, Thy sinful servants, worthy to be at the right hand at the second coming of Thy Son, Christ our God, and to be our heirs, to be made worthy of the Kingdom of Heaven and eternal life, with all the saints throughout the endless ages of ages. Amen.
Troparion, tone 1
From Your holy icon, O Lady Theotokos, healing and healing are given abundantly to those who come to her with faith and love. Thus, visit my weakness and have mercy on my soul, O Good One, and heal my body with Your grace, O Most Pure One.
Kontakion, tone 8
Even though Your holy icon, Mother of God, was thrown into the sea from a widow who could not save her from her enemies, the guardian of Athos and the goalkeeper of the Iveron monastery appeared, frightening enemies and in the Orthodox Russian country who reveres You, delivering You from all troubles and misfortunes.
Greatness
We magnify You, Most Holy Virgin, and honor Your holy image, through which you heal our illnesses and raise our souls to God.
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Akathist to the Holy Mother of God in front of her Icon, called "Iveron"
Kontakion 1
To the chosen Voivode, our Lady Theotokos, we offer praise to You, Thy servants, for by the coming of Thy venerable image we have acquired a strong shield, an invincible wall and a vigilant guard. You, who have an invincible power, cover and protect us, Lady, from all enemies, visible and invisible, and deliver us from all harm, mental and physical, so we call You: Rejoice, good Goalkeeper, who opens the doors of heaven to the faithful.
Ikos 1
An intercessor angel was sent to quickly say to the Mother of God, when the lot of apostolic service fell to Her in the lands of Iverstei: “Do not be separated from Jerusalem, the lot that fell to You will be enlightened in the last days, and You will also work in the lands where God wills You.” In the same way, rejoice, because the Gospel is preached; Rejoice, Her idolatrous charm will be abolished. Rejoice, for the power of the prince of darkness will be destroyed; Rejoice, for the Kingdom of Christ will be established. Rejoice, you who have fallen into the darkness of idolatry to the light of the Gospel; Rejoice, having brought the children of God from slavery to the devil into freedom of glory. Rejoice, ready Servant of Your Son and God; Rejoice, you who heal the disobedience of Eve through obedience. Rejoice, height of virtues; Rejoice, depth of humility. Rejoice, even unfaithfulness knows the Creator; Rejoice, Her faithful ones are adopted as sons of the Father. Rejoice, good Goalkeeper, who opens the doors of heaven to the faithful.
Kontakion 2
Seeing the Holy Virgin God’s wondrous and new providence for Herself, as a servant of the Lord, ever ready to do His will, cry out: Alleluia.
Ikos 2
The incomprehensible mind of the angelic verb is reasonable to You, Most Pure One, creating the Lord, direct Your procession to Mount Athos, where You preached the Gospel, and thus Your lot appeared. We joyfully cry out: Rejoice, you who sanctified Athos with Your coming; Rejoice, you who have cast down the idols. Rejoice, you who planted the true faith there; Rejoice, you who have driven away unbelief. Rejoice, you who have chosen this Mountain as your lot; Rejoice, you who promised grace to this place. Rejoice, faithful ones who live in her, Giver of earthly blessings; Rejoice, Helper of their eternal salvation. Rejoice, warm Intercessor for those living in Your lot; Rejoice, all their enemies are intimidated. Rejoice, you who promised the mercy of your Son to this place until the end of the age; Rejoice, foretold His grace to be everlasting. Rejoice, good Goalkeeper, who opens the doors of heaven to the faithful.
Kontakion 3
The power of the Most High interceded with the Mother of God of autumn, the Holy Mountain and its abundance and wilds, like a vast village, showing everyone in monastic life who wants to reap salvation, and never sing: Alleluia.
Ikos 3
Having a providence for Your lot, the people of the Iveron land, You set in the place where You Yourself landed on Mount Athos, the abode of their family, in a quiet refuge for those seeking salvation, wanting to give her Your icon as a shield and fence, so that they all cry: Rejoice, you who sent a preacher Gospels to the land of Iveron; Rejoice, you who have turned this country from the deceit of idolatry to the light of Christ. Rejoice, thou who hast given the wondrous vine to Nina of unfading branches; Rejoice, from her you brought forth a cluster of miracles and good faith. Rejoice, you who planted a spiritual garden on Athos; Rejoice, you who poured out a stream of spiritual enlightenment from him to the land of Iverstia. Rejoice, Euthymia, golden-speaking lips; Rejoice, invincible fortress Tornikia. Rejoice, strengthening of all the pious; Rejoice, guardian of the monks. Rejoice, quiet haven for those seeking salvation; Rejoice, you who prepare eternal rest for them. Rejoice, good Goalkeeper, who opens the doors of heaven to the faithful.
Kontakion 4
I stormed inside with doubtful thoughts, the honest widow, even in Nicaea, was dismayed, seeing with the spear of the iconoclast warrior the holy and revered icon of the Mother of God was pierced and the aby shed blood and, overcome by fear, so that the holy icon would not be desecrated, with a prayer she was cast into the sea. Having seen the way right at the top of the water and flowing towards the West, cry out with joy: Alleluia.
Ikos 4
Seeing the monks of the Holy Mountain appearing in the sea like a flame, like a pillar of fire, its top reaching to Heaven, like a shining sun, and in the night they flowed to the edge of the sea and, seeing the holy icon of the Mother of God carried across the sea by power from above, they cried out to the Most Blessed One: Rejoice, Kupino, Foreseen by the legislator; Rejoice, pillar of fire, guide those who are in darkness. Rejoice, ladder reaching to Heaven, with which God descended; Rejoice, bridge, lead those who are from earth to Heaven. Rejoice, dawn of the mysterious day; Rejoice, Star that reveals the Sun. Rejoice, you who gave birth to the Ineffable Light; Rejoice, for you who taught only one thing. Rejoice, clothed in the sun, shining with grace and glory throughout the entire universe; Rejoice, lightning, enlightening souls and illuminating the meanings of the faithful. Rejoice, lightness, shining in the darkness; Rejoice, thou shalt shine forth enlightenment. Rejoice, good Goalkeeper, who opens the doors of heaven to the faithful.
Kontakion 5
You want to give your God-bearing icon to the Iverstaya monastery, you said to the Mother of God to St. Gabriel: “Go with the face of the monks to the shore of the sea, go down into the abyss and receive My icon.” He, who is embraced by faith and love, walks on water as well as on dry land, and is accepted into his arms and reaches a treasure otherwise unattainable, the property of the monks of his Iberian family, rejoicing from the waist up: Alleluia.
Ikos 5
Having seen the icon of the Mother of God many times from the temple at the top of the monastery gates onto the city wall by an invisible force, the monks of the century were horrified and standing, calling to her like this: Rejoice, who deigned to give us the holy icon; Rejoice, you who promised us her protection to be. Rejoice, you who have shown Your love for our monastery; Rejoice, you who showed good thoughts about her. Rejoice, our help is in a foreign country; Rejoice, there is consolation in our journey. Rejoice, God's favor is upon us; Rejoice, our boldness towards God. Rejoice, deliverance of our tears; Rejoice, Protectress of the orphans. Rejoice, our fence; Rejoice, our only Joy. Rejoice, good Goalkeeper, who opens the doors of heaven to the faithful.
Kontakion 6
The preacher of Gabriel doing His will, you advertised to him, the Lady: I did not come to be kept from you, but may I be your guardian not only in the present, but also in the future. Behold, I give you a sign: until you see My icon in the monastery, the grace of My Son and mercy will not fail you, so that everyone may cry out to Him: Alleluia.
Ikos 6
Great joy arose to those who heard Your promises, O Mother of God, and to You, the Heavenly Goalkeeper, a temple at the gates of the monastery with joy the monks erected and cried out like this: Rejoice, our Guardian in the present age; Rejoice, our Representative in the future. Rejoice, you who teach us the fear of God, Rejoice, who instruct us on the path of virtue. Rejoice, our boldness and hope; Rejoice, our hope and protection. Rejoice, you who bowed down the compassion of your Son to us; Rejoice, proclaiming His grace to be with us endlessly. Rejoice, you who gave the holy icon as a pledge of mercy; Rejoice, you who gave her the gift of miracles. Rejoice, you who reflect all evil from the monastery; Rejoice, you who open the entrance to all good things. Rejoice, good Goalkeeper, who opens the doors of heaven to the faithful.
Kontakion 7
Sometimes the wicked Amira wants to destroy the Iveron monastery and scatter the herd of monks gathered there; soon she will recognize the strong intercession of the monastery from the Mother of God, seeing her ships mired in the depths of the sea and her warriors lost. And he came with humility; giving silver and evil to the monastery, asking for prayers. The foreigners, seeing this, cried out to God: Alleluia.
Ikos 7
New and countless miracles were shown by the Mother of God, in the monastery, replenishing the shortage of wine, torment and oil, healing demons, granting walking to the lame, healing cabbage soup to the blind and healing every ailment, yes, seeing miracles this, they sing to You: Rejoice, Chosen Commander, conquering enemies; Rejoice, quick help to those who call upon Thee. Rejoice, you who do not despise our prayers; Rejoice, you who do not retreat from Your promises. Rejoice, you who transform the sorrow of the monastery into joy; Rejoice, replenishing the depletion of the monastery. Rejoice, recovery of sight for the blind; Rejoice, you who walk with the lame. Rejoice, Healer of all the weak; Rejoice, Comforter of all who mourn. Rejoice, for you do not cease providing and saving us; Rejoice, for you are delivering us from so many troubles. Rejoice, good Goalkeeper, who opens the doors of heaven to the faithful.
Kontakion 8
The Iveron monastery, strangely covered from the icon of the Mother of God, heard Patriarch Nikon, longing for the Russian country to receive Her grace; For this reason, having created a monastery in honor of the glorious image, carefully ask for an image of the miraculous image of the Mother of God, so that, protected by Her protection, they cry out to God: Alleluia.
Ikos 8
All beings in the Highest, but also not retreating below, You deigned, O Mother of God, just as the blessing of Mount Athos was granted to the Monk Anthony of old for the establishment of the Pechersk monastery, to grant Your grace to the new monastery in the Russian country, with which You blessed Athos, in the likeness of Your honorable image; We also cry out to Ti: Rejoice, covering the Russian countries, broadening the clouds; Rejoice, the Orthodox faith is protected and affirmed in it. Rejoice, unshakable pillar of the Orthodox Church; Rejoice, denunciation of heresies and schisms. Rejoice, thou illuminating the whole country with the bright rays of miraculous icons; Rejoice, you who exude gifts of healing and mercies from them. Rejoice, intimidation of enemies; Rejoice, joy of the saints.
Rejoice, praise of the priests; Rejoice, Teacher of monks. Rejoice, salvation of our entire family. Rejoice, good Goalkeeper, who opens the doors of heaven to the faithful.
Kontakion 9
Having every diligence to paint the honest image of the merciful Goalkeeper, the host of Iveron fasters performs prayer singing; He washes the deck with water from the wonderful icon, on which an honest image is depicted, and sanctifies the Venerable Jamblichus, who, having labored in fasting, prayer and vigil with all the brethren, wrote off the wax, holy water and consecrated relics of the honest image of the Mother of God, taking out the prayer and crying out to God: Alleluia .
Ikos 9
The prophets of many prophecies, like voiceless fish, we see about You, Mother of God: they are perplexed as to how to properly praise all Your miracles, revealed to our race from Your holy icon: even more on the way to the Russian country, this miracle worker, commanded the pious Manuel to give a ransom to the infidels who rebuke the procession of the holy icon to the Russian country, and giving it exclusively to him afterwards. We, marveling, truly cry out to Ti: Rejoice, inexhaustible source of miracles; Rejoice, Giver of all mercy. Rejoice, always warm Intercessor to God for us; Rejoice, His providences for us are a treasure. Rejoice, refuge for those in trouble; Rejoice, consolation to those who mourn. Rejoice, healing of the sick; Rejoice, strengthener of the weak. Rejoice, intercession of widows; Rejoice, merciful Mother of the orphans. Rejoice, conversion of those who are astray to the path of truth; Rejoice, calling sinners to repentance. Rejoice, good Goalkeeper, who opens the doors of heaven to the faithful.
Kontakion 10
Wanting to save many people from troubles and sorrows, you, O Mother of God, exude an endless source of mercy from Your icon to our family: behold, in the capital city of Moscow, the good Goalkeeper appears to all who worship You, giving quick help, and in the new monastery of Iversty, streams of grace flow from Your icon You are issuing, and in other cities, abodes and places, those who honor You fulfill your useful request. Moreover, glorifying God, who gave us such grace, we cry out to Him: Alleluia.
Ikos 10
Thou art a wall to the monastic rite, to the Mother of God, and to all who resort to Thee; for the Creator of Heaven and earth, dwell in Your virgin womb, teach all zealots of purity and chastity to proclaim to You: Rejoice, tattered vessel of virginity; Rejoice, purest image of chastity. Rejoice, devil of seedless disgrace; Rejoice, Unbrided Bride. Rejoice, you who gave birth to the Sower of Purity; Rejoice, you who united the faithful of the Lord. Rejoice, quick Helper in the storm of temptation; Rejoice, you who reflect the enemy’s accusations. Rejoice, you who drive away the darkness of harmful passions; Rejoice, purifying thoughts. Rejoice, you who teach us to despise earthly pleasures; Rejoice, you who guide minds and hearts to the Heavenly One. Rejoice, good Goalkeeper, who opens the doors of heaven to the faithful.
Kontakion 11
All singing is conquered, striving to meet the multitude of Thy bounties: equal to the sand of the songs we bring to Thee, our Lady Theotokos, we do nothing worthily, even as Thou hast given to us, crying out for Thee: Alleluia.
Ikos 11
As a light-receiving candle, which appears to those in the darkness of troubles, we see the holy icon of the Mother of God: for we receive the immaterial fire of grace, illuminating everyone with the rays of miracles, teaching us to cry out to the Blessed One: Rejoice, speedy help in all needs; Rejoice, quick hearing in sorrows. Rejoice, thou who deliverest us from fire, sword and the invasion of foreigners; Rejoice, freeing us from hunger and vain death. Rejoice, you who protect us from the plague and destruction of mortals; Rejoice, sudden help to those in need along the way, on land and on the waters. Rejoice, healing of mental and physical ulcers; Rejoice, you who accept those left by doctors into Your hands. Rejoice, merciful Comforter of all those who mourn and are burdened;
Rejoice, you who do not reject all the despised and rejected. Rejoice, you who snatch away the most desperate from the pit of destruction; Rejoice, and me, naked of good deeds, not leaving me with Your protection and intercession. Rejoice, good Goalkeeper, who opens the doors of heaven to the faithful.
Kontakion 12
The grace of giving away the debts of the ancients, of all debts, the Resolver of man, came with Himself to those who had departed from His grace and, tearing apart the handwriting, granted us a strong God-gracious intercession, so that we all cry out with Her prayers: Alleluia.
Ikos 12
Singing Your miracles shown to us in this life, we praise You. Mother of God, as an inexhaustible source of mercy. But, falling to Thee before Thy miraculous icon, we humbly pray to Thee to provide us with protection and protection on the day of our death, and when the imams appear before the terrible Throne of Thy Son for judgment, and cry out to Thee: Rejoice, thou who sittest in glory before the Throne of Thy Son and there remembering us; Rejoice, forever reigning with Your Son and God and interceding for us. Rejoice, you who give the end of life without shame to those who trust in You; Rejoice, you who arrange a painless and peaceful death. Rejoice, deliverance from bitter ordeals; Rejoice, liberation from the power of the prince of the air. Rejoice, there is no remembrance of our sins; Rejoice, for in the Lord we have the hope of a blessed life. Rejoice, you who make a standing place for those who trust in You at the right hand of Your Son;
Rejoice, thou who art worthy to hear the blessed voice of Onago, who promises the inheritance of the Heavenly Kingdom. Rejoice, good Mother, who makes all those who honor You live with You; Rejoice, strong hope of eternal salvation for all Christians. Rejoice, good Goalkeeper, who opens the doors of heaven to the faithful.
Kontakion 13
O All-Singing Mother, Most Holy Lady Virgin Mary! Look upon us, who humbly offer these small prayers with tears before Your most pure image and have placed all our hope and hope in You, and deliver us from all troubles and misfortunes in this life and from future torment, so that, saved by You, we cry out: Alleluia.
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Iveron Icon, days of remembrance:
February 25 (February 12, old style) - on this day the copy of the Iveron Icon was transferred to the monastery in Valdai. This list was written by an Athos icon painter specifically for the Iveron Monastery, built in Valdai in the exact likeness of the Athos Monastery.
May 6 (April 25, old style) - the second discovery of the icon list. In 2012, the icon was solemnly transferred to the Russian Orthodox Church and installed in its place in the Novodevichy Convent, where it had been located since 1648. In the years Soviet power, after the closure of the monastery, the shrine was in the collections of the State Historical Museum.
October 26 (October 13, old style) is the day of the solemn meeting when the Athos Iveron Icon appeared in Moscow in 1648
On Tuesday of Holy Week- according to legend, it was on Tuesday of Bright Week that the monks of the Iveron Monastery saw an icon of the Mother of God floating towards them on the water.
WHAT DO THE MOTHER OF GOD PRAY FOR THROUGH HER IMAGE OF THE IVERIAN ICON
The second name of this icon of the Mother of God is the Goalkeeper (Portaitissa). She, like a real guardian, stands to protect you and your home and protects you from evil actions and destructive thoughts.
The Mother of God through the Iveron image of the present Mothers is the Intercessor of our home from various disasters - from robbery, floods, fires, etc.
The Iveron icon helps in healing mental and physical illnesses; it shows sinners the path to repentance.
It must be remembered that icons or saints do not “specialize” in any specific areas. 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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THE HISTORY OF THE DISCOVERY OF THE IVERIAN ICON
After the first Ecumenical Council, at which, thanks also to the adherents of the Arian heresy, they received a worthy rebuff in Christendom It's finally a time of peace. But in the 9th century a new misfortune came - fighters against Orthodox images appeared, they simply destroyed the icons.
In those years, in the region of Nicaea (now Turkey) there lived a family of Orthodox Christians, a widow and her teenage son. The woman was not poor and next to her house she erected a temple in which there was an ancient icon of the Mother of God. One day, iconoclast troublemakers came to this church and began to demand money from the woman. She told them that now she did not have that amount; upon hearing this answer, one of the attackers struck the icon on the face of the Mother of God with a sword. Suddenly blood flowed down the icon, as if from a living body.
« Heroes“They were frightened by what they saw and left the temple, but when leaving it, they warned that they would return for the money the next day.
At night, the widow and her son took the damaged icon, went to the seashore and, after reading a prayer, laid it on the water. Suddenly the icon stood in vertical position and swam from the shore into the open sea. Mother and son, amazed at what was happening, looked at this miracle. After everything that happened, they were forced to leave their home. The son went to Thessaloniki, then to Mount Athos to the Iveron Monastery, where he took monastic vows and became a monk.
He told the story of such an unusual rescue of the image of the Mother of God, whose icon miraculously went into the sea.
Once, being near the monastery gates, not far from the water, the elders saw a pillar of fire rising above the sea. This sight frightened them. They began to pray to the Lord, but the vision did not disappear, and by night it became even brighter.
Finally, the monks saw an icon of the Mother of God floating in the sea. They tried to get it, but when they began to approach it, the icon moved away from them.
After several unsuccessful attempts, the monks got together and began to pray to the Lord for help in finding the icon. God heard their prayers, and chose the monk Gabriel, who is now known as Gabriel the Holy Mountain, as the person who would deliver the shrine to the Iveron monastery. This monk was a real hermit, spending all his time in prayers to the Lord. That day he was not in the monastery, since in the summer he went to pray in the mountains and only with the onset of cold weather did he return to the monastery.
One day, during sleep, Gabriel had a vision of the Mother of God Herself. The Mother of God commanded him to leave his hermitage, return to the monastery, go to the abbot and inform him that the Queen of Heaven wants to give Gabriel Her icon, which came to them by sea. But for this, he must, like Jesus Christ, without fear, with faith, walk on the surface of the water, take the icon, and then take it to the monastery, which She will now protect.
He fulfilled everything exactly according to the command of the Mother of God. Having stepped onto the water, Gabriel walked along the surface, and then the icon itself began to approach the monk, he took it in his arms and carried it to the shore. After the icon was found, the image of the Mother of God was placed on the holy altar, and a service was continuously held in front of it for three days. But suddenly the icon was gone, it disappeared, they rushed to look for it, and found it above the monastery gates. The monks again placed the icon on the altar, and again, inexplicably, it ended up above the gate. Several times the icon " traveled"from place to place.
The Most Pure One again appeared in a dream to the hermit Gabriel and ordered him to go to the monastery again and inform everyone that this icon was not sent for the monks to guard it, but on the contrary - now the Mother of God herself, through her icon, will guard Iveron and Her entire second destiny is Athos.
Since then, this icon has received the name Portaitissa, which is translated from Greek language means - Goalkeeper.
The Iverskaya monastery is considered the house where this icon. On the territory of the monastery a temple was erected in the name of Portaitissa, the patroness of Athos. 
The icon is illuminated by an unquenchable lamp, which is called “ Goalkeeper's Lamp».
Sometimes during church services, without any external influence, the lamp swings like a pendulum, thus warning of the proximity of such great disasters as earthquakes, epidemics, and attacks from enemies.
Residents of Athos said that before the Turks attacked Cyprus, the lamp swayed so much that even the oil spilled over the edge, but the Protectress, through Her icon, did not allow Athos to be captured.
IN modern times, such incomprehensible swinging of the lamp began before the Americans arrived in Iraq, before the earthquake in Spitak, and before other phenomena. This is how the Iveron Icon happened to inform people about upcoming events on a planetary scale.
The Guardian and Defender of Iveron, the Iveron Icon of the Mother of God always showed her help to the brethren, when famine occurred, She sent the abbot of the monastery to the barn, where he found large number flour. The enemies did not attack Athos, the fires that broke out went out on their own, and there were always food supplies in the bins.
Unrepentant sinners cannot pass through the gates of Iveron.
In 422, according to legend, the daughter of Tsar Theodosius wanted to visit the monastery to see the shrines, but by the voice of the Mother of God she was forbidden to do so.
Since then, by order of the Mother of God, who protects the peace and tranquility of monastics, Athos has been inaccessible to women for 1,700 years.
In Russia there are two main lists of this icon. One of them is located in the church of the Patriarchal Metochion in Peredelkino. They say that these lists were made with paint, which was rubbed with holy water, taken from an authentic icon from New Athos.
GREATNESS
We magnify You, Most Holy Virgin, and honor Your holy image, through which you heal our illnesses and raise our souls to God.
VIDEO - ICON OF THE MOTHER OF GOD OF IVERSKAYA
Many of us have heard about icons that have miraculous powers. Among them is the miraculous one (Iverskaya). She primarily helps those who have repented of their sins and taken the path of repentance. In front of the icon they pray for their loved ones, for the healing of both mental and physical illnesses. This image is recommended to have in every home. Prayer before him will help protect your home from various disasters, including attacks from enemies.
Where can you see the icon
The Iveron Mother of God icon is located in the Iveron Monastery in Greece on Mount Athos. Many temples have been built all over the world in honor of this icon. Russia is no exception, where similar churches are located in Belyaev, on Vspolye, in Babushkino. They contain lists made in Greece or Russia; it does not matter, since any copy of this icon becomes miraculous. As an example, consider the temple on Vspolye. Archpriest Gregory brought the image of the Iveron Mother of God to the church from his own home during its opening. Through certain time certain healings began to occur from the icon.
There are many lists in the world, 16 of which have become the most famous. Thus, there is an icon of the “Iveron Mother of God”, which was painted by the priest Iamblichus Romanov in 1648. This image is an accurate copy of the Athonite icon, commissioned at the request of Nikon, who later became the Patriarch of Moscow. The board on which the icon was written was first doused with sacred water, serving a prayer service to the Mother of God. This water was then collected, as it was used to mix the paints with which the icon was subsequently painted.
In addition, on Athos it was written famous list, which is now kept in the Valdai Svyatoozersky Iversky Monastery. In Moscow, in the Iverskaya Chapel, a copy of the image is also kept. There is a similar list in the Smolensk Monastery, Tambov, Saratov and many other places.
How it appeared in Athos
Not far from Nikia lived a pious widow who secretly kept the image of the Mother of God in her house. When this was revealed, soldiers came to the house and wanted to take the icon away. One of them even hit the shrine with a spear, after which blood flowed from the image of the Most Pure One. After praying, the woman, in order to protect the icon, took it and lowered it into the sea. The image floated on the waves while standing. One fine day, the inhabitants of the Iversky Monastery above the sea saw a holy pillar that rose above the image standing on the water. After the vision, Gabriel walked on the water and took the icon. It was placed in the chapel, but the next morning the image was discovered above the monastery gates. Attempts to take her to her previous place ended in failure. Then the Mother of God again appeared to Gabriel and told him that she did not want to be protected, but that she wanted to protect and protect everyone herself. As a result, a gate church was built, in which the icon was placed. The “Iveron Mother of God” got its name from its location. In the history of the monastery there are many manuscripts about the gracious help of the Mother of God. Thus, during the period of famine, supplies of wheat, oil and wine were miraculously replenished. Many times the image protected the monastery from attacks. An example is the death of the Persians during the siege of the monastery, when a storm suddenly arose and sank all the ships.
Icon of the Iveron Mother of God: description
She has enough large sizes. Its height is 137 centimeters and its width is 87. The icon has two frames, which change periodically. The chased frame is more ancient. It was made by Georgian craftsmen in the 16th century; below there is a note in the language of the manufacturer. WITH reverse side The icon depicts a cross with a monogram and the abbreviated phrase “Christ gives grace to Christians.” The second salary is later. Distinctive feature are images of the apostles on the margins of the image in full height, while on the prototype they are waist-length. Like most miraculous icons, it is decorated with numerous donations.
