Akathist to the Nicene Icon of the Mother of God. Canon of the Nicene Icon of the Mother of God. Icon of the Mother of God “Nicaea”

(28 May / 10 June)

Before the icon Holy Mother of God“Nicene” prays for the admonition of those who have gone astray and apostatized from the faith.

Prayer to the Most Holy Theotokos before Her Nicene Icon

O Most Holy Lady Lady Theotokos! Thou art the highest of all Angels and Archangels and all honest creatures, the helper of the offended, the hopeless hope, the poor intercessor, the sad consolation, the hungry nurse, the naked robe, the healing of the sick, the salvation of sinners, the help and intercession of all Christians. O All-Merciful Lady, Virgin Mary and Lady! By Your mercy, save and have mercy on our country, Your Eminence metropolitans, archbishops and bishops, and the entire priestly and monastic rank, military leaders, city governors and Christ-loving army, and well-wishers, and all Orthodox Christians, protect Your honorable robe, and pray, Lady, from You without seed may the incarnate Christ our God gird us with His power from above against our invisible and visible enemies. O All-Merciful Lady Lady Theotokos! Raise us from the depths of sin, and deliver us from famine, destruction, from cowardice and flood, from fire and sword, from the presence of foreigners and internecine warfare, and from sudden death, and from attacks of the enemy, and from corrupting winds, and from deadly plagues , and from all evil. Grant, O Lady, peace and health to Your servants, to all Orthodox Christian, and enlighten their minds and the eyes of their hearts to salvation, and make us, Thy sinful servants, worthy of the Kingdom of Thy Son, Christ our God, for His Power is blessed and glorified, with His Beginning Father and with His Most Holy and Good and Life-giving Spirit, now and ever and ever. Amen.

Troparion, tone 4
Thy belly became a holy meal, possessing the Heavenly Bread, Christ, from the Unworthiness of everyone who eats poison does not die, as everyone says, Mother of God, Nourisher.

Kontakion, tone 6
The intercession of Christians is shameless, the intercession to the Creator is immutable, do not despise the voices of sinful prayers, but advance, as the Good One, to the aid of us who faithfully call upon Thee: hasten to prayer and strive to supplicate, ever interceding, the Mother of God, who honor Thee.

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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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June 10 – Celebration of the Nicene (304) and Chukhloma (Galich) (1350) icons Mother of God

The Nicene ("Thy belly was the Holy Meal") icon of the Mother of God became famous in 304 in the Byzantine city of Nicaea. One of the soldiers named Konstantin, seeing the icon of the Mother of God, threw a stone at it, then broke the icon and began to trample it underfoot.

At night, the Mother of God appeared to the blasphemer in a dream and said: “You have committed a great reproach on Me; know that you did this to your own destruction.” The punishment followed immediately. The next day, during the battle, when the enemy rushed to attack, Konstantin, who ran up the wall with others, had his head and face broken with a stone and he fell lifeless. Thus, according to the prediction of the Mother of God, the offender of the shrine received a worthy retribution for his wickedness.

Nicene (“Thy belly was the Holy Table”) icon of the Mother of God

Tradition says that the fathers of the First Ecumenical Council Having heard about this story, they decided to sing a song in front of the Nicene icon, beginning with the words: “Thy belly was the Holy Table.” Icon painters often place these words on the icon itself, and Reverend Andrew Kritsky included them in the canon for the feast of Mid-Pentecost: “Thy belly became the Holy Table, having the bread of Heaven...”

The iconographic type of this icon of the Mother of God is “Oranta” (Latin: “Praying”): the Mother of God is depicted with raised hands. In Russian icon painting this type was called “Znamenie”. Often in the center, between the raised hands of the Mother of God, the Infant Christ is depicted. This is exactly how it is on the Nicene icon: the Mother of God is depicted as if performing a sacred act in front of a cup in which the Infant God stands.

Nicene (“Thy belly was the Holy Table”) icon of the Mother of God

In Rus', this iconographic image is better known as the “Inexhaustible Chalice” icon, in front of which since the 19th century. began to pray for the sin of drunkenness, and from the end of the 20th century. – also from the diseases of drug addiction and smoking. In Moscow, a rare iconographic image of “Thy belly was the Holy Meal” from the Church of the Nativity of John the Baptist on Presnya is revered.

Troparion to the Nicene Icon of the Mother of God

Thy belly became a holy meal, / having the Heavenly Bread, Christ, / from the Unworthiness of everyone who eats poison does not die, / as everyone said, / to the Mother of God, the Nourisher.

Kontakion of the Mother of God before Her Icon of Nicea, tone 6

The intercession of Christians is not shameful, / the intercession to the Creator is immutable, / do not despise the voices of sinful prayers, / but advance, as the Good One, to the aid of us, / who faithfully call upon Thee: / hasten to prayer and strive to supplicate, / ever interceding, the Mother of God, who honor Thee.

Chukhloma (Galich) Icon of the Mother of God

Chukhloma (Galich) icon of the Mother of God.

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The Icon of the Mother of God of Galich-Chukhloma "Tenderness" appeared in 1350 to the Venerable Abraham of Galich, Chukhloma Wonderworker (+ 1375; commemorated July 20/August 2), who was tonsured a monk and ordained to the priesthood Venerable Sergius Radonezh (+ 1392; commemorated July 5/18 and September 25/October 8) and lived in his monastery for a long time.

In the Kostroma region, on the deserted shore of Lake Galich near a large mountain covered with dense forest, he turned to the Mother of God in prayer, asking for a blessing for his feat. After prayer, the Reverend sat down to rest and suddenly saw a bright light on a nearby mountain and heard a voice: “Abraham, go up to the mountain where the icon of My Mother stands.”

The monk climbed the mountain where the light was shining, and actually discovered an icon of the Mother of God with the Eternal Child on a tree. With tenderness and gratitude to the Lord, the holy ascetic accepted the revealed image and, strengthened by the prayers of the Most Holy Theotokos, built a chapel in the blessed place, into which he transferred the icon.

After some time, the Galich prince Dimitri Feodorovich, having learned about the coming of the elder, turned to him with a request to bring the icon. The Monk Abraham sailed across Lake Galich on a boat and, accompanied by the clergy and a multitude of people, transferred the miraculous image to the cathedral church of the city of Galich. On this day, numerous sick people were healed from the icon. When the Monk Abraham spoke about the appearance of the icon, the prince donated money for the construction of the monastery. Soon a church was built in honor of the Dormition of the Blessed Virgin Mary, around which a monastery arose, called Galichsky-Gorodetsky-Pokrovsky, which is why the Galich Icon is also called Gorodetsky.

Subsequently, the Monk Abraham founded several more monasteries, the last of which was Chukhloma, not far from the city of Chukhloma. Based on the name of this monastery, the ascetic began to be called Chukhlomsky, and miraculous icon the name Galichskaya-Chukhlomaskaya was adopted.

The icon became a shrine not only of the Galich monastery. In the 18th century, when the monastery was abolished and became a parish church, the Galich icon was already one of the main shrines of the Galich district and the entire Kostroma region. Religious processions took place with her several times a year, including to neighboring counties. In the second half of the 18th century, the Galich icon was decorated with a gilded silver chasuble.

In the 1920s, despite the anti-religious campaign, religious processions continued to be held with her. In 1932, the Assumption Church in the village of Umilenie was closed and, according to the testimony of old-timers, its last priest, Alexy Strigalev, when leaving the village, took the Galich icon with him. The further fate of the icon remains unknown.

Chukhloma (Galich) Icon of the Mother of God

At the end of the 19th century, a list was made from the Galich icon “by measure and likeness” to the prototype. It is located in Vvedensky cathedral Galich. In 2000, on the day of the celebration of the 650th anniversary of the appearance of the icon, this list was carried out procession to Lake Galicia to the place where the icon appeared.

Prayer to the Blessed Virgin Mary

Oh, Most Holy Lady Lady Theotokos, you are the highest Angel and Archangel of all, and the most honorable of all creatures, you are the helper of the offended, the hopeless hope, the poor intercessor, the sad consolation, the hungry nurse, the naked robe, the healing of the sick, the salvation of sinners, the help and intercession of all Christians. Oh, All-Merciful Lady, Virgin Mother of God and Lady, by Your mercy save and have mercy on the most holy Orthodox patriarchs, the most Reverend metropolitans, archbishops and bishops and the entire priestly and monastic rank, and all Orthodox Christians through the robe of Your honest protection; and pray, Lady, from You, without seed, Christ our God, incarnate, may gird us with His power from above, against our invisible and visible enemies. Oh, All-Merciful Lady Lady Theotokos! Raise us from the depths of sin and deliver us from famine, destruction, from cowardice and flood, from fire and sword, from the presence of foreigners and internecine warfare, and from vain death, and from the attacks of the enemy, and from corrupting winds, and from deadly plagues, and from all evil. Grant, O Lady, peace and health to Thy servant, all Orthodox Christians, and enlighten their minds and the eyes of their hearts, leading to salvation; and have made us worthy, Thy sinful servants, of the Kingdom of Thy Son, Christ our God; for His power is blessed and glorified, with His Originless Father, and with His Most Holy, and Good, and Life-Giving Spirit, now and ever, and unto ages of ages. Amen.

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Icon of the Mother of God of Nicea

The Icon of the Mother of God of Nicea is one of the ancient images Mother of God. On the icon, the Virgin Mary is depicted with her hands raised in prayer, and on Her chest a temple with the holy throne is depicted. On the throne there is a Chalice with the Holy Gifts, and in the chalice there is a picture of the Child. By appearance The Nicene icon is close to the newer glorified image - the “Inexhaustible Chalice”.

According to legend, the icon became famous in Nicaea (now the Turkish city of Iznik) in 304. During the siege of the city by the military leader Amir, a certain warrior named Constantine began to mock the icon: he threw a stone at the face of the Mother of God, and then broke the icon and began to trample on it. At night, the Mother of God appeared to him in a dream and said: “You have committed a great reproach on Me. Know that you did this to your own destruction.” On the morning of the battle, he died, hit in the head by a stone. This was told to the holy fathers of the First Ecumenical Council (325), who decided to sing the following prayer before this image: “Your womb, O Mother of God, has become a holy table, bearing the heavenly Bread, Christ our God, and none of those who eat from Him dies , as He said, the Nourisher of all.” Subsequently, part of this hymn began to be written on the icon itself, and St. Andrew of Crete included it in the canon of Mid-Pentecost.

Interesting facts about the Icon of the Mother of God of Nicaea

Sometimes the Nicene Icon is named after the first words of the prayer: “Thy belly be a holy meal.”

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Icon of the Mother of God of Nicaea “THY WILL BE A HOLY MEAL”

Icon of the Mother of God “Nicene” (“Thy Womb Became the Holy Meal”)

Before the icon of the Most Holy Theotokos “Nicene” they pray for the admonition of those who have gone astray and those who have apostatized from the faith.

Prayer to the Most Holy Theotokos before Her Nicene Icon

O Most Holy Lady Lady Theotokos! Thou art the highest of all Angels and Archangels and all honest creatures, the helper of the offended, the hopeless hope, the poor intercessor, the sad consolation, the hungry nurse, the naked robe, the healing of the sick, the salvation of sinners, the help and intercession of all Christians. O All-Merciful Lady, Virgin Mary and Lady! By Your mercy, save and have mercy on our country, Your Eminence metropolitans, archbishops and bishops, and the entire priestly and monastic rank, military leaders, city governors and Christ-loving army, and well-wishers, and all Orthodox Christians, protect Your honorable robe, and pray, Lady, from You without seed may the incarnate Christ our God gird us with His power from above against our invisible and visible enemies. O All-Merciful Lady Lady Theotokos! Raise us from the depths of sin, and deliver us from famine, destruction, from cowardice and flood, from fire and sword, from the presence of foreigners and internecine warfare, and from sudden death, and from attacks of the enemy, and from corrupting winds, and from deadly plagues , and from all evil. Grant, O Lady, peace and health to Thy servant, all Orthodox Christians, and enlighten their minds and the eyes of their hearts to salvation, and make us, Thy sinful servants, worthy of the Kingdom of Thy Son, Christ our God, for His Power is blessed and glorified, with the Beginning His Father and with His Most Holy and Good and Life-giving Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages. Amen.

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Icon of the Mother of God "Nicene"

Icon of the Mother of God “Nicene” (“Thy Womb Became the Holy Meal”)

Thy belly became a holy meal, having the Heavenly Bread, Christ, from the Unfitness of everyone who eats poison does not die, as everyone says, Mother of God, Nourisher.

The intercession of Christians is shameless, the intercession to the Creator is immutable, do not despise the voices of sinful prayers, but advance, as the Good One, to the aid of us who faithfully call upon Thee: hasten to prayer and strive to supplicate, ever interceding, the Mother of God, who honor Thee.

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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What do people pray for to the Nicene Icon?: they pray for the admonition of those who have gone astray and apostatized from the faith.

Icon of the Mother of God “Nicaea”

Prayer to the Icon of the Mother of God “Nicaea”

O Most Holy Lady Lady Theotokos! Thou art the highest of all Angels and Archangels and of all the most honest creatures: Thou art the Helper of the offended, the hopeless hope, the poor intercessor, the sad consolation, the hungry nurse, the naked robe, the healing of the sick, the salvation of sinners, the help and intercession of all Christians. O All-Merciful Lady, Virgin Mary and Lady! By Your mercy, save and have mercy on our Orthodox country, Your Right Reverend metropolitans, archbishops and bishops, and the entire priestly and monastic rank, military leaders, city governors and Christ-loving army, and well-wishers, and all Orthodox Christians, protect Your honorable robe: and pray, Lady, from You without To the seed of the incarnate Christ our God, may He gird us with His power from above against our invisible and visible enemies. O All-Merciful Lady Lady Theotokos! Raise us from the depths of sin, and deliver us from famine, destruction, from cowardice and flood, from fire and sword, from the presence of foreigners and internecine warfare, and from sudden death, and from attacks of the enemy, and from corrupting winds, and from deadly plagues , and from all evil. Grant, O Lady, peace and health to Thy servant, all Orthodox Christians, and enlighten their minds and the eyes of their hearts to salvation: and make us, Thy sinful servants, worthy of the Kingdom of Thy Son, Christ our God, for His power is blessed and glorified, with His beginningless Father, and his Most Holy and Good and Life-giving Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages. Amen.

Prayer of the Mother of God in front of Her icon, (icon of the Mother of God “NICENE” (THY WILL BE A HOLY MEAL))

Icon of the Mother of God “THY WILL BE THE HOLY MEAL” OF NICAE

She became famous in 304 in the Byzantine city of Nicaea. One of the soldiers named Konstantin, seeing the icon of the Mother of God, threw a stone at it, then broke the icon and began to trample it underfoot. The next day, during hostilities, the wicked man died, struck in the head by a stone.

Tradition says that the fathers of the First Ecumenical Council, having heard about this story, decided to sing in front of the Nicene Icon a song beginning with the words: “Thy belly was the Holy Table.” Icon painters often place these words on the very icon of the Mother of God, and St. Andrew of Crete included them in the canon for the feast of Mid-Pentecost: “Thy belly became the Holy Table, having the bread of Heaven...”

What do people pray for to the Nicene Icon?: they pray for the admonition of those who have gone astray and apostatized from the faith.

Icon of the Mother of God "Nicaea"

Prayer to the Icon of the Mother of God "Nicaea"

See ancient icon Our Lady "Be the womb your holy meal" is a rare success for a collector and researcher. Not every museum can boast that its collection contains this rare subject. It is reliably known that a similar image, created by an unknown author of the 18th century, is kept in the Church-Archaeological Cabinet of the Moscow Theological Academy.

I was lucky enough to come across such an icon in the private collection of one of the residents of our city. This is an icon of the first half of the 19th century. painted on a wooden board with tempera paints using ancient technology.

The iconography (basic types and rules for depicting a specific person, event or plot) of the “Thy belly was a holy meal” icon is quite complex. This iconographic type developed gradually, enriched with more and more new symbolic details.

At the heart of this complex and multi-valued image is the Mother of God " Great Panagia"or "Oranta", presented full-length, frontally, with hands raised in prayer. On her chest is a gold medallion with a half-figure of Christ - the Savior Emmanuel, who also extended his arms in a blessing gesture. The Mother of God “of the Sign,” especially revered in Rus', with her hands raised in prayer and the Infant God “revealed in her bosom,” has a great resemblance to this icon. This symbolic image of the infant Christ makes the “Sign” similar to the Annunciation.

The icon called “Thy belly was a holy meal” differs from the “Sign” in that the Infant God (Savior Emmanuel) is placed in a cup standing on the throne - a symbol of the Eucharist (holy communion). The throne is located in the temple, we guess about this by the presence of architectural details: domes and columns.

Let's try to translate the icon symbols into modern Russian. This will help us understand the deeper meaning of the image. On top of the plate (maforia) the head of the Mother of God is covered with a crown. This means that before us is the “Queen of Heaven.” The hands of the Virgin Mary are raised in prayer: she prays to her divine son for the human race. This gesture is a sign of the eternal prayer of the Blessed Virgin, bringing to the world hope and protection.

Savior Emmanuel miraculously appeared in the bosom of the Mother of God. This is the moment of the Annunciation when Holy Virgin learns from the Archangel Gabriel the good news that the God-Man is in her womb. The Eucharistic cup on the throne (altar) symbolizes Holy Communion- the blood and flesh of Jesus Christ, his holy sacrifice in the name of liberating man from abomination original sin. And finally, a symbolic image of the temple - the “earthly church” - the unity of all Orthodox believers.

The first such icon was the famous Byzantine “Our Lady of Nicaea” (named after the Asian city of Nicaea, where she became famous).

It received a new name in 325 by the decision of the First Ecumenical Council, when the church fathers decided to sing before this icon: “Your belly will be a holy meal.”

The Russian icon, called “Thy belly was a holy meal,” differs from its Byzantine prototype in the presence of architectural details and the image of the Holy Spirit in the form of a dove flying from heaven. On the icon from the Church-Archaeological Office of the Moscow Theological Academy it is placed in the upper left corner, on ours it is on the rim of the Mother of God’s halo.

The miraculously preserved icon from the private collection of a Khabarovsk resident amazes with its bright colors: a combination of cherry and crimson. golden and green colors. This color scheme makes it similar to the traditions of Pomeranian Old Believers icon painters. It is enough to compare the Old Believer icon of the 19th century stored in the State Historical Museum. “Saved the Good Silence” with the one described in order to discover the correspondence of the color relationships, the manner of writing the face, the shape close to a square, the color of the edge (the color outline along the edge of the board and the middle).

In the 19th century, when New Believer churches were filled with “life-like”, carnal images close to secular art, Old Believers icon painters preserved ancient piety in the icon, following the ancient traditions of tempera icon painting.

Old Believer masters attached great importance to the use of gold in icons. After all, gold is a symbol of Favorian, divine light. Icon painters gild the background with gold leaf and richly decorate the decoration of the clothes with dissolved gold (dissolved in alum), making it with light, brittle lines.

All this closely connects our icon with the work of the monks of the Vygovskaya Hermitage - spiritual center Old Believers in the XVIII - 19th centuries. Vygovskaya Hermitage is a settlement of Old Believers-Pomeranians, located on the Vyg River, northeast of Lake Onega, in dense impenetrable forests surrounded by swamps.

Vygovskoye hostel, which included men's and convents, as well as the peasant villages around, was founded by Old Believers monks from northern monasteries.

In 1702, Emperor Peter I was informed about the existence of a schismatic monastery, but the tsar commanded: “Let them live,” and ordered the Old Believers-hermits to be assigned to the Povenets iron factories.

Here, far from worldly temptations and from the influence of “enlightened” Europe, the traditions of Russian spirituality continued to develop, and the continuity of art was preserved from pre-Nikon times.

The Vygov monks considered themselves followers of the monks of the Solovetsky Monastery, known for their open opposition to Nikon’s reform. For eight years, from 1668 to 1676, the Solovetsky Monastery withstood the siege of the tsarist troops.

It was the monks from Solovki who organized the main workshops in the desert: copper foundry, icon-making, book-making, bookbinding, etc.

The desert was famous for its collecting; Old Believers from all over the country brought ancient images, books and vestments here. The monastic mentors collected a rich library in which the entire written heritage was presented Ancient Rus', including unique monuments of hagiographic literature.

No less significant was the icon collection, which made it possible, based on the traditions of various icon painting schools of Ancient Rus', to develop their own Pomeranian style, which we see in the decor of handwritten books, and in icons, and in the painting of dishes, and in copper-cast works. But they will be discussed in the next article, dedicated to the work of the Old Believers.

Galina EGOSHINA, art critic,
chief specialist of the Rosokhrankultura Department for the Far Eastern Federal District

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