Our Lady of Igor

Kiev, Ukraine (1147)

 

When Prince Igor Olegovich ascended the Kievan throne in 1146, an uprising quickly unseated him. The defeated prince became a monk of St. Theodore’s in Kiev. In his cell he prayed before an icon of the Mother of God, a small Virgin of Tenderness with the Child against her cheek as in the contemporaneous icon of Vladimir. After enemies seized, tortured, and martyred him in his cell on September 19, 1147, his icon began to be known for miracles; June 18 (June 3 in the Julian calendar), the date Prince Igor’s remains were interred with honor in 1150, became Our Lady of Igor’s feast day. Until recently, the original painting was in the Dormition Cathedral at the Kiev Cave Monastery, but it is now known only in copies.

 

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Source: "365 Days with Mary" by Michael O'Neill

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