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==History==
The tradition attributes St. [[Apostle Luke|Luke]] with painting the first icons of the Theotokos. We know of three types he painted: "Umilenie" (Our Lady of Tenderness), "Hodigitria" (She who leads the way), and a third type, of her without a child or praying to the Christ child. (The facts of the third type are confused).
<gallery>
Image:Blachernitissa_MtSinai.jpg|Close up of Blachernitissa
Image:MtSinai_Ic_5images.jpg|Ancient icon with five images of the Theotokos and 36 images of Christ's miracles and passions
Image:MtSinai_Ic_5imagesCU.jpg|Close up of five images of the Theotokos
Image:Hagiosoritissa_MtSinai_5.jpg|Close up of Hagiosoritissa
</gallery>
==Icons==
Image:It is truly meet.JPG|[[Panagia Axion Esti|Axion Estin - It is Truly Meet]]
Image:Panag Chrysafitissa.jpg|[[Panagia Chrysafitissa|Panagia Chrysafitissa]]
Image:panagia_tou_xarou.jpg|[[Panagia tou Harou]] (Leipsi island, Greece)
Image:Panagia_Kamariani.jpg|[[Panagia Kamariani|Panagia Kamariani - original (Australia)]]
Image:Koukouzelissa.jpg|[[Panagia Koukouzelissa]]
Image:Theotokos of Czestochowa.jpg|Our Lady of Czestochowa ''(Hodigitria)''
Image:Theotekos Oranta.JPG|The Great Panagia''(Oranta)''
Image:PantanassaMystra.JPG|[[Panagia Pantanassa]] of Mystra, GreeceImage:Panagia_Paramythea.jpg|[[Panagia Paramythea ]] of Vatopaidi Monastery, Mt Athos
Image:Mother of God of the Passion.JPG|[[Theotokos of the Passion]] ''(Hodigitria)''
Image:Phaneromeni.jpg|[[Panagia Phaneromene]], Chiliomodi (Corinth, Greece)
Image:Portaitissa.jpg|[[Panagia Portaitissa]] ''(Hodigitria)''
Image:Tricherousa.jpg|'''[[Panagia Tricherousa]]''', Our Lady with the Three Hands
Image:Panagia_Spiliani.jpg|[[Panagia Spiliani|The Virgin of the Cave]]
Image:Life_Giving_Spring.jpg|[[Panagia the Life Giving Spring|Panagia the Life Giving Spring]]
==Source==
*''Theology of the Icon'' by [[Leonid Alexandrovich Ouspensky |Leonid Ouspensky]] ISBN 0-88141-124-8
==External link==
*[http://oca.org/FStheotokos.asp?SID=4 Icons of the Mother of God] - [[OCA]] website lists icons by feast date of the icon.
[[Category:About Icons]]
[[Category:Icons of the Theotokos|*]]
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