A lovely icon... what is its name?

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It’s found on this Youtube video(it’s the background during the entire chant). Where most icons of the Theotokos done like this have the child Jesus in her arms, this one has her holding nothing with an empty space where Our Lord should be. It’s so strikingly beautiful and heartbreaking… anybody know what it is called or where to find out???

youtube.com/watch?v=STL3eDvXAtA
 
It is called Our Lady of Sorrows or Sorrowful Mother. It isn’t an original icon but mostly a more zoomed in focus on the theotokos in the traditional epitaphios and crucifixion icons.
 
chaldobyzantine said:
It is called Our Lady of Sorrows or Sorrowful Mother. It isn’t an original icon but mostly a more zoomed in focus on the theotokos in the traditional epitaphios and crucifixion icons.
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Yes, the music Stabat Mater, Mother of sorrows a Latin hymn hymn about sorrows of Virgin Mary: a hymn that was composed in the 13th century and concerns the grief of the Virgin Mary at the crucifixion of Jesus Christ.

[Mid-19th century. < Latin stabat mater dolorosa “the mother stood, full of grief,” first words of the hymn]
Peace, Carlan
 
Actually this is one half of a diptych (two-part icon) which is, itself, an artistic variation on the iconographic representation of the irmos of the ninth ode of the mattins canon for Great and Holy Saturday:
“Weep not for me, Mother, beholding in the tomb the Son thou didst conceive without seed in thy womb. For I shall rise and I shall be glorified and as God I shall exalt in everlasting glory those who magnify thee with faith and love.”

As such, the icon of the Theotokos ‘without the corresponding icon of Christ’ is somewhat ‘out of context’.
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chaldobyzantine said:
It is called Our Lady of Sorrows or Sorrowful Mother. It isn’t an original icon but mostly a more zoomed in focus on the theotokos in the traditional epitaphios and crucifixion icons.
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Actually, this is the icon of Our Lady of Sorrows



This particular one has 7 arrows but you will also see 7 swords which represent the 7 Sorrows endured by Our Blessed Mother.

Hope this helps…
 
rowlands said:
Actually this is one half of a diptych (two-part icon) which is, itself, an artistic variation on the iconographic representation of the irmos of the ninth ode of the mattins canon for Great and Holy Saturday:
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“Weep not for me, Mother, beholding in the tomb the Son thou didst conceive without seed in thy womb. For I shall rise and I shall be glorified and as God I shall exalt in everlasting glory those who magnify thee with faith and love.”*
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Actually, this particular icon is part of a triptych done by iconographer Fr. William Hart McNicholos.

http://puffin.creighton.edu/jesuit/andre/images/triptich.jpg
 
Wow thanks for all the help!!

Just curious Patchunky, who is on the right side of the triptych? My cyrillic is rusty :o John?
 
ljubim said:
Wow thanks for all the help!!

Just curious Patchunky, who is on the right side of the triptych? My cyrillic is rusty :o John?
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Seems like it would be John. He is the one usually without a beard.
 
rowlands said:
… for Great and Holy Saturday:
“Weep not for me, Mother, beholding in the tomb the Son thou didst conceive without seed in thy womb. For I shall rise and I shall be glorified and as God I shall exalt in everlasting glory those who magnify thee with faith and love.”
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Breathtakingly beautiful.

~Liza
 
Most Holy Mother teach us to love your son as you do. May our hearts ache with love for Jesus. Amen.
 
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