Our Lady Icon question

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Hello, a question came to me and I thought I’d ask here.
I was curious,
How come in the Icon of Our Lady Of Perpetual Help her mantilla is blue when in almost all Icons it is red. Thanks.
 
I think that the simple answer to that is that the Icon of OLPH is really a western one - and therefore her mantle is blue.

However the equivalent Icon in the east is that of the Theotokos of the Passion and here her mantle is dark red

Does that help ?
 
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I think that the simple answer to that is that the Icon of OLPH is really a western one - and therefore her mantle is blue.

However the equivalent Icon in the east is that of the Theotokos of the Passion and here her mantle is dark red

Does that help ?
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Yes it does. Thanks. I had no idea OLPH was Western. Do you know the history behind it? Where it originated from?
 
Yes? Someone was calling? 🙂

The icon known in the West as “Our Lady of Perpetual Help” is the same as the icon of “Our Lady of the Passion” as it is known in the East - the same icon.

I have a special devotion to it as my grandmother gave my father a copy of the icon as he fled Eastern Europe during World War II. Her first cousin was the Redemptorist Archbishop of the underground Ukrainian Catholic Church, Kyr Volodymyr Sterniuk who, like all Redemptorists, had a special devotion to Our Lady under that title.

I first learned to pray before that and I know that that copy itself is . . .miracle-working.

Now I don’t know what to do with it. Is it wrong for me to keep it to myself? Should I report these miracles to the church authorities? What say you?

That icon was taken by a merchant from a church on the isle of Crete and eventually made its way to Rome. The accurate details are on the Redemptorist website here:

www.cssr.com/english/whoarewe/iconstory.shtml

I’ve translated (not written, but translated) an akathist to Our Lady of Perpetual Help (as our Ukrainian Redemptorists also refer to it - which is OK) here:

www.ukrainian-orthodoxy.org/prayer/aaPrayer.htm

(just scroll down the list to it) There is also an Orthodox akathist to Our Lady of the Passion in Slavonic that is on this website: www.akafist.narod.ru

I don’t know about the inversion of colours. The belief is that this icon was painted/written by St Luke himself. Hopefully, he knew what he was doing!

Alex
 
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