According to tradition, this image was painted in Gethsemane by the holy Evangelist
Luke in the fifteenth year after the Ascension of the Lord. According to tradition, this image was painted in Gethsemane by the holy Evangelist
Luke in the fifteenth year after the Ascension of the Lord.
In 463, the image was translated to Constantinople. Through the succor of the Jerusalem Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos, the Byzantine forces repulsed the attacks of the Scythians. In 988, the icon was brought to Kherson and gifted to the holy peer of the Apostles, Prince Vladimir. When the Novgorodians accepted Christianity, Saint Vladimir sent them this image. Ivan the Terrible translated this image in 1571 to the Moscow Dormition Cathedral. During Napoleon's invasion in 1812, the original disappeared and was replaced by a faithful copy.
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