The original icon of Our Lady of Seven Arrows was uncovered in the 19th century in the city of Vologda some peasant who found her on the church kolokolne. Some time later, when the city epidemic of cholera, according to the prayers of the Mother of God before this healed many people. She became revered as miraculous.
Unfortunately, after the 1917 revolution, she disappeared from the church of St. John the Evangelist, where he kept, and since then her whereabouts are unknown.
On the icon of the Mother of God is depicted without the Infant Christ. In her breasts drawn seven arrows (swords), symbolizing war, hatred, misfortune, illness and other misfortunes that Holy reflects their prayers. The story of this icon in common with other known manner of Our Lady Softener of Evil Hearts, which also shows the seven swords. At the same time, the iconographic meaning of the two icons of the same - Holy Mother of God, he prays to the world, about getting rid of hostility from human cruelty.
Desktop icon is made of bronze and covered with silvering, followed by blackening, which gives the image of a kind of old-fashioned. Leake was written by hand on the oil with gold leaf. The base of the icon is made of precious wood with decorative artistic elements.
Manufacturer: Ukraine.
Exact Size: 16 x 12 cm.
Material: precious wood, bronze, silver, gold plating.
