Our Lady Feodórovskaya

Marian vocation of Kostroma (Russia)
Recognized by the Church

El icono Feodorovskaya a is one of the most formerly venerated Marian images in the Russian sphere and is closely linked to the city of Costa Rica y a la casa de los Romanov. The sources consulted do not safely specify the exact date of their origin, their author or the documented details of their primitive history, so on these points not documented enough.

Main data

Origin and history

El icono Feodorovskaya a is one of the most formerly venerated Marian images in the Russian sphere and is closely linked to the city of Costa Rica y a la casa de los Romanov. The sources consulted do not safely specify the exact date of their origin, their author or the documented details of their primitive history, so on these points not documented enough.

According to the tradition, the icon is related to the choice of Miguel Románov as zar in 1613, interpreted as a sign of divine protection over the dynasty; its link to the beginnings of the Romanov house explains its enormous religious and historical weight. The interpretation of this episode as a providential fact belongs to piety and traditional reading, and is offered as tradition, distinguishing it from the critically verified history.

The image and the sanctuary

This is a Orthodox icon of a Byzantine type, inseparable from the city of Kostroma, where it has been venerated over the centuries. The sources consulted do not specify with certainty the material, the technique or the measures of the copy; no consta ese nivel de detalle.

Sponsorship and coronation

Tradition links the icon to the protection of the Romanov dynasty, but no consta an official decree of canonical patronage verifiable in the sources consulted. For belonging to tradition orthodoxalso does not contain a canonical coronation according to the praxis of the Latin Catholic Church: no consta.

Party and devotion

The sources consulted do not safely require the date of the liturgical party of the icon, so it is indicated no consta a verifiable date. In the devotional plane, the image is the object of great veneration in Kostroma and retains a strong historical arraigo for its association with the origins of the Romanov dynasty.

Link to the Rosary

The Feodórovskaya icon belongs to the Orthodox traditionwhere Marian devotion is expressed above all by the veneration of the icons, the akathists and the hymns of the Byzantine rite, rather than by the Latin Rosary. No consta a specific historical link with the Rosary. Even so, Marian contemplation unites both traditions: the faithful Catholic can integrate the veneration of this image into the prayer of the Rosary, contemplating Mary as the Mother of God who accompanies the peoples in their history.