Marian devotion
Our Lady of Vladímir
The Virgin of Terno
The icon of Our Lady of Vladímir, a Byzantine work of the 12th century, is one of the most famous Marian icons in the world: the Mother and the Child bow with cheek in an infinite tenderness gesture.
Origin and history
The icon was painted to the temple on board in Constantinople around 1130, in Byzantine style, and belongs to the iconographic type of the Theotokos Eleusa, where the Child Jesus supports his cheek on that of his Mother. A pious tradition attributes it to Luke, but this attribution is not historically documented and is considered a devout legend.
Around 1155 the Patriarch of Constantinople sent him as a gift to Prince Yuri Dolgoruki; his son Andréi Bogoliubski moved him to the city of Vladímir, entering him around 1160 in a cathedral built to receive him. As Moscow became a political center, the icon was taken there; today it is preserved in the Tretiakov Gallery. Russian tradition associates it with the spiritual protection and unity of the nation.
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