U378 Extreme Humility - Car Room Wall - Wooden Icon Shrine Pendant Ornament on Rope - Icon Covered With Special Glass - Crystals and Incense 3 inch

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  • The size of the icon shrine 3 Inch tall - Total length with rope about 10 inches


Each wood shrine has a 10 inch adjustable cord for hanging. Below the icon in each shrine are a few grains of "incense" as a symbol of our prayer - "Let my prayer arise as incense before Thy site." Shrine is enhanced with with its blue faux crystals conveys the peace we find in Christ’s creation as well as in God’s creation of the sea and sky!

Perfect as a mini shrine for car or home.

Icon and wood frame made in Ukraine.

The icon is known as the VIRGIN OF EXTREME HUMILITY as well as OUR LADY OF EXTREME HUMILITY - OUR LADY OF TENDERNESS - OUR LADY OF SORROWS - LA DOLOROSA - MOTHER OF SORROWS - UMILENIE - JOY OF ALL JOYS!

There are many different names for and variations of this icon in Eastern and Western veneration. Regardless of how it is portrayed its message is the same - come to me! The icon is in an "Eleusa" style - meaning the Virgin is compassionate and conveys intimacy, gentleness and grace to her children. Our loving Mother!

One of the few icons in which the Blessed Mother (Theotokos) is pictured alone. Her hands are crossed with humility in acceptance of the will of God -

The Western Church celebrates the Virgin of Extreme Humility (also known as Mother of Sorrows) on Sept 15th - the day after the Exaltation of the Holy Cross. In the East its feast day is July 28th (August 10th Old Calendar) and Dec 9 (Dec 22nd Old Calendar) on the Feast of the Conception of St Anne.

St Pope John Paul venerated him and referred to him as a Saint in his book "Crossing the Threshold of Hope."

The icon is very famous for the veneration of our Lady by St Seraphim of Sarov a Russian ascetic of the 18th century - a holy man venerated in the Orthodox Church on January 2 and the opening of his relics on July 19th. Tradition holds St Seraphim prayed most of this life before this image - one tradition holds he prayed for 2000 days on a stone slab in front of this image and died in its presence on Jan 2, 1833. Many of the visitors to St Seraphim were healed by this icon. It is a miraculous today in the Diveevsk Seraphimovsk Monastery.