Orthodox calendar: November 15 – celebration of the Icon of the Mother of God “Hodegetria”, called Shuiskaya-Smolenskayatranslated

24th Sunday after Pentecost.

Today, November 15, 2026, the Orthodox Church honors the memory of the martyr. Akindina, Pigasia, Affonia, Elpidiphora, Anempodista and others like them (c. 341-345); St. Marcian of Cyrene (388); sschmchch. Constantine and Ananias presbyters (1918); Shuya-Smolensk Icon of the Mother of God (1654-1655).

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November 15 – celebration of the Icon of the Mother of God “Hodegetria”, called Shuiskaya-Smolenskaya

The history of the appearance of the miraculous image of the Mother of God of Shuya-Smolensk is connected with the plague epidemic that struck the city of Shuya in 1654. The legend about the icon reports that parishioners of the Church of the Resurrection proposed to paint a new image of the Mother of God Hodegetria of Smolensk “for deliverance from the troubles and misfortunes that befell them.” The painting of the new icon was entrusted to the icon painter Gerasim Tikhonovich Ikonnikov in 1655. The icon was placed in the local row to the left of the royal doors of the iconostasis of the Resurrection Cathedral in the city of Shuya. Soon the illness stopped, and miracles continued to be performed from the icon.

The Shuya-Smolensk Icon is a half-length image of the Mother of God with the Child Christ on...