Orthodox calendar: October 26 – feast of the Iveron Icon of the Blessed Virgin Marytranslated

22nd Week after Pentecost.

Today, October 26, 2026, the Orthodox Church honors the memory of the Iveron Icon of the Mother of God4 martyr. Karpa, ep. Thyatrian, Papila the deacon, Agathodorus and MC. Agathonics (251); martyr Florence (I-II); martyr Benjamin the deacon (421-424); St. Nikita isp (c. 838); St. Benjamin of Pechersk (XIV); St. Meletius, Patriarch of Alexandria (1601); memory of the miracle of the military medical center. Zlaty (Chrys) in Skopje (1912); sschmchch. Innocent and Nicholas presbyters (1937); acquisition of the relics of sschmch. Thaddeus, Archbishop. Tverskoy (1993); Sedmiezernaya Icon of the Mother of God (XVII).

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The Iveron Icon, now located on Mount Athos, was in the 9th century in the possession of a pious widow who lived near the city of Nicaea. Under Emperor Theophilus (829 - 842), the iconoclasts, who were destroying holy icons, came to the house of this Christian woman, and one warrior struck the image of the Mother of God with a spear. Blood immediately flowed from the affected area. The widow, fearing the destruction of the shrine, promised the imperial soldiers money and asked them not to touch the icon until the morning. When they left, the woman, together with her son (later an Athonite monk), lowered it into the sea to preserve the holy icon. The icon, standing on the water, sailed to Athos. Athonite monks, several...