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    A Hodegetria, or Virgin Hodegetria, is an iconographic depiction of the Theotokos (Virgin Mary) holding the Child Jesus at her side while pointing to him...
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    The Hodegon Monastery (also Monastery of the Panaghia Hodegetria or Monastery of the Hodegoi) in Constantinople was allegedly founded by Saint Pulcheria...
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    Chapel of Our Lady of Itria, also known as the Church of Our Lady of Hodegetria (Maltese: Knisja tal-Madonna ta’ Hodegitria), is a small Roman Catholic...
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    Μονή Γωνιάς), Monastery of Our Lady of Gonia or Monastery of Panagia Hodegetria (Μονή της Οδηγήτριας) is an Orthodox monastery located 1 km north of Kolymvari...
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    Blachernitissa, etc., or descriptive of the depicted posture, as in Hodegetria, Eleusa, etc. The term Madonna in the sense of "picture or statue of the...
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    the icons of Orthodox Christianity. The Virgin Mary is shown as the "Hodegetria" version (meaning "One Who Shows the Way" or “Οδηγήτρια” in Greek). In...
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    accrue to the Hodegetria icon, suggesting the stories have become conflated; in terms of composition the Tikhvin icon is of the Hodegetria type. Some art...
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    Suharekë, Duhël, Mushtishtë, Popolan, Reçan, and churches of Virgin Hodegetria, St. George, Holy Trinity, St. Nicholas, among others. The settlement...
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    During the last siege of Constantinople in 1453, the Icon of the Theotokos Hodegetria, considered the protector of the City, was brought to Chora in order to...
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    Archbishop Danilo II (s. 1324–37) built the Church of the Holy Mother of God Hodegetria and the Church of St. Nicholas on the south side. In front of the three...
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    independence from the Russian rule. The fate of Vilna icon of Theotokos Hodegetria (Theotokos of Vilna) that for two centuries (1715—1915) was located in...
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    Damascus. It depicts Theotokos (Virgin Mary) with young Jesus in the hodegetria position, and is covered with a riza. On the back of the icon is the painting...
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    medieval Serbian Orthodox churches, including the notable Church of Virgin Hodegetria, which was destroyed in 1999. The village used to have a mixed Albanian-Serbian...
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    for historical reasons. The church owns an icon of the Virgin of the Hodegetria type, which originally lay in a Dominican church in Caffa, Crimea. The...
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    icon. The icon belongs to a family of images of the Theotokos known as Hodegetria (Greek: Όδηγήτρια, "she who leads the way") after the prototype from Constantinople...
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    The Church of the Virgin Hodegetria (Russian: Церковь иконы Божией Матери "Одигитрия" or Свято-Одигитриевская церковь) is a Russian Orthodox church in...
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    Eastern church, the Mandylion, also known as the Image of Edessa, and the Hodegetria, and several Russian icons, and in the West the Shroud of Turin, Veil...
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  • Thumbnail for Icon of the Triumph of Orthodoxy
    Shown in the icon's composition are important figures such as the Virgin Hodegetria, her child Jesus, and eleven saints and martyrs associated with the Triumph...
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  • Radoslav of Serbia's ring, 1218–20 inscription of the Church of the Virgin Hodegetria, Mušutište, 1315 Stefan Dušan's plate, between 1331 and 1355 Baldovin's...
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    Vladimir (c. 1130) Andrei Rublev, Trinity (1411 or 1423–1425) Dionisius, Hodegetria of Smolensk (c. 1500) Athanasius of Moscow, Blessed Be the Host of the...
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    palace in Blachernae were the walls; Byzantium's most sacred icon, the Hodegetria, was cut into four pieces and destroyed. The most monstrous events took...
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    Judgement. Noteworthy is also a mosaic depicting a Madonna with Child (of the Hodegetria type) in the middle apse (11th century). The most important artistic element...
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    referred to simply as Itria, its name the rendition in Italian of the Greek Hodegetria, one of the standard iconographic depictions of the Virgin Mary. Probably...
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    have painted pictures of the Virgin Mary and Child, in particular the Hodegetria image in Constantinople (now lost). Starting from the 11th century, a...
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    Hodegetria church in Vyazma is one of three major churches with three tents placed in a row....
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  • Thumbnail for Church of the Virgin Hodegetria, Mušutište
    The Church of the Virgin Hodegetria (Serbian: Црква Богородице Одигитриjе, romanized: Crkva Bogorodice Odigitrije; Albanian: Kisha e Virgjëreshës së Shenjtë...
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    consecration, Boniface placed an icon of the Mother of God as 'Panagia Hodegetria' (All Holy Directress) within the new sanctuary. The building's consecration...
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    Greece. The abbot Pachomius incorporated into it the small church of the Hodegetria, or "Aphentikon", as the monastery's catholicon. The church was reconstructed...
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    Vigilant) Hagia Skepe (the Sacred Protection) Hagia Zone (the Sacred Girdle) Hodegetria (the Leader) Hypermachos Strategos (the Defending General) Kataphyge (the...
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    Spanish Virgin and Child with Saint Anne influenced ultimately by Greek "Hodegetria" icons The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne from Oaxaca, Mexico St. Anne...
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