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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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    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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    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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    Suharekë, Duhël, Mushtishtë, Popolan, Reçan, and churches of Virgin Hodegetria, St. George, Holy Trinity, St. Nicholas, among others. The settlement...
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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    dispersed discontentedly to nearby venues where they drank toasts to the Hodegetria icon, which had, according to late Byzantine tradition, interceded to...
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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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    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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    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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    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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    Mariampol, a suburb of Bakhchysarai in Crimea. The name was derived from the Hodegetria icon of the Holy Theotokos and the Virgin Mary. Subsequently, in 1780...
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    hagiou Lazarou), and the Small Gate of the Hodegetria (μικρὰ πύλη τῆς Ὁδηγητρίας, mikra pylē tēs Hodēgētrias), both named after the respective monasteries...
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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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  • Lysippus Apoxyomenos bronze -330 330 BCE Multiple marble copies Saint Luke Hodegetria 0060 60-84 AD 1261 Many copies exist. Giotto Madonna panel 1297-1337 1406-...
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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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  • 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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    Byzantine Empire and now generally regarded as lost or destroyed, as is the Hodegetria image of the Virgin Mary. Other early images in Italy, all heavily and...
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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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    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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    Theodosius II, d. 460) sent an image of the "Mother of God" named Icon of the Hodegetria from Jerusalem to Pulcheria, daughter of Arcadius, the former emperor...
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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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    thrive in Sicily. Sicilian Catholics For Catholics in Sicily, the Virgin Hodegetria is the patroness of Sicily. The Sicilian people are also known for their...
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    on the shoulder and one on the forehead. This type of icon is called Hodegetria, where Mary is pointing to her Son, known as a Theotokos of the Passion...
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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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    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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  • Mater East Agiosoritissa Madonna del Rosario Derzhavnaya Eleusa Theotokos of Vladimir Hodegetria Related Life of the Virgin Saint Luke painting the Virgin...
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