Theotokos of Pochayiv is an Eastern Orthodox

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 icon

Icon

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 of the Virgin Mary, painted in a late Byzantine

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 style, of the Eleusa

Eleusa

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 iconographic

Iconography

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 type. Like many famous icons, it is now usually displayed with most of the surface except the faces covered by an elaborate frame in precious metals, or riza

Riza

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It has been in the Pochayiv Lavra

Pochayiv Lavra

Holy Dormition Pochayiv Lavra has for centuries been the foremost spiritual and ideological centre of various Orthodox denominations in Western Ukraine. The monastery tops a 60-metre hill in the town of Pochayiv, Ternopil Oblast, 18 km southwest of Kremenets and 50 km north of Ternopil...

 (monastery), in Ternopil

Ternopil

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 oblast

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, Ukraine

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, since 1597, when it was given by a wealthy widow Anna or Hanna Hoyska, who owned the town of Pochayiv in second half of 16th century. Earlier the sacred image was given to Anna by Greek

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 metropolitan

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 Neophyte.
According to some sources, Virgin Mary depicted on the icon helped to heal the brother of Hanna Hoyska Philip from blindness.

Later the Theotokos of Pochayiv acquired a reputation as a miracle-working icon. The day of Theotokos of Pochayiv icon is marked by Orthodox communities on August, 5.