Panachranta (from el, πανάχραντος "all-immaculate") is a type of

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in the

Eastern Orthodox Eastern Orthodoxy, also known as Eastern Orthodox Christianity, is one of the three main branches of Chalcedonian Christianity, alongside Catholicism and Protestantism. Like the Pentarchy of the first millennium, the mainstream (or " canonical ...

Church, that refers to the ''all immaculate''

Virgin Mary Mary; arc, ܡܪܝܡ, translit=Mariam; ar, مريم, translit=Maryam; grc, Μαρία, translit=María; la, Maria; cop, Ⲙⲁⲣⲓⲁ, translit=Maria was a first-century Jewish woman of Nazareth, the wife of Joseph and the mother of ...

, the Theotokos.

Description

Panachranta type icons depict the royally enthroned Mother of God holding her Son on her lap.

Examples

The Icon of the ''Enthroned Virgin and Child with saints and angels'' dates from the 6th century and is found at

Saint Catherine's Monastery Saint Catherine's Monastery ( ar, دير القدّيسة كاترين; grc-gre, Μονὴ τῆς Ἁγίας Αἰκατερίνης), officially the Sacred Autonomous Royal Monastery of Saint Katherine of the Holy and God-Trodden Mount Sinai, ...

at the foot of

Mount Sinai Mount Sinai ( he , הר סיני ''Har Sinai''; Aramaic: ܛܘܪܐ ܕܣܝܢܝ ''Ṭūrāʾ Dsyny''), traditionally known as Jabal Musa ( ar, جَبَل مُوسَىٰ, translation: Mount Moses), is a mountain on the Sinai Peninsula of Egypt. It is ...

. The 11th century ''Theotokos Panachranta'' is from

Svensky Monastery Svensky Monastery (Russian: Свенский монастырь) is a Russian Orthodox monastery located at the confluence of the Desna and Sven Rivers, three miles from Bryansk, Russia. The monastery was originally known as Svinsky, after the Svi ...

. With the Theotokos are SS

Anthony and Theodosius Anthony and Theodosius were sainted founders of the Russian and Ukrainian monasticism. They established the Kiev Pechersk Monastery in the mid-11th century. See Saint Anthony of Kiev and Theodosius of Kiev for details. In the Eastern Orthodox Chu ...

of Kiev. It is popularly attributed to the most celebrated icon-painter of Kievan Rus, St. Alypius from the

Kiev Pechersk Monastery Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra or Kyivo-Pechers’ka Lavra ( uk, Києво-Печерська лавра, translit=Kyievo-Pecherska lavra, russian: Киево-Печерская лавра), also known as the Kyiv Monastery of the Caves, is a historic Ea ...

and is possibly modeled on a mosaic from the central conch of the Assumption Cathedral in the Pechersk Monastery. ''The Mother of God

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'' belongs to the Panachranta type. Shortly before Napoleon's invasion in 1812, it was moved for safekeeping from the Ascension Convent in Moscow to the Church of the Ascension in the village of Kolomskoye, where it remained until rediscovered in 1917."Icon of the Mother of God "Enthroned", Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America
/ref> File:Encaustic Virgin.jpg, Enthroned Virgin and Child File:Svenskaya.jpg, ''Theotokos Panachranta'', Svensky Monastery File:Our Lady Derzhavnaya.jpg, the "Enthroned" icon

References

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Description

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