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icon, suggesting the stories have become conflated; in terms of composition the Tikhvin icon is of the Hodegetria type. Some art historians prefer a date of about 1300, and a Russian artist. This matches a further tradition that the icon miraculously appeared, hovering over a lake, in Russia near
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In August 1978, the Theotokos of Tikhvin was brought by Archbishop John, who had become the
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Since the 14th century, the icon was held in Tikhvin, where eventually
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Reproduction of Tikhvin Icon enshrined in historic Chicago cathedral
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for veneration to St Mary's Russian Orthodox Church in
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Tikhvin
riza
Russian
Orthodox Christian
icons
St. Luke the Evangelist
Jerusalem
Constantinople
Hodegetria
Tikhvin

Tikhvin
Tikhvin Assumption Monastery
World War II
German troops
Pskov
Riga
United States
Latvian Orthodox Church
John (Garklāvs)
Holy Trinity Orthodox Cathedral in Chicago
Illinois
Orthodox Church in America
Archbishop of Chicago and Minneapolis
Holdingford, Minnesota
Tikhvin
Chicago
riza
riza

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