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Hand painted icon of Virgin Mary - Burning Bush, Incombustible blackberry

The icon is hand painted on wood.

The condition is very good.

30 x 20 x 2 cm.

The burning bush is an icon of the Mother of God.
The name of the icon goes back to the Old Testament image. This type of icons symbolically reveal several aspects of her worship at the same time and are based on the most important Old Testament canons of the incarnation of Christ.

The image has been known since the early centuries of Christianity. The "Burning Bush" was originally depicted as a burning bush in which the image of the Virgin (usually in the form of Oranta) and the kneeling prophet Moses were enclosed. Later, already in the 16th century, a rather complex symbolic-allegorical image was formed in the form of an octagonal star surrounding the image of the Mother of God with the Christ Child.

In the center of the icon is an image of the Mother of God with a baby in her arms.
A number of symbolic attributes related to Old Testament prophecies: the mountain of Daniel's prophecy, Jacob's ladder, Ezekiel's gate, etc. This image is enclosed in an eight-pointed star formed by two quadrangles - green and red.

Another theme of the icon is the service of the angels of the Mother of God and the worship of the heavenly powers of the miraculous birth of God from the Virgin - their images are located in the rays of an eight-pointed star; among them are archangels and nameless angels - personifications of the elements known from the Book of Enoch and other apocryphal writings.

The "Inflammable Bush" icon is revered as an intercessor.
On September 12, 2008, the President of Ukraine signed a decree to create a new holiday - the Day of the Savior of Ukraine, celebrated on the day of the celebration of the icon of the Mother of God "Inflammable Bush".