Icon of the Mother of God "Galichskaya"

The Galich Icon of the Mother of God (Chukhloma, Gorodetskaya) is a miraculous icon of the Mother of God revered in the Russian Church, revealed, according to legend, to the Monk Abraham of Galich. The icon belongs to the iconographic type of Eleusa (Tenderness). The celebration of the icon takes place on May 28, July 20, August 15 (according to the Julian calendar). Tradition attributes to the icon a miraculous appearance to the Monk Abraham on a tree on a hill near Lake Galich, where he came with the blessing of Sergius of Radonezh