Jerusalem icon of the mother of God

October 25 is the day of the celebration of the Jerusalem Icon of the Mother of God, which, according to legend, was painted by the holy Apostle and Evangelist Luke fifteen years after the Ascension of the Savior near the Garden of Gethsemane. The Jerusalem image of the Mother of God came to Russia in the year of the Baptism of Rus as a gift from Constantinople to the Holy Equal-to-the-Apostles Prince Vladimir, who was baptized in the city of Korsun (present-day Chersonesus) and married there with Anna, sister of the Constantinople emperors Basil and Constantine.