Blessed Virgin Mary's icon Burning bush

Celebration in honor of this icon of the Mother of God happens in the present day for the sake of the memory of the Prophet and Bogowidz Moses made in the same day, videvshago in Madiamskaya's desert a nesgarayushchy kupina (a thorny bush, the Outcome. III, 2. 3). The burning bush — that bush which Moses saw burning on fire, but not burning down was one of the antiquated prototypes indicating the Mother of God. This kupina marked immaculate conception by Christ's Mother of God from the Spirit Svyaty.

Byv Mother, She remained a Maiden: till Christmas the Maiden, in Christmas the Maiden and after Christmas the Maiden.

It is possible to give also another still interpretation to a burning bush prototype: The Mother of God, having been born on the guilty earth, was certainly pure, not privy to a sin, not learned lawlessness. On a folk belief this icon of the Mother of God relieves houses esteeming her from fire.

"Burning bush" is represented sometimes in the form of the bush filled with a flame over which the Mother of God with the Baby seen from a belt on hands towers. This image is rare. The octagonal star surrounding the Mother of God is much more often represented. The star is made of two chetyreugolnik. One is painted in red color — in an image of a flame, another, reminding greens of a mysterious bush — in green. In icon corners — four symbols mentioned in John the Evangelist's Apocalypse: the person, a lion, little bodies and an eagle, and also archangels with those symbols what are acquired them by the church legend — Mikhail with a staff, Rafail with an alabastrum, Uriel with a fiery sword, Salathiel with a censer, Varakhiil with grape grozdiy and Gabriel with a christian message branch. In hands of the Mother of God the lestvitsa leaned by the top end against a shoulder of the Mother of God — a sign of the fact that It built mankind from the earth to the Sky is located still sometimes, except the Baby. Write sometimes in addition a gate and a staff — a symbol of the Savior called in church songs by "a staff from Iyeseev's root".