Egg Icon Seven Sorrows Mother of God

The Most Holy Theotokos is depicted pierced by seven arrows. The Most Pure Virgin is depicted with swords stuck into Her heart - three on the right and four on the left. The number “seven” in the Holy Scriptures usually means the completeness, redundancy of something, and in this case, the fullness and vastness of the grief, sadness and “heart disease” that the Mother of God experienced during Her earthly life. The icon depicts the Gospel story of how, on the fortieth day after the Nativity of Christ, Righteous Joseph and the Blessed Virgin Mary brought the Divine Infant to the temple to perform rituals over him according to the Law of Moses.The Icon of the Seven Sorrow is one of the most miraculous icons in Russia. This image depicts the prophecy of Saint Simeon about the pain that the Mother of God will experience when she sees the torment of her Son on the Cross. His words: "The weapon itself will pass the soul for you,'' symbolically depicted on the Seven Sorrows Icon. Height with stand 8". Seven swords piercing the soul of the Seven Sorrows symbolize the fullness of her grief, since it is the number seven in the St Scriptures that denotes the fullness of something.