Theotokos facts for kids

Mother-of-God of Kazan

An 18th-century Russian chart of the various types of Bogoroditsa (Mother-of-God) icons

Theotokos (Greek: Θεοτόκος) is a title of Mary, mother of Jesus, used especially in Eastern Christianity.

Images for kids

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  Theotokos on the throne

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  [Salus Populi Romani]], Rome (5th or 6th century)

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  heotokos icon of Saint Catherine's Monastery, Sinai (6th century)

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  Blachernae Icon of the Theotokos (7th century)

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  Mother of God, mosaic icon, Hagia Sophia (12th century)

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  [mosaic]] (ca 1130), Gelati Monastery, Georgia (12th century)

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  The Iveron Theotokos (Iverskaya), an 11th-century Russian icon based on the 10th-century Hodegetria type, Iviron Monastery, Mount Athos.

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  Theotokos Panachranta from Svensky Monastery, by St. Alypios of Kiev (11th century)

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  Panachranta Theotokos, mid-11th-century Kievan illumination from the Gertrude Psalter.

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  Theotokos of Vladimir (c. 1100)

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  Theotokos of St. Theodore (12th century)

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  Our Lady Derzhavnaya (18th century)

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  ogomater of the "Unfading Flower" (Неувядаемый Цвет) type (18th century, Tretyakov Gallery)

See also

In Spanish: Theotokos para niños