the topic of how many there are. there are such icons on the list , he says that there are about twenty-one of them, respectively, the minsk icon of the mother of godone of those lists. you can talk about this, which essentially refers to a copy of the icon that he painted the apostle of luke, and naturally, but it is very important for us, when discussing the icon, to immediately distinguish and clearly determine for ourselves that it is not the icon itself that hears, it hears nothing maybe because it's a thing. this is an object, but it hears the image that is depicted on it. that is, if we turn to the attack of the mother of god, then, accordingly, this is a connection with the most holy theotokos. if we turn to christ, it means, accordingly, that the lord hears, and not the iconus icon itself, as our, for example, theologians say. and this is like a window , like a door that gives us the opportunity to have this connection, so it is very important to realize this, because when we talk about miraculousness and so on. the icon itself performs miracles, and the image is the image that is depicted on it, that is, imagine the mother of god and the