Theotokos the Unburnt Bush

The Most Holy Theotokos the Unburnt Bush icon is commemorated by the Church on September 4, together with the memory of the prophet Moses. Sometimes it is called the Burning Bush icon.

The icon of the Mother of God of the Unburnt Bush is an ancient one that is widely venerated in Russia, and is popularly believed to offer protection against fire. Its significance, however, is far deeper and more expansive, and this beautiful, complex, yet unified icon is in fact a theological reflection on the position of the Mother of God in the economy of salvation.

According to legend, the icon was thought to have originated at the Monastery of Saint Catherine, in the Sinai Desert, one of the oldest extant Christian monasteries, where its prototype was depicted on the stone of the rock where God appeared to Moses from the mysterious burning bush (Exodus 3: 1-15). Christian monastic life began in the desert, in the region around Mount Sinai, where as early as the mid-3rd century, men and women left the world to live as hermits in the desert, seeking God without distraction and practicing the ascetic life. Saint Anthony of Egypt, regarded as the father of monasticism, retreated into Egypt’s Eastern Desert, and word of his holiness inspired many others to cast off their worldly possessions and to join him at the foot of Mount Sinai, and at nearby mountains, to seek sanctity by leading lives of strict spiritual and physical discipline.

This eventually led to the development of small communities where anchorites lived in caves, stone cells or huts and spent their days as solitaries in silence and prayer, particularly around Mount Horeb, which was believed to be the site where God appeared to the prophet Moses in the Burning Bush. This trend intensified after the beginning of the 4th century, when Constantine’s Edict of Milan (303 AD) put an end to persecutions, and many Christians turned to lives of extreme hardship in the wilderness as alternatives to physical martyrdom.

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