The icon is handcrafted Wood, canvas, gesso, varnish, patina.
The icon size is 25*20 cm.
According to legend, Saint Seraphim found an unusual icon of the Mother of God in the Sarov forests. The icon is mentioned in the memoirs of the elder's contemporaries, dating back to the period of his life after 1815, when, having left seclusion, he began to receive pilgrims in his cell. Eyewitnesses recalled that after a joint prayer and blessing, the elder usually anointed the guest's forehead with oil from the lamp burning before the icon in the form of a cross.
Kneeling before it, the saint died on January 15, 1833. Shortly before his death, he said to the Diveyevo nuns, pointing to the icon: "I entrust and leave you in the care of this Queen of Heaven."
On the Seraphim-Diveyevo icon of the Mother of God "Tenderness," the Most Holy Theotokos is depicted in a red dress (tunic), a blue veil (himation), and a white cape (maforia). On her forehead and shoulders are three stars, referring to the liturgical text of the Theotokion: "You were a Virgin before the Nativity, and a Virgin in the Nativity, ⁄ and after the Nativity you again remain a Virgin."
Around the halo of the Virgin Mary are reproduced the words of the ancient Akathist to the Most Holy Theotokos: "Rejoice, O Bride Unwedded", which is a poetic interpretation of the Gospel greeting of Archangel Gabriel to the Virgin Mary: Rejoice, Blessed One.
In Orthodoxy, icons are not magical objects that can cure illness or bring good luck in themselves. Healing of the soul and body occurs through God's grace through the prayers of the one depicted on the icon. The Most Holy Theotokos is our intercessor before God, and if we turn to Her and the Lord with faith and prayer, we can hope that God will send healing or relief from illness, console us in sorrow, and help us find solutions to various problems.