Our Lady of the Sign
（重定向自Platytera）
![13th century Icon of Our Lady of the Sign from Yaroslavl (Kiev School, ca. 1114. Tretiakov Gallery, Moscow).](/Images/godic/202502/03/Oranta5245.jpg")
![Our Lady of the Sign (18th century, iconostasis of the Transfiguration church, Kizhi monastery, Karelia, Russia).](/Images/godic/202502/03/Mother_of_God_-Znameniye5245.jpg")
![18th century Byzantine-style bronze of Our Lady of the Sign from Jerusalem, showing the Mary, the mother of Jesus in the](/Images/godic/202502/03/Prayer_Mother_Mary5246.jpg")
The Icon of Our Lady of the Sign (Greek:Panagia or Παναγία; Old Church Slavonic:Ikona Bozhey Materi "Znamenie"; Polish: Ikona Bogurodzicy "Znak" ') is the term for a particular type of icon of the Theotokos (Virgin Mary), facing the viewer directly, depicted either full length or half, with her hands raised in the orans position, and with the image of the Child Jesus depicted within a round aureole upon her breast.