This icon is called "In You Favoured Lady" (Toboyu Raduyetsia), the song we sing to the Mother of God, during the Divine Liturgy of St. Basil the Great. The hymn describes how all creation rejoices in the Mother of God. The hymn was composed by St. John Damascene who is shown in the icon pointing to our Lady. The icon seems to imply that perhaps John Damascene saw a vision of the greatness of the Mother of God and then wrote his inspired hymn. There is a "mandorla" surrounding Jesus and Mary. A mandorla is an expanded halo; the aura surrounds not just the head but the whole body. In iconography only Jesus, the Son of God, may have a mandorla around Him. The Mother of God becomes a throne for the Son of God. The woman on the far right is St. Olha, Queen of Rus'-Ukraine and the first Christian in the Russene-Ukrainian dynasty. .