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Virgin Mary Holy Belt

Virgin Mary Holy Belt

    The Holy Belt of Theotokos is the only heirloom that is preserved from its terrestrial life and a part of it is kept in the...
Virgin Holy Protection (Skepe)

Virgin Holy Protection (Skepe)

At the time that Leo the Great (A.D. 457-474) was king, saint Andrew the Fool-for-Christ lived in Constantinople. A night οf vigil in the temple of...
Virgin Eleousa (Mercy Giving)

Virgin Eleousa (Mercy Giving)

The miraculous icon of the Virgin Eleousa was hiding at a depth of one and a half meters under the ground over centuries, and found in a miraculous...
Virgin Zoodochos Pigi (Lifegiving Spring)

Virgin Zoodochos Pigi (Lifegiving Spring)

    About 450 AD a Byzantine soldier called Leon was in a forest, when he saw a blind man in front of him asking for some water to...
Theotokos Land of Non Land

Theotokos Land of Non Land

The fact of the incarnation of the Jesus Christ by the Virgin Mary and the iconography of the Virgin Mary with Jesus Christ in Her bosom, gave the...
Theotokos Ierosolymitissa

Theotokos Ierosolymitissa

   The miraculous image of the Virgin Mary of Jerusalem is pictured in 1870 AD, in a miraculous way. At that time, there was an...
Virgin Kykkou of Cyprus

Virgin Kykkou of Cyprus

    One of the most pious Christian virtues of all Cypriots is the worship of the Virgin Mary, in honour of which, dedicated to the...
Virgin Mary of Sorrows - Seven Swords

Virgin Mary of Sorrows - Seven Swords

    The image of the Virgin Mary with the Seven Spades, four on the left and three on the right, relates to the prophecy of Saint...
Our Lady of the Vine - Holy Monastery of Simonos Petra

Our Lady of the Vine - Holy Monastery of Simonos Petra

    The Holy Monastery of Simonos Petra maintains on the island of Lemnos, in the village of Propouli, a historical monastery...
Virgin Mary of Consolation

Virgin Mary of Consolation

Virgin Mary of Consolation is the most important and famous Byzantine temple in the prefecture of Arta. It was built in the 13th century by...
The Inexhaustible Cup of Life

The Inexhaustible Cup of Life

  The icon of the Virgin Mary, called the "The Inexhaustible cup of Life", became known to the Orthodox World only in 1878, when a miraculous...
Lady of Vladimir

Lady of Vladimir

The miraculous icon of Vladimir is one of Russia's most famous icons and its connection to the Russian people dates back to its...
Lady of Kazan

Lady of Kazan

    Tradition says that the icon of Virgin Mary of Kazan was a gift from the Patriarch of Constantinople Germanus II to the...
Virgin Mary of Passion

Virgin Mary of Passion

    The name of Virgin Mary comes from the anthem of the compline, the Night Prayer, "Spotless, Uncorrupted, Untainted..." composed by...
Lady of the Lilies

Lady of the Lilies

    The Virgin of the Lilies is called also Panagia Gravelotissa, because of the way in which the miraculous icon of Panagia (Virgin...
Virgin Mary of Mount Athos

Virgin Mary of Mount Athos

   The Lady Theotokos was first revealed in Athos, to Saint Peter (655-681) and after four to five centuries, to the abbot of the Great...
Virgin Mary of Roses

Virgin Mary of Roses

    The history of the icon of Virgin Mary "Rose Amaranth" begins around the year 1890 AD, according to the testimonies of the old...
Theotokos Soumela

Theotokos Soumela

    On Mount Mela of Trebizond, at an altitude of 1.063 meters, inside a cave was founded the monastery of Virgin Mary of Sumela in...
Theotokos the Joy of All

Theotokos the Joy of All

    The image of ''Joy of all'' was miraculously found in the village of Klotsky near St Petersburg, Russia, inside a small church. In...
Theotokos Prodromitissa - Holy Skete of the Forerunner

Theotokos Prodromitissa - Holy Skete of the Forerunner

    In the Roman Cloister of the Holy Prodromos of Mount Athos there is the miraculous icon of the Virgin Mary Precursor...
Theotokos Pantanassa - Holy Monastery of Vatopedi

Theotokos Pantanassa - Holy Monastery of Vatopedi

The holy and miracle-working icon of the Virgin Mary was brought to the Vatopedi monastery by the blessed elder Joseph from Nea Skete. The first...
Theotokos Axion Esti

Theotokos Axion Esti

This miracle-working icon, which is today kept on the synthronon of the church of the Protaton in Karyes, was in the late 10th century in a kelli...
Virgin Mary Portaitissa - Holy Monastery Iviron

Virgin Mary Portaitissa - Holy Monastery Iviron

The most famous and most revered miraculus icon of the Theotokos which the Holy Mountain possesse was, in the 9th century in the reign of Theophilus...
Theotokos Ktitorissa or Vimatarissa - Holy Monastery Vatopedi

Theotokos Ktitorissa or Vimatarissa - Holy Monastery Vatopedi

When on one occasion the Arabs raided the Monastery, the deacon-Monk and vematares  (the monk in charge of the sanctuary – vema – and,...
Virgin Mary Tricherousa - Holy Monastery Hilandar

Virgin Mary Tricherousa - Holy Monastery Hilandar

This is the icon which St John of Damascus had recourse and prayed, with his just complaint, holding his severed right hand, with which he had...
Virgin Mary Antifonitria - Holy Monastery Kostamonitou

Virgin Mary Antifonitria - Holy Monastery Kostamonitou

In the reign of the Emperor Constantine Monomachus, in the year 1020, the sacred icon of the Antiphonetria performed the folloeing miracle at the...
Virgin Mary Paleologina - Holy Monastery Grigoriou

Virgin Mary Paleologina - Holy Monastery Grigoriou

The original name of the Palaiologina was “Hodeghetria Pantanassa”. Later, to distinguish it from other icons of the same name, it was renamed...
Virgin Mary Hodegetria - Holy Monastery Ksenofontos

Virgin Mary Hodegetria - Holy Monastery Ksenofontos

This icon had long been in the Katholikon of the Monastery of Vatopedi, on the column of the left choir. In 1730, however, it suddenly disappeared...
Virgin Mary Myrovlitisa - Holy Monastery of St Paul

Virgin Mary Myrovlitisa - Holy Monastery of St Paul

This miraculous icon was once in a famous Constantinople monastery called “Myrelaiou”. From there it was brought to the Holy Mountain by St Paul of...
Virgin Mary Glykofilousa - Holy Monastery Filotheou

Virgin Mary Glykofilousa - Holy Monastery Filotheou

Like the “Portaitissa” is one of the icons saved from the Iconoclastic Controversy and brought miraculously to Athos. It was the property of...
Virgin Mary Gorgoepikoos - Holy Monastery Dochiariou

Virgin Mary Gorgoepikoos - Holy Monastery Dochiariou

The best-known miraculus icon of the Holy Mountain after the Portaotissa is an ancient wall-painting of the Blessed Virgin on the outside of the...
Virgin Mary Epakoyoysa - Holy Monastery Zografou

Virgin Mary Epakoyoysa - Holy Monastery Zografou

When the Blessed Cosmas of Zografou, an anchorite who flourished around the end of the 13th century or the beginning of the 14th, was still living in...
Virgin Mary Proanagelomeni - Holy Monastery Zografou

Virgin Mary Proanagelomeni - Holy Monastery Zografou

During the period of the false union of the Council of Lyons under th pro-Latin Michael VIII Palaeologus and the Patriarch Ioannes Beccus, in the...
Virgin Mary Gerontissa - Holy Monastery of Pantokratoros

Virgin Mary Gerontissa - Holy Monastery of Pantokratoros

In this icon, which is on the pillar of the left choir of the Monastery s katholikon, the Blessed Virgin is shown standing in an attitude of...
Virgin Mary Fovera Prostasia - Holy Monastery Koytloymoysi

Virgin Mary Fovera Prostasia - Holy Monastery Koytloymoysi

This icon of the Theotokos is the only object which was saved from a terrible fire which completely destroyed a metochi of the Monastery in Crete. It...
Panagia Myrovlitisa - Holy Monastery Dionisiou

Panagia Myrovlitisa - Holy Monastery Dionisiou

According to an inscription on a silver plaque on its back, this icon was given by the Emperor Alexius Comnenus to the Blessed Dionysious, the...
Virgin Mary Galaktotrofousa - Holy Monastery Hilandar

Virgin Mary Galaktotrofousa - Holy Monastery Hilandar

This icon was given by the fathers of the Lavra of St Sabbas to St Sabbas, Archibishop of Serbia, during a visit, thus fulfilling an old propecy of...
Virgin Mary Pyrovolithisa - Holy Monastery Of Great Vatopedi

Virgin Mary Pyrovolithisa - Holy Monastery Of Great Vatopedi

When, in 1822, the Holy Mountain was occupied by a Turkish garrison, a soldier dared to shoot at the icon of the Theotokos on the outside of the...
Virgin Mary Eleovrytisa - Holy Great Monastery of Vatopedi

Virgin Mary Eleovrytisa - Holy Great Monastery of Vatopedi

This icon is in the “docheion” (store for liquids – oil, wine) of Monastery and about it the following miracle is narrated: when the Blessed...
Virgin Mary Esfagmeni - Holy Great Monastery of Vatopedi

Virgin Mary Esfagmeni - Holy Great Monastery of Vatopedi

It is told of this icon that it was damaged by the knife of a malcontent deacon-monk and ecclesiarch (in charge of the church, verger), who because...
Virgin Mary Paramythia - Holy Great Monastery of Vatopedi

Virgin Mary Paramythia - Holy Great Monastery of Vatopedi

Tradition tells of this icon that the original expression on the faces of the figures and position of the bodies of Christ and the Blessed Virgin...
Virgin Mary Koykoyzelisa - Holy Monastery of Great Lavra

Virgin Mary Koykoyzelisa - Holy Monastery of Great Lavra

In front of this icon the vigil of the Saturday of the Akathistos Hymn was held from a very early date. After the end of this vigil, and in front of...
Virgin Mary Economissa - Holy Monastery of Great Lavra

Virgin Mary Economissa - Holy Monastery of Great Lavra

The icon was painted to commemorate the words of the Theotokos to the founder of the Monastery St Athanasius the Athonite to the effect that she...
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