Theotokos "Comforter" icon Mounted on wood Sizes:3 X 5

Theotokos "Comforter" icon Mounted on wood Sizes:3 X 5Orthodox icon of Theotokos "Comforter", Paramithia, "", Theotokos of "Paramythia", 8 cent. Monastery of Vatopaidi Mount Athos. The tradition tells us that on the icon, the original expression on the faces of the figures and the position of the bodies of Christ and the Theotokos changed when the following strange miracle occurred, January 21, 807: Pirates had secretly landed on the shore of Vatopaidi Monastery and were hiding, waiting for the gates to

but not as they ought to have done

Commemorated February 19

His Canon in honor of the Mother of God Quick to Hear (November 9) and his Service and Encomium in Honor of the Fathers who Shone on the Holy Mountain of Athos are used even beyond the Holy Mountain

Orthodox icon of the Most Holy Theotokos "Enthroned" (5)

Orthodox icon of Theotokos "Tenderness" (20)

and they began to burn him with fire

By God's dispensation

he arrived on Mount Athos and received the monastic tonsure in the Dionysiou monastery with the name Nicodemus

Dionysius accepted his salvific proclamation and became a Christian

Julian became furious and resorted to even more savage tortures

Her husband turned out to be an impious and crude man

restored the youth to life