Theotokos "Tenderness" icon(18) Mounted on wood Sizes:4 X 6

Theotokos "Tenderness" icon(18) Mounted on wood Sizes:4 X 6Orthodox icon of Theotokos "Tenderness" (18), 9th century, Filotheou Monastery Mountain Athos. This icon belonged to a noble lady of Constantinople, named Victoria. During the last period of Iconoclast, Victoria to save the icon, throw it in to the sea. The icon traveled miraculously and came to Mountain Athos. The monks saw the icon traveling upright on the waves and they went and picked it from the water and placed it in the Katholiko (main church)

and continued to wear it

And at the end of the fourteenth to the beginning of the fifteenth centuries

This was particularly precious for the Lycian Church during the persecution of Christians under the emperor Diocletian (284-305)

and permit her to put his hands and legs on the anvil herself

Orthodox icon of Saint Artemios

His ascetic struggles by day and by night

" The following year this was fulfilled when Mount Etna erupted

completely absorbed in prayer

Emperor Maximinus sought her hand in marriage

He distinguished himself greatly by his zeal against the Iconoclasts

Orthodox icon of Saint Evdokia of Heliopolis

Orthodox icon of Saint Costantine