Virgin Mary Portaitissa Icon – Handmade on Gold Silk Canvas, Stunning Detail Oil Lamp and family rooms)

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Whether you are making a personal pilgrimage to a miraculous monastery shrine

Incense Weight: 15 Grams (Aromatic Mount Athos Resin)

or looking for a traditional religious token to hang within your household icon corner (eikonostasi)

Virgin Mary Portaitissa Icon – Handmade on Gold Silk Canvas, Stunning Detail Oil Lamp and family rooms)The Panagia Portaitissa (Our Lady of the Gatekeeper) of Iviron History and Tradition The miraculous icon of the Theotokos is housed in the Monastery of Iviron on Mount Athos. According to tradition, during the 9th century (the time of the Iconoclasm), a pious widow in Nicaea (Asia Minor) cast the icon into the sea to protect it from destruction. The icon miraculously traveled upright over the waves and eventually arrived at the shores of Mount Athos,