Description

During the Synaxaric tradition, the Holy Evangelist painted the life image of the Most Holy Mother of God and she accepted it with great joy and blessed it, saying: “The grace of him who was born of me, to be always with it “.

This Icon, saved in Palestine, was sent to Constantinople, during the reign of Theodosius II the Younger, by Empress Evdokia, as a gift to Theodosius’s sister Agia Poulcheria and was deposited in the Monastery of the Guides, of which she was the founder.

The Icon performed innumerable miracles (such as the rescue of Constantinople in 717 AD, by the Arabs) and was finally destroyed by the Ottomans during the Fall of 1453 AD.