Handmade embroidered icon of Virgin Mary Glykofilousa, on natural wood from Mount Athos. The theme of the icon is depicted with clarity and bright colors, made of gold thread. The embroidery is framed by metal elements, in an aged antique style, with elaborate Byzantine designs. At the bottom there is a metal inscription with Agion Oros, in Greek.
Dimensions: 24 x 43 cm.
The image was property of Victoria, the loyal wife of Simeon's iconoclastic senator. Victoria threw the icon into the see, in order not to surrender it. The image, standing upright in the waves, reached the port of the Monastery of Philotheou. At the point of the coast, where they laid the picture, it smelled like Holy Water. Μore about Theotokos Glykofilousa.
