ICON OF VIRGIN MOTHER OF SWEETS SILVER GOLD OVAL Wood 28.7*36.5

The icon of Glykofilousa was saved from the iconoclasm and was miraculously transported to Athos. It was the property of Victoria, the pious wife of the iconoclastic senator Symeon, who, in order not to give it up, threw it into the sea. The icon, floating upright on the waves, reached the arsana of the Monastery of Philotheos, where it was received with great honor and joy by the abbot and the fathers of the Monastery, who had been notified of the revelation of the Theotokos. At the point on the shore where they placed the icon, a holy water gushed forth.