On the right column in front of the icon screen of the new cathedral is the miraculous icon of St Georgios. According to the Monastery tradition, the icon had been thrown into a fire by the iconoclasts but was not damaged. Since it had managed in a miraculous way to remain unharmed, a soldier struck the icon with his sword, ‘wounding’ the jaw of the Saint, from which spot blood began to flow. This blood is still preserved today.
To protect it from the iconoclasts,, the faithful subsequently threw the icon into the sea; it later washed ashore at the beach of the (then) small monastery of St Dimitrios, to whom the Monastery had originally been dedicated. At the spot on the beach where the holy icon had rested, a spring of mineral water began to flow. This particular type of mineral water was known to cure dysuoria, resulting in the designation of the saint as ‘Dysuritis’. The fathers of the Monastery brought the icon to the Monastery, and dedicated the new cathedral to the memory of St Georgios.
