The miraculous icon is associated with numerous narratives and references about its interventions to protect and care for the brotherhood, both in the recent and older history of the Monastery. The body of oral tradition relating to the icon was recorded in the book, An Authoritative Overview of Mt Athos, published in Konstantinople in 1861, which explains this unusual epithet of the Virgin. A contemporary edition of the work states, ‘This sacred icon earlier...
