Tradition surrounds the image with accounts of miraculous escapes from destruction during the iconoclasm, when the jaw of the saint's image was damaged by a soldier and bled. It then arrived miraculously at the beach of the Monastery, at the point where there is a spring of sacred water (known as the 'sour water'). The icon's characterization of the saint as Dysuritis is attributed to this spring of sacred water, which is considered to be a remedy for dysuria, albeit soundly reminiscent of the 'diasoritis' accompanying St Georgios in Naxos.
