Icon of Virgin Mary of Jerusalem
Silver icon with enamel colours, exact copy of Byzantine Art.
The Handmade Holy Icon of the Virgin Mary of Jerusalem is located in the Holy Pilgrimage of the All-Sept Theomitic Monument in Gethsemane.
The miraculous Holy Icon of the Virgin Mary “IEROSOLYMITISSA”, has been hagiographed in the 19th century in a miraculous way. It is dated 1870 and has the following history:
There was at that time a hagiographer nun named Tatiana, of the Russian Holy Monastery of St. Mary Magdalene the Myrrh-bearer, located at the foot of the Mount of Olives opposite Jerusalem.
And Tatiana, as she slept, saw the following Vision: She saw that she was visited in her cell by an unknown nun, who said to her: “Sister Tatiana, I have come for you to paint me”.Tatiana replied, “Bless you, Sister, but I am a hagiographer, not a painter.” And the Visitor says to her: “Then paint me”.Tatiana was surprised at the stranger’s courage and replied, “I have no wood (board), where can I paint you?”
And then the Visiting Nun gives her a painting board and says: “Paint!” But while Tatiana was painting the Monk, she saw Her nails becoming golden, Her face shining brightly, and she heard Her say: “O macabre Tatiana, after the Apostle and Evangelist Luke, thou wilt paint me again.”
Tatiana realized that she was painting the Virgin Mary! He was disturbed and woke up. He immediately rushed to the Mother Superior and told her about the Vision. The Mother Superior was disbelieving and told her to go to sleep and tomorrow to paint an icon of the Virgin Mary.
But as she was returning, she saw light coming out of her cell and felt a fragrance! Then he warned the Mother Superior and together they entered the bright and fragrant cell, where they saw a most amazing Miracle. The Vision Image was in the cell, real, Handmade! This Holy Icon of the Virgin Mary!
After all this, the Virgin Mary appears again to the Nun and says: “Lower me down to my house in Gethsemane.” Which it did.
Since then, the handmade Holy Icon of the Virgin Mary “IEROSOLYMITISSA”, is located in the Holy Sanctuary of the Theotokos Monument of Gethsemane, and it is miraculous.
All three times that the Holy Temple in Gethsemane was flooded, the Icon rose alone from its marble throne and stood in the ventilation system, without resting anywhere! Her miracles are innumerable, wherever She went.
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