Silver Icon of Panagia Prodromitissa

Silver Icon of Panagia Prodromitissa

High-art silver icon, a faithful replica of a Byzantine Hagiography.
The metal part is covered with pure 999° silver and 24K gold plating, while the central depiction of the Panagia is crafted on canvas using the authentic Byzantine technique.

Dimensions: 43 × 32.5 cm

Product Features

• Material: 999° Silver & 24K gold plating

• Hagiography on canvas: Traditional Byzantine technique

• High-quality craftsmanship with a faithful rendition of the sacred form

• Luxurious details throughout the frame

• Suitable for churches, chapels, home shrines, and as a gift

The icon depicts the Panagia Prodromitissa, one of the most revered and historically significant Acheiropoietos icons of Mount Athos. The composition is characterized by exceptional detail, profound spirituality, and high aesthetic value, while the luxurious silver and gold plating highlights every delicate detail of the hagiography.

The icon of the Virgin Mary Prodromitissa (19th century), which is located in the Romanian skete of Timios Prodromos on Mount Athos, is considered to be an original icon. The skete is a coenobitic complex and belongs to the sovereign monastery of Megisti Lavra (963). Until 1854, the cell of Saint John the Forerunner was located there, inhabited by monks originating from Chios.

The Holy Monastery of Megisti Lavra allowed the conversion of the cell into a skete. By Patriarchal Sigilios in 1856 under Patriarch Kirill VII (1855-1860) the foundation and the congregational organization of the Skete was confirmed.

The information concerning the icon is provided by the hieromonk Gerasimos Smyrnakis (1862-1935)510. According to the hieromonk, the hagiographer Giorgakis Nikolaou began to paint, at the request of Hieromonk Niphon (1857-1870), the Virgin Mary the Infant. However, as he was about to complete the icon he saw that the faces of Christ and the Virgin Mary were distorted.

The hagiographer believed that he was not worthy to finish the icon. So he left the work with the intention of continuing it the next day. In the morning he said three penances and prayed so that he could finish his work. When he went to resume his work he was surprised to see the faces in the picture perfectly painted and shining.

For the Handmade Icon of the Virgin Mary, Sen. Smyrnakis (p. 423) mentions: In the Kyriakos found hanging on the left column to the east, the hand-painted icon of the Theotokos only in the form, the painter Giorgakis Nikolaou, a painter in Iasios, who toiled a lot and was unable to paint it according to the will of the then Dikaios of the skete Niphonos Hieromonachos (1857-1870) and according to his own art, produced it unmounted in a herm, so that the said Dikaios could receive it. But on a certain day, as the Hieromonk Niphon, who lived until December 1899, told us, when the painter took it from the chariot for possible completion, he found the form brilliant and beautiful, as it is shown today.

Then he issued a certificate in Jassia on June 29, 1863, declaring: “After I had passed the first and second hand over the garments and the face of the icon in my art, I saw the Virgin and Christ in the third hand, with the form of the third hand. For I was angry, and thought that, having mastered my art, I could not perfect the image. And because it was evening, I was contented to repeat the work the next day with zeal. And in the morning I did three penances to begin the work, and wonder of wonders! I praise the faces of the Mother of God and of Christ, exceedingly perfected.

Since then, the icon of the Virgin Mary represented in the type of Odigitria is called Panagia Prodromitissa the achiropoitos and is hung on the left eastern column of Kyriakos in front of the Temple.

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