Icon of Panagia Prodromitissa.
Silver icon exact copy of Byzantine Art. The metal part is coated with 999 sterling silver and 24K gold, while the hagiographed part is painted on canvas, according to the traditional method of Byzantine hagiography.
Dimensions: 43.00 x 32.50 cm
The icon of Panagia Prodromitissa (19th century) is located in the Romanian hermitage of Timios Prodromos on Mount Athos. The hermitage has the form of a coenobitic complex and belongs to the dominant monastery of the Great Lavra (963). Until 1854 in its place was the cell of Timios Prodromos with monks from Chios.
The Holy Monastery of the Great Lavra allowed the conversion of the cell into a hermitage. With a patriarchal sigil in 1856 under Patriarch Cyril VII (1855-1860) the foundation and the coenobitic organization of the Skete was ratified.
The information concerning the hand-painted icon is delivered by the monk Gerasimos Smyrnakis (1862-1935) 510. According to the hieromonk, the hagiographer Giorgakis Nikolaou began to paint, after the wish of the hieromonk Niphon (1857-1870), the Virgin holding the baby. However, as he was about to complete the painting of the icon, he saw that the faces of Christ and the Virgin Mary were altered.
The hagiographer believed that he was not worthy to finish the painting. So he left the job in order to continue it the next day. In the morning he made three penances and prayed that he might finish his work. When he went to continue his work he was surprised to see the faces in the picture perfectly painted and shining.
For the Handmade Icon of the Virgin Mary, Ger. Smyrnakis (p. 423) states: On Sunday it is found hanging on the east left column of hand-painted images of Theomitoros only in the form, which the painter in Iasi Giorgakis Nikolaou in the name of many then toiled to of the hermitage Niphon of Hieromonk (1857-1870) and according to his own art he neglected in the closet, which was received by the said Righteous. One day, however, as narrated until December 1899, the living Hieromonk Nephon, received this said painter from the closet to a possible finish, found it brilliantly and beautifully the form, as it is shown today.
Then, on June 29, 1863, he issued a certificate in Iasi, declaring: form. Out of anger, I thought that by manipulating my art I could not perfect the image. And because it was evening, I lay down, the next day after boiling I repeat the work. And in the morning you sang three penances to start the work, oh the miracle! The faces of the Mother of God and Christ are superficially executed.
Since then, the icon of the Virgin Mary depicted in the Hodegetria type has been called the handmade Panagia Prodromitissa and is hung in the left eastern column of Kyriakos in front of the Temple.
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