Icon of Virgin Mary Trichirousa. Silver icon exact copy of Byzantine Art.
The metal part is plated with pure silver 999 and gold 24K, while the painted part is crafted on canvas, according to the traditional method of Byzantine hagiography.
Dimensions: 35,00 x 25,00 cm
The Virgin Mary Tricherousa belongs to the iconographic type of Hodegetria. It comes from the monastery of St. Sava of Jerusalem.
The miraculous icon of the Virgin Mary of Tricherousa was a family heirloom of Saint John of Damascus, who kept it with reverence in the chapel of his house. Saint John Damascene was the first advisor to Walid in the year 705-715, Caliph of Syria, on all necessary matters concerning the Christian population of that region. It was at that very time, when Leo III the Isaurian was Emperor of Constantinople, that Iconoclasm broke out. The veneration of holy icons was considered idolatry. Saint John Damascene became a fervent supporter of the Holy Icons and with his writings he appeased the iconoclasts.
The Emperor Leo III, in order to get rid of the presence of Saint John Damascene, slandered him to the Caliph Walid, accusing him of thinking of secretly occupying Damascus. The caliph ordered that St. John Damascene be immediately arrested and his right hand cut off in the Damascus square. The order was executed immediately. The Saint received his severed hand and all night long he begged the Virgin Mary on his knees to heal him in order to continue his hard struggle for Orthodoxy. As he was, he fell asleep for a while and then he saw in a vision the Virgin Mary through her Holy Icon telling him that from now on his hand would be healed. The Saint woke up and actually saw that his hand had been restored and was healthy. Out of joy, he took care to place a silver effigy of his hand under the left part of the Icon of the Virgin Mary.
From this incident, the icon of the Virgin Mary was named as Tricheroosa. After this miraculous event, Saint John Damascene decides to become a monk at the Lavra of Saint Sava the Sanctified in Palestine. With him was the Icon of the Virgin Mary of Tricherousa. In the year 1217 Saint Sava of Hilandarion, later named Simeon, passing by the Holy Monastery of Saint Sava the Consecrated, took with him the Icon of the Virgin Mary of Milk and the Icon of the Virgin Mary of Tricherousis and transferred them to the Holy Monastery of Hilandarion on Mount Athos, where the Holy Icon remained until the year 1347. Then the Serbian Kralis Drousan, who was leaving for his homeland, came to Mount Athos and took the Icon of the Tricherousa as a blessing.
The icon was hosted in the Holy Monastery of Studenice in Serbia. When at the beginning of the 15th century the Serbs were informed that they were in danger of being enslaved by the Turks, they immediately took the Holy Icon of the Virgin Mary of Tricherousa from the Serbian monastery and placed it on the back of a donkey, leaving the animal free to lead it wherever the Virgin Mary wished. And indeed, miraculously, this quiet animal crossed all of Serbia, the Greek region of Macedonia and came to Mount Athos, to the Holy Monastery of Hilandar, where the monks welcomed her with honours and litanies. This blessed donkey, according to the sacred tradition, as soon as the Icon was placed in the Sanctuary of the Monastery, it fell dead.
To this day, this Holy Icon of Our Lady of Tricherousa is considered the Abbess of the Holy Monastery of Hilandar and the Patroness of the Serbian Orthodox people.
This Icon causes great awe and emotion to those who worship it.
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