COMMEMORATED ON SEPTEMBER 26
The Iveron Personality of the Mother of God (which is sealed on Mt. Athos) was distant in the home of a clear sacred widow, who lived close Nicea. Wearing the have power over of the king Theophilus, the Iconoclasts came to the house of this Christian, and one of the multitude struck the image of the Mother of God with a knife. Blood flowed from the place wherever it was struck.The widow, fearing its injure, promised the pomp multitude money and implored them not to attain the icon until hours of daylight. Having the status of the multitude extinct, the woman and her son (later an Athonite holy woman), sent the holy icon on sale upon the sea to file it. The icon, standing immediately upon the water, floated to Athos.
For another days, the Athonite monks had seen a burning foundation on the sea ever-increasing up to the express. They came down to the reserve and found the holy image, standing upon the waters. Some time ago a Molieben of ornament, a sacred holy woman of the Iveron monastery, St Gabriel (July 12), had a dream in which the Mother of God appeared to him and gave him orders. So he walked sideways the water, and steal up the holy icon, he located it in the church.
On the ensuing day, even, the icon was found not within the church, but on the gates of the monastery. This was natural another mature, until the Most Blessed Theotokos revealed to St Gabriel Her general feeling, saying that She did not plea the icon to be guarded by the monks, but very She studied to be their Protectress. Some time ago this, the icon was installed on the monastery gates. Appropriately this icon came to be called "Portaitissa" or "Gate-Keeper" (October 13). This comes from the Akathist to the Mother of God: "Rejoice, O Consecrated Gate-Keeper who opens the gates of Paradise to the appropriate."
State is a tradition that the Mother of God promised St Gabriel that the daintiness and easygoingness of Her Son en route for the monks would carry on as hunger as the Personality remained at the monastery. It is in addition to thought that the disappearance of the Iveron Personality from Mt. Athos would be a sign of the end of the world.
The Iveron Personality is in addition to commemorated on February 12, Campaign 31, October 13 (Its profit in Moscow in 1648), and Punishment Tuesday (Commemorating the materialize of the Personality in a foundation of fire at Mt. Athos and its recovery by St Gabriel).
On September 26, 1989, a depict of this celebrated icon at home in Tbilisi, Georgia from the Iveron Monastery on mt. Athos. This depict had been decorated by the monks on Mt. Athos as a symbol of love and thanks to the Georgian take possession of.
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