Historical icon
Iveron Icon of the Theotokos (Portaitissa)
A photograph of this icon has not been added yet.
- Dating
- By tradition 9th century; the surviving painting is dated to the 11th–12th centuries
- Origin
- Nicaea (by tradition); Mount Athos
- Author / school
- Unknown
- Location
- Iviron Monastery, Mount Athos (gate chapel)
- Iconographic type
- Hodegetria (“She who shows the Way”) — iconographic type
- Where it is
- Iviron Monastery, Mount Athos
About the icon
Tradition preserves the account of a wound on the face from an iconoclast's blow and of the icon's miraculous arrival at Athos by sea; the Moscow copy of 1648 began its veneration in Russia.
Feasts: Iveron Icon of the Theotokos (arrival in Moscow, 1648), Iveron Icon of the Theotokos, Bright Tuesday. Iveron Icon of the Theotokos
An icon is an image for prayer. The description explains theological meaning and prayer tradition; it does not promise an outcome.