HANDMADE CARVED AROMATIC ICON BLESSED FROM MOUNT ATHOS OF VIRGIN MARY GALAKTOTROFOUSSA WIDTH: 12 CM OR 4.7 IN LENGTH: 15 CM OR 5.9 IN Description: This is a handcrafted icon of Virgin Mary the Galaktotrofoussa made solely from three 100% natural ingredients. Pure bees wax and incense from Mount Athos and mastic from Chios Island. It is carved by hand and emits a distinct aroma of its ingredients, which takes you to a monastic atmosphere. This should only to be placed away from sunlight and extreme heat over 50 oC
HANDMADE CARVED AROMATIC ICON BLESSED FROM MOUNT ATHOS OF VIRGIN MARY GALAKTOTROFOUSSA
WIDTH: 12 CM OR 4.7 IN LENGTH: 15 CM OR 5.9 IN
This is a handcrafted icon of Virgin Mary the Galaktotrofoussa made solely from three 100% natural ingredients. Pure bees wax and incense from Mount Athos and mastic from Chios Island. It is carved by hand and emits a distinct aroma of its ingredients, which takes you to a monastic atmosphere. This should only to be placed away from sunlight and extreme heat over 50 oC
The Galaktotrophoussa is one of rare icons. This icon originally stayed in the monastery of St. Sabbas the Sanctified consecrated in Jerusalem. Together with his staff it was bequeathed to the future Sava of Serbia, the royal son who would come to the monastery as a simple pilgrim. It was expected that at the moment of his paying respect to the tomb of Sabbas of Jerusalem the tied up Episcopal staff would fall down. The prophecy came true when the Serbian monk arrived to the monastery in the 13th century. Sava was presented with the Episcopal staff of Sabbas of Jerusalem, the icon of the Virgin Tricherousa (formerly belonging to John Damascene), and the icon of the Galaktotrophousa. Upon his return to Mount Athos, Sava displayed the icon of the Galaktotrophousa in the kellion in Karyes. On that occasion, a precedent in Orthodoxy occurred; the icon was placed to the right of the Royal Doors, in the place reserved for the icon of Christ.
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