Fig. 80. ‘Our Lady Paramythia’. Wall-painting from the chapel of this dedication in the katholikon, removed from the wall.
Georgios Mantzaridis
There are many miraculous icons and
innumerable holy relics on the Holy Mountain; the greatest number of
miraculous icons being those of Our Lady, the All-Holy Mother of God. In
the Church of the Protaton one may see the icon called Axion estin; at
the Monastery of Iveron, the Portaitissa; at the Monastery of
Docheiariou, the Gorgoipekoos; at the Monastery of Chilandari, the
Tricherousa; and there are others in other monasteries. But the greatest
number of the miraculous icons of the Virgin is kept in the Holy
Monastery of Vatopaidi: a) Our Lady Vematarissa or Ktitorissa, b) Our
Lady Paramythia, c) Our Lady Esphagmeni, d) Our Lady Antiphonetria, e)
Our Lady Eleovrytissa, f) Our Lady Pyrovoletheisa, and g) Our Lady
Pantanassa.
