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Orthodox icon of the Most Holy Theotokos "Portaitissa", "Keepr of the Door", Monastery of Iviron Mount Athos.

According to the orthodox tradition, the icon is painted by the Evangelist Luke. 

Orthodox icon of the Most Holy Theotokos "Portaitissa", "Keeper of the Door". Detail from the icon, Monastery of Iviron Mount Athos.

According to the orthodox tradition, the icon is painted by the Evangelist Luke.

Orthodox icon of our Most Holy and Ever- Virgin Theotokos "Portaitissa", "By the Doors" (3).

Contemporary icon.

Orthodox Icon of Theotokos "Portaitissa" or Panagia Portaitissa  in Silk screen.

This icon is made with the special technique of silkscreen on a canvas and by using real gold foil. During the Iconoclast period where the government tried to destroy icons a widow took an icon of the Mother of God and cast it into the sea to save it. One evening the monks of the Iveron Monastery on Mt. Athos beheld a pillar of light, shining upon the sea like the sun.  

This lasted for several days. It was miraculously retrieved by one of the monks who walked out on the water to retrieve it. It was set on the ground and a spring burst forth. They took the icon to the church but the next day they found it at the monastery gate. The monks returned it to the church and agin the next day they found it near the gate. Seeing the special nature of this icon they joyously built a chapel next to the gate of the monastery for the icon. 

The icon came to be known as the Portaitissa or the Iveron Theotokos. This miraculous Iveron Icon is know for its many miracles that have taken place and continue to take place throughout the world.

Orthodox icon of the Most Holy Theotokos "Prousiotissa".

Commemorated August 23rd.

The story goes back a thousand years to the time when the heresy against the holy icons, Iconoclasm, was raging all over the Christian world. The Byzantine Emperor Theophilos had ordered, all holy icons be removed from the churches and burned. The Orthodox people were protecting and hiding the holy icons. They put themselves at risk of exile and even death for those icons.

In the year 829 this Holy Icon of the Theotokos, which according to tradition was painted by the hand of St. Luke the Evangelist, was kept in a beautiful church in the renowned city of Proussa. Today the church still stands in the city named Brusa, which is in Turkey near Constantinople. Many miracles have taken place in this Church. As soon as the decree of the Emperor reached the city of Proussa, a godly man, the son of an officer of the royal court, decided to disobey the Emperor's order.

He took the Holy Icon and fled to the mainland of Greece, because the persecution was less violent there. The young man was on his way to the city of Callipolis, (today Gallipoli or Gelibolu.) On his way to the city he lost the Holy Icon. His sorrow was great. Alas, to me the wretched one , he wailed. The Lady Theotokos left me because of my sins. However, he wouldn't turn back.

He could not endure living amongst the enemies of the icons. He continued his journey and settled in the city of New Patre, near the northwest end of Peloponnesus. Time went by, and then one day he heard news about some miraculous events, which happened in an area of Aitola, Greece.

Orthodox icon of Theotokos "Soumela" or Panagia Soumela.

Celebrated August 15.

The type of this icon is Theotokos Hodegetria. According to tradition this Orthodox icon was painted by St Luke the Evangelist when the Theotokos was still alive and she was pleased with and blessed all the icons that he made. St Luke kept this icon with him all his life and when he died, his disciple Ananias, took the icon and transferred it to the Church of Acropolis in Athens which at that time became an orthodox Church and dedicated to Panagia.

The icon was venerated in Athens as "Panagia Athiniotissa". Three centuries after, the Theotokos appeared to two monks from a Monastery in Athens and told them to follow her icon whenever it will go. Theotokos with a miraculous way appeared to them many times and guided them where they had to go. At the end, she told them that they will find her icon on the Mount of Melas in Pontos of Asia Minor, today a region of Turkey.

The names of the two monks were Barnabas, and his disciple and nephew Sophronios. When they arrived in this place that Theotokos told them, they found the icon in a cave and there they built a monastery which they dedicated to Theotokos of the Mount of Melas. 

Orthodox icon of our Most Holy and Ever- Virgin Theotokos "Soumela" (2).

Contemporary icon.

Orthodox icon of our Most Holy and Ever-Virgin Theotokos "Tenderness" (2), made with the technique of the silkscreen on a canvas and with real gold foil.

Orthodox icon of The Most Holy Theotokos " Tenderness" in real gold foil. The icon have gold paint decorations on the halo and some other spots. This icon is like the hand painted icons. 

(Because of the material of the icon, there is a reflexion of the light that interfere in the quality of the photo)

The size of the icon is 6" X 8"

Orthodox icon of the Theotokos in gold plated, mounted on a special wood and with decoration of Crosses.

Size of the icon: 6" X 8"