The icon became famous during the time of iconoclasm. It belonged to the pious woman Victoria, the wife of a certain Simeon Patricius. Victoria, with danger to her life, honored and kept it in her room. The husband demanded that she burn the icon, but Victoria preferred to put it into the sea better - and let it go. The icon appeared on the shore in front of the Athos Filofeevsky Monastery. The abbot and the brethren brought it into the cathedral church.
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