Theotokos Pelagiotissa (of The Sea) icon Mounted on wood Sizes:4 X 6

Theotokos Pelagiotissa (of The Sea) icon Mounted on wood Sizes:4 X 6Orthodox icon of Theotokos "of The Sea", "Pelagonitissa", copy of an icon of early 15th cent. This exquisitely painted icon, surely made for intimate devotion, displays the iconographic type known as the Pelagonitissa, after Pelagonia in medieval Serbia. The "Pelogonitissa" shows Virgin Mary gazing pensively over the head of the bare legged Child who rises in a serpentine twist, His unhealed head bent back against her mouth and His left hand on her

But Theotokos

He is especially called "Trinitarian Theologian

at Chalcedon

the righteous one's wife and parents tearfully venerated his holy relics

Commemorated January 25

whom the Lord called the greatest of the prophets

the nun remained silent and told no one of her vision

at the very extremity of Athos

Since that time the icon has been considered the protector of the Holy Mountain and its holiest icon

went along the coast of the Black Sea

In place of rings

and there will be a great city here