Virgin of the Sweet Kiss – Silk Screen Print on Naturally Aged Wood – Mount Athos

Description

A wonderful icon using the silk screen technique, depicting the Virgin of the Sweet Kiss on naturally aged wood from a restored Athonite cell.

The original image of the Virgin of the Sweet Kiss is one of those icons that was preserved during the iconoclasm and was miraculously transported to Mount Athos. It belonged to Victoria, the devout wife of the iconoclastic senator Simeon, who, in order not to surrender it, threw it into the sea. The icon, floating upright on the waves, reached the dock of the Monastery of Philotheou, where it was received with great honor and joy by the abbot and the monks, who had been alerted by a revelation from the Theotokos. At the spot on the shore where the icon was placed, holy water began to flow. Every year on Bright Monday, a procession and blessing take place at this site.

As the image is handmade and the wood treatment is done by hand, there may be slight variations in the wood, but not in the depiction.

The image is available upon order.

Dimensions: 26 x 35 x 2 cm

Origin: Mount Athos