Panagia Gorgoepikoos

Miraculous Orthodox icon of Virgin Mary Gorgoepikoos on thick plywood 20mm, which does not sting and keeps its shape over time. Preparation with acrylic stucco and have been used acrylic colors. It has been covered with varnish to keep the colors undiluted in time and humidity. Hanging clip included on the back of the icon.  

Panagia Gorgoepikoos means ''She who is quick to hear''. In 1664, the trapezares Neilos, who used to pass regularly in front of the icon holding in his hand a lighted torch which he needed for his duties in the refectory, heard a voice telling him: “Do not come past here with a torch, leaving smoke on my icon”. Neilos did not pay much attention to the voice, but it was soon heard again, imposing a punishment on the monk and leaving him blind. The brothers began to show great reverence in passing before the icon and hung a perpetual lamp before it and ordered the new trapezares to burn incense before it every day. The blind Neilos spent all his time in a stall in front of the icon, imploring the Theotokos to forgive him and heal him, and his prayer was granted when, for the third time, a voice was heard from the icon which told Neilos that his supplication had been heard, and that it was to her protection, after God, and her overshadowing guardianship that the monks should thereafter have recourse for all their needs. She would hear them speedily, for her name is “Gorgoepikoos” (she who hears speedily). The icon is commemorated on October 1. The icon of Panagia Gorgoepikoos is very miraculous; it cures various diseases, gives children to childless couples, reveals lost objects, protects those in danger at sea, redeems those who are captured, cures headache and fatigue, heals the paralyzed, gives light to the blind, cures deadly diseases, chases away locusts from the fields and many other wonders.