Handmade Wood Carved Icon with Panagia Glykofilousa

Handmade woodcarved icon, depicting Virgin Mary Glykofilousa. The icon is carved on boxwood at the Holy Skete of Saint Demetrios on Mount Athos. The rich detailed carving confirms that this icon is a real masterpiece, created with much patience and faith.Dimensions:H: ~ 7.5 cm.W: ~ 4.6 cm. The image was property of Victoria, the loyal wife of Simeon's iconoclastic senator. Victoria threw the icon into the see, in order not to surrender it. The image, standing upright in the waves, reached the port of the Monastery of Philotheou. At the point of the coast, where they laid the picture, it smelled like Holy Water. Μore about Theotokos Glykofilousa.

From Mount Athos. Ships from Greece within 5 business days, with US duties and taxes prepaid.