Tbilisi, December 8, 2015
A copy of the Iveron Icon of the Mother
of God was painted in Georgia earlier in 2015. Together with its keepers, film
director Zurab Shioshvili and musician Giorgy Cholokava, the icon visited the
Holy Land and Holy Mount Athos. Such speedy and wonderful miracles began to
occur from it that the icon has already been given the names of “Quick to
Hearken” and “Queen.”
Thus, a miracle occurred in the
Monastery of the Mount of Temptations in the Judean Desert, north-west of
Jericho, at the site where the devil tempted our Lord Jesus Christ: a strong
warmth began emanating from the icon and the stone on which the Savior used to
pray became warm as well, reported the Georgian media.
When keeper of the icon, Zurab Shioshvili,
returning to his motherland, showed the icon to the primate of the Georgian
Orthodox Church and related all the events that had occurred with it,
Catholicos-Patriarch Ilia II called the icon “the Queen Who Brings Joy.”
Today
copies of this holy icon are spreading all over the world.
The hands of the Heavenly Queen on the
icon are always warm, and
sometimes, when someone fervently prays near the icon, the hands become even
warmer. People notice this when they bend to kiss the hands with reverence, the
Georgian media reports.
A special Facebook page has been created
which tells the news, relates the miracles, and informs about the places that
are to be visited by the great icon.
This is an extraordinary phenomenon,
that an icon should permanently have warm hands, as if belonging to a living
person. Numerous miracles have been reported by people who prayed to the
Theotokos for a happy family life or success in their jobs.
By Tamara Manelashvili
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