Virgin Mary Pantanassa

This miraculous icon is a portable one from the 17th ^century and is located on the left altar of the northeastern column of the Catholicon of the Vatopedi Monastery. According to the accounts of contemporary Elders of the Monastery, the first sign that the icon has special grace is the following event; One day a young man entered the temple and as he was going to worship the icon, the face of the Virgin Mary suddenly shone and an invisible force threw him to the ground. As soon as he came to his senses, he confessed with tears to the fathers that he had been living far from God and was indulging in witchcraft. Thus, the miraculous intervention of the Virgin Mary convinced the young man to change his life and become a God-fearing man.

This icon also has the property and special grace from God to cure the terrible disease of cancer. Countless cases of cancer patients who have been cured in our days are known, after praying before the Virgin Mary Pantanassa.

Many miracles have also occurred in Moscow in recent years after a copy of the icon of Pantanassis was transferred there, especially regarding the healing of children who are hospitalized at the Children's Oncology Center in Moscow, where the copy of the miraculous icon is located.