The monks of Mount Athos did not leave behind their human audacity ... a thousand-year-old monastery long tormented by pirates and fires and repressive Ottomans, but now a victim of its own ...

It is located at the monastery of Iviron. Legend tells that the icon escaped iconoclasm during the reign of Theophilos (829-842) and traveled of its own power to Mount Athos where it arrived in a ...