Jan 21
The original of this icon, celebrated on 21 January, takes its name from the ancient Vatopedi Monastery on Mt. Athos. On the Holy Mountain it is also known as The Comforter. “Vatopedi” means “Boy’s Bush”; the young Byzantine Crown Prince Arkadios fell off a ship in the Aegean Sea, and miraculously was found safe ashore, under a bush near the church in which the icon was housed. His father, Emperor Theodosius the Great, in gratitude richly endowed the monastery. On the icon, the Theotokos glances to her left; tradition says that in 807 she looked leftward to the Abbot to warn him of an impending robbery, enabling him to prevent it. — 8″ x 10″
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