The Story of the Miraculous Icon of the Virgin Mary known as “Ktitorissa” at Vatopedi Monastery
About the year 910 AD an army of countless Arabs from Syria conquered Crete and Sicily and all the Greek Islands. Some of them came to the Monastery of Vatopedi, on the eastern coast of the Holy Mountain (Mt.Athos) to raid it. When the Caretaker of the holy Altar (Vimataris) saw them coming, he […]