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Panagia Glykophilousa

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The '''Panagia Glykophilousa''' or "Sweet-kissing" [[icon]] depicts the [[Theotokos]] holding her [[Jesus Christ|son]] so that they appear to be kissing.
==History Glykophiloussa of the iconPhilotheo monastery (Athos)==:''Like the [[Panagia Portaitissa]] is one of the icons saved from the [[iconoclasm|Iconoclastic Controversy]] and brought miraculously to [[Mount Athos|Athos]]. It was the property of Victoria, the devout wife of the eikonomachos senator Symeon, who, in order to have to hand it over, threw it into the sea. The icon, floating upright on the waves, reached the arsanas of the [[Philotheou Monastery (Athos)|Monastery of Philotheou]], where it was received with great honour and rejoicing by the [[Abbot]] and fathers of the Monastery, who had been warned of its advent by a revelation of the Theotokos. At the point on the shore where they placed the icon, [[holy water]] gushed out. There each year on the Monday of the [[Bright Week|Diakainisimi Week]], there is a procession and blessing with holy water.''<ref>[http://www.mountathos.gr/active.aspx?mode=en{7a41e1a3-0425-4b51-80be-1131ca957e56}View Glykophilousa - Monastery of Philotheou]</ref> 
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