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[[image:Panagia_Paramythea.jpg|thumb|right|Icon of Panagia Paramythia, Monastery of Vatopaidi, Mount Athos (Greece). The same icon, [http://www.johnsanidopoulos.com/2010/06/panagia-paramythea-without-silver.html without the silver covering.]]]'''Panagia Paramythia''', the ''Vatopedi Mother of Consolation'', or ''Comfort'' is an 8th century miraculous [[icon]] of the '''Virgin Mary''' from the holy and great Monastery of [[Vatopedi Monastery (Athos)|Vatopedi]], [[Mount Athos]], Greece. The icon is commemorated [[January 21]].
The tradition tells us that on the icon, the original expression on the faces of the figures and the position of the bodies of Christ and the Blessed Virgin changed when the following strange miracle occurred, [[January 21]], 807:
This last arrangement of the figures has remained permanently on the icon and has, thus, and has also earned it the rare iconographer's title of "Achaeropito". The [[monk]]s, miraculously saved from the pirates, gave thanks to the Theotokos and named the icon '''"Paramythia"''', which means "calming down" or "restrain," words which equally convey the content of the miracle.
The icon is a wall-painting and is on the right choir of the chapel named after it. <ref>[http://www.mountathos.gr/active.aspx?mode=en%7B1cd9d117-cfde-4050-948a-df212f28fdb2%7DView Paramythia - Monastery of Vatopedi]</ref> In memory of this miraculous event a perpetual lamp burns in front of the wonderworking icon. Every day a Canon of Supplication is chanted in honour of the icon and on Fridays the Divine Liturgy is celebrated.
==Churches dedicated to Paramythia==
* [[Church]] of the Theotokos Paramythia, «Palace of the Wallachians, Vlach Saray» (Constantinople). This was the location of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of [[Constantinople]] from 1587 to 1597. * [[Chapel ]] of Panagia Paramythia, the Monastic Brotherhood of [http://home.columbus.rr.com/sttheodore/ St Theodore the Studite House] 449 Portland Way South, Galion OH (USA) - wwwBrotherhood discontinued on [[October 31]], 2012.sttheodore[http://sttheodoremonks.oh.goarch.org/house.htm]
==Monasteries dedicated to Paramythia==
* The Holy Monastery of Vatopaidi, Mount Athos (Greece) - location of original.*The Holy Monastery of Panagia Paramythea, and church, in the [http://www.paramythia-online.gr/imp_en.htm/ city of Paramythia](Greece). This monastery had a cupola which protects the cross, and is covered by ceramic ornaments ... It was built in 14th century ... The church was built to honor the memory of Panagia. Paramythia took its name from the temple (which in ancient Greek means comforter).*The Holy Monastery of Eliakon, Cyprus - Icon has weeped myrrh.
==Location of other copies==
* Kykko Monastery, Cyprus - On 1st Feb 1997, this copy was witnessed to have tears flowing down both her and Christ's eyes by a novice monk ... read more, [http://www.uni-heidelberg.de/subject/hd/fak7/hist/o1/logs/byzans-l/log.started961101/0166.html/ Here]
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