ΧΑΡΤΗΣ ΥΠΕΡΑΓΙΑΣ ΘΕΟΤΟΚΟΥ

The Finding of the Holy Icon of Panagia Eleousa (Our Lady of Mercy) in Xyniada, Domokos

Athanasios Nikolaou Syros, then eight years old, was playing on the mountainside with other children on a Friday afternoon when he saw before him a barefoot woman dressed in black making prostrations. And although the ground at that spot was dry, with the prostrations that this unknown woman in black made, it became soft and sank like dough. At the three spots where this unknown woman ven