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title: "Iveron Icon of the Theotokos (Portaitissa) — Icons"
description: "Tradition preserves the account of a wound on the face from an iconoclast's blow and of the icon's miraculous arrival at Athos by sea; the Moscow copy of 1648…"
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Historical icon

# Iveron Icon of the Theotokos (Portaitissa)

A photograph of this icon has not been added yet.

Dating

By tradition 9th century; the surviving painting is dated to the 11th–12th centuries

Origin

Nicaea (by tradition); Mount Athos

Author / school

Unknown

Location

Iviron Monastery, Mount Athos (gate chapel)

Iconographic type

[Hodegetria (“She who shows the Way”) — iconographic type](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/icons/type-hodegetria)

Where it is

[Iviron Monastery, Mount Athos](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/places/iviron)

## About the icon

Tradition preserves the account of a wound on the face from an iconoclast's blow and of the icon's miraculous arrival at Athos by sea; the Moscow copy of 1648 began its veneration in Russia.

Feasts: Iveron Icon of the Theotokos (arrival in Moscow, 1648), Iveron Icon of the Theotokos, Bright Tuesday. Iveron Icon of the Theotokos

An icon is an image for prayer. The description explains theological meaning and prayer tradition; it does not promise an outcome.