Panagia Portaitissa

Panagia Portaitissa, meaning Our Lady of the Gate, is an Eastern Orthodox icon of the Virgin Mary kept at the Iviron monastery on Mount Athos in Greece, a monastery historically associated with Georgian monks. Tradition holds the icon has been at Iviron since the year 999 and traditionally attributes its original painting to Saint Luke the Evangelist, though its surviving form dates from later restoration and repainting. Believed by the faithful to have miraculously protected the monastery and to grant healing to those who venerate it, the icon is kept not in the monastery main church but in a chapel beside its gate, from which it takes its name, and it is honored as one of the most revered icons of Mount Athos. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/