Large colorful icon depicting the Mother of God among angels and seraphims, commemorating the event in 911 A.D. when the Saracens threatened the city of Constantinople and the people fled to the Church of the Vlakhernae to implore heavenly intervention. The icon combines two subjects: the vision of the Holy Fool Andrey, who saw the Mother of God appear on a cloud over the Church holding a veil of protection over the people, also depicting Romanos the Methodist, who could not sing well until the Mother of God appeared to him in a dream, giving him a scroll to eat which bestowed on him the gift of song, two splines intact on reverse, 19th century; 21"H 18"W

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