The Icon of the Theotokos Yparchousa was painted in 1995, after the Most Holy Theotokos appeared to a little Muslim girl in Jerusalem. Her sorrowful face, her black clothes and her tears are a sign of the sorrows of this life, while the name of the Icon is intended as a reminder that she truly is the Mother of God.
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The devil calls her a sook, because she cries for our Salvation.
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