Elder Paisios:Easter Monday and Icon of the Virgin "Axion Estin"

Elder Paisios told: "On Easter Monday I was sitting at Archontariki and say the prayer. Suddenly I felt a smell, another thing! I went in the hallway to see where it comes from, I went to church, nothing. I went outside in the yard. The aroma was much more pronounced. Heard the talent to beat. I looked and saw it descends down the litany, and I knew from the icon of the Virgin. " 

On this date the procession of the miraculous icon of "Axion Estin". Descends below the Koutloumousi as the cells of the Apostles (Alypiou). The cell of "Panagouda" is one kilometer. From this distance the Virgin sent a greeting to some extent in the Elder. 


Life Paisios of Mount Elder, Hieromonk Isaac, Mount Athos, 2004, pp. 288