This is the original Icon Mother of God Skoroposlushnitsa or Quick to Hearken.

The image of the icon is made using a high-quality polygraphic machine, pasted on a wooden base. The icons are produced at a Monastery by an official icon maker of the Russian Orthodox Church in the village of Sofrino, Russia. Consecrated.

Size: height - 5”

width - 4”

Russia has always enjoyed a great love and reverence lists the miraculous icons of Athos "Quick to Hearken." Many of them became famous for miracles. Especially there have been cases of healing from epilepsy and possession.

Icon of Mother of God referred to as "Quick to Hearken" ancient miraculous image, located on Mount Athos, the monastery Dohiar. Monastic tradition refers to the time of its writing, the tenth century, by the time the abbot of the monastery of Saint life Neophyte. In 1664, Neil trapeze, walking at night in the dining hall with a lighted torch, I heard from the image of the Virgin hanging over the door, a voice calling his future is not going to smoke and not an icon. The monk thought it was a joke of a brother, ignored the sign and continued to go to the refectory with smoky torches. Suddenly he became blind. In bitter repentance he prayed before the icon of the Nile Mother of God, pleading for forgiveness. And again I heard a lovely voice that tells about forgiveness and return to view, and ordered to proclaim all the brethren: "From this time may be cited as Sia icon My Skoroposlushnitsa, because soon all flowing to it, I will show mercy petitions and execution." Our Lady sang and now fulfills His promise - is first aid and comfort to all those with faith to her affluent.