Zoögraphou Monastery, Mt. Athos

• ABOUT:
  • Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium, p. 2228.

  • Holy Monastery of Zographou. Greek government information page. --- Hellenic Ministry of Culture
  • Dimitrina Aslanian et al.: Le monastère bulgare de Zographe. --- Bulgaria-France Net

• IKONS:
  • Zoögraphou Ikon of the Theotokos: An ikon which survived the destruction of the monastery by the Catalans in mediæval times.
    • The "Akathist-Zographou" Ikon. --- St. John's Cathedral, DC
  • Zooögraphou Ikon of St. George: According to tradition, the founders of the monastery had difficulty agreeing on a name and patron saint for the community until an ikon of St. George miraculously painted itself. (Zoögraphos means "painter".) Later, some monks of Lydda in the Holy Land came to Athos fleeing the persecution of Hakim; they reported that an ikon of St. George in Lydda had gone blank on the very day of the miracle at Zoögraphou.

• THE MARTYRS OF ZOÖGRAPHOU: A group of XIII Century monks killed by imperial troops for resisting the government's policy of Uniatism.
  • Blackwell Dictionary of Eastern Christianity, p. 530.