Summary
The portable icon of the Virgin Mary of Paramythia by the Aenites provost Chatzi-Constantinos, work of the painter Constantinos from Koritsa (1741), from the Ecclesiastical Museum of Alexandroupolis
The article presents the icon of Virgin Mary of Paramythia, a copy of the miraculous icon of the Holy Monastery of Vatopedi on Mount Athos. The copy was commissioned by the provost Chatzi-Constantinos from Aenos (Enez) and it is now in the Ecclesiastical Museum of the Holy Metropolis of Alexandroupolis (Hall 6). It dates back to 1741 and it is a work of the well-known painter Constantine from Koritsa (Korçë), who together with his brother Athanasios worked in the southern Balkans in the 18th century. On the back of the icon there is a poem in iambic fifteen-syllable, where the history of the Virgin Mary of Paramythia, the pilgrimage of the Aenites provost to the Holy Monasteries of Mount Athos, his identity and his plea to the Virgin Mary to return quickly to Aenos are lyrically presented. At the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century, the Aenites descendants of Chatzi-Constantinos settled in Alexandroupolis, taking with them the valuable family heirloom, which eventually ended up in the Ecclesiastical Museum of Alexandroupolis.
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