Title
The Virgin of Iber (Bleeding Vrefokratousa). The icon was kept at the Gate of the Resurrection (today part of the Red Square) in Moscow. According to the tradition, the Virgin bleeds because she was stabbed in the cheek by an iconoclast.
Alternative Title
Virgin with the bleeding Cheek, as she is worshiped in the Sunday Gate at the Extremity of the Twerschaia, in Moscow.
Date
1810
Bibliographic Citation
CLARKE, Edward Daniel. Travels in various countries of Europe, Asia and Africa by Edward Daniel Clarke LL.D. Part the First. Russia Tatary and Turkey, London, Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1810.
Area/Place
Russia
Moscow
Subject
Religious practices
Collection
The Gennadius Library - The American School of Classical Studies at Athens