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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

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