Our Lady of Mount Philermos
The Our Lady of Mt Philermos (also Phileremos ) is an icon of Mary , probably around 1200 in the Byzantine painted room, and in the St. George's Chapel on Mount Philermos on Rhodes was worshiped. The miniatures around the icon show scenes from the history of the order. Since the Knights of the Order of St. John conquered the island of Rhodes in 1309 after being expelled from the Holy Land, they have been venerating the Rhodes icon as their miraculous image - between 1490 and 1522 in the religious house on Mount Philermos.
In 1523 the order was expelled from the island of Rhodes by the Ottomans and moved to Malta in 1530 . There they also transferred the icon as one of the sanctuaries of the order, which from now on called itself the Order of Malta. The icon was first placed in the Church of St. Laurentius in Birgu (until 1571), until 1798 in the Church of S. Maria of Victory in Valletta and in the Cathedral of San Giovanni.
When Napoleon conquered the island in 1798 and the order had to look for a new home again, the Russian Tsar Paul I was proclaimed Grand Master of the Order of Malta and the icon with other Maltese relics was transferred to Saint Petersburg in 1799 , where it remained until the October Revolution . In 1917 she was brought to Denmark ( Copenhagen , Villa Vidor) by tsarist officers of the mother of tsar Nicholas II , the widow empress Maria Feodorovna . From there it later came to the Montenegrin royal palace of Cetinje. Since the turmoil of the Second World War , it was considered lost.
The icon was rediscovered in 1996 in a monastery in Montenegro . It is now in the National Museum of Montenegro in the old capital Cetinje .
In 2000 the icon painter Makarius Tauc made a copy of the icon for the Order of Malta , which today hangs in the chapel of the Ehreshoven Order in Germany.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Malteser Papenburg - Maria von Philermos. Retrieved October 4, 2018 .
- ↑ Maltese Spiritual Center - History of the Maltese. Retrieved October 4, 2018 .