Virgin Mary Perpetual Help Tapestry Icon Wall Hanging Baby Jesus 14 Inch, Religious Room Wall Decoration Gift A SHORT HISTORY OF THE ICON: The Virgin of Incessant Help is perhaps the best known icon in the world, as it is widely known in Orthodox, Catholic and other traditional churches. This icon has different names in different groups of Christians. Known as Our Lady or Perpetual Help to Catholics. Known as the Virgin of Passion to Eastern Orthodox. Spanish and Filipino Catholics refer to this image as Scoorro. Our Lady of Perpetual Help Virgin of Passion Mother of God of Incessant Help A SHORT HISTORY OF THE ICON: The Virgin of Incessant Help is perhaps the best known icon in the world, as it is widely known in Orthodox, Catholic and other traditional churches. This icon has different names in different groups of Christians. Known as Our Lady or Perpetual Help to Catholics. Known as the Virgin of Passion to Eastern Orthodox. Spanish and Filipino Catholics refer to this image as Scoorro. The icon is a “hodegetria” (Greek for “pointing the way”) type icon originally attributed to St Luke the Evangelist. The icons is often referred to as “Passions” because in the icon the Christ Child questioning looks at one of the angels on either side of the Virgin Mary holding the instruments of “Passion:” the Cross, Lance and Sponge. The Virgin tenderly embrasses her Son. The original icon was venerated for centuries in Constantinople and it is uncertain if it was destroyed or stolen at the fall of Constantinople to the Turks. The icon was highly venerated in the East and in 1641 was received in a solemn procession to Moscow to the Church and Convent of St Anne (the Mother of the Virgin Mary). The icon showed its miraculous powers to many in Russia. The first miracle in Russia attributed to the icon was in Nizhni-Novgorod where a lady named Eudoxia was cured of palsy. A wealthy merchant in Crete owned a copy of that icon in the late 15th Century.