Milk-Giver

Life

This is the name of the icon of the Most Holy Theotokos, which Saint Sava of Serbia brought from the monastery of Saint Sabas the Sanctified near Jerusalem, and placed in his cell at Karyes on the Holy Mountain. And thus was fulfilled the prophecy of Saint Sabas the Sanctified, spoken eight hundred years before, that a Serbian priest named Sava would come and to him should be given this icon and his staff. When Sava of Serbia visited the monastery of Saint Sabas the Sanctified, the monks remembered the prophecy of the founder of their community and gave to Sava of Serbia the icon and the staff. This icon was placed on the right side of the royal doors in the cell, and the staff in one cell called "Paterica," at Karyes.