According to tradition, the monastery in the village of Prousos in Evrytania was built on the spot miraculously chosen by the Blessed Virgin Mary.
House of Virgin Mary, the Lady of Roumeli
The historical monastic complex, which dates back to 829 AD, is 35 kilometers from Karpenisi. On the path that leads to the Monastery, there are the footprints of the Virgin Mary, seven shapes of different colors which, according to sacred tradition, are the traces left by the Virgin Mary on her way to Prousos on the vertical rock that exists at this point.
The holy icon of the Virgin Mary, created by the Evangelist Luke, fled in 829 AD, during the period of the Iconoclasm, to Bursa in Asia Minor in order to escape the burning of the Byzantine icons ordered by the Emperor Theophilos. The icon was taken to Greece by a young man named Dionysios, but for some unknown reason it was lost when the young man arrived in Thrace.
From Thrace the icon appeared in Evritania, making its presence felt in a shepherd with a luminous pillar that reached from the earth to the sky, on August 23 (day of the Assumption of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary). This is also the date on which the memory of the icon is celebrated in the monastery where it was transferred, as it was believed that this was the place chosen by Virgin Mary to "dwell".
Katholiko (1754), Agion Panton Chapel (1754), School of Literature (1820), Museum of ecclesiastical objects, Museum of Greek Literature of Roumeli and hostels
Σύμφωνα με το ιστορικό της Ιεράς Μονής, πολλά κτίρια της καταστράφηκαν επί Τουρκοκρατίας, ενώ στο πιο πρόσφατο παρελθόν, μελανή σελίδα αποτελεί η εισβολή των Γερμανών κατακτητών στο Μοναστήρι στις 16 Αυγούστου του 1944 και η ολοσχερής καταστροφή των κτιρίων.
The icon of Panagia Prousiotissa is considered miraculous and for this reason it attracts many believers from Greece and abroad, while the silver cover of the icon was donated by the leader of the Revolution of 1821, George Karaiskakis, to be cured of an illness from which he suffered during his stay in the monastery in the middle of the Revolution. In fact, the cell where the hero of 1821 lived still exists in the monastery.
Source [quote] Holy Monastery of Panagia Prousotissa Monasteries of Greece | monastiria.gr
