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ICONS OF THE MOTHER OF GOD - THREE HANDS
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There are several monasteries on the holy penninsula of Mt. Athos in Greece. Legend has it that the Virgin took refuge on the Mt. Athos penninsula after Jesus' Crucifixion, and Mt. Athos thus came to be special for Mary.
Historically, many monasteries came to be built on Mt. Athos (and are still quite active as a center of Eastern Orthodox activity).
Unfortunately, Mt. Athos monasteries have been attacked at various times in history. In one such attack, one of the defenders of a particular monastery had his arm cut off in battle; (the defense was successful in this case).
Praying to the Virgin (of course surrouded by icons), his arm was miraculously restored. In gratitude, the man attached a metal arm horizontally to a particular icon; it rested on the bottom section of the painted icon. The practice of placing objects such as jewelry, flowers, and other objects on an icon has a long and current history.
So the "Three-handed" icon is actually a much older icon of Byzantine or pre-Byzantine origin upon which an object (the metal arm) was placed.
In some "Three-handed" icons that are full paintings (i.e., no metallic cover), the added arm is actually metal, thus closely following the history above.
On the other hand, when an icon has a metal cover, the portrayal of the added arm may be different. As you will see in the icon below, the hand section of the third arm is part of the painting which lies under the metal cover.
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In 726, the Byzantine emperor Leo III declared that it was a crime to revere religious icons; he was an iconoclast. A writer named John wrote a number of inflammatory articles against this new iconoclasty; John was a Christian living in Damascus and could use the relative safety of his bureaucratic position within the Arab world to publish his cant. However, much rancor from the Christian world reached the Caliph concerning this John, especially a letter forged in his hand in which the traitorous author laid out a plan for the transfer of Damascus to Christian rule. The Caliph had John jailed and severed his right hand. John prayed to an image of the virgin and went to sleep; when he awoke, his hand had been miraculously restored. As a token of his appreciation, he attached his cut-off hand to the icon, thus giving her three hands.
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