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:''This article is about the historic monastery. For the [[feast day]] see [[Life-Giving Spring]].''
The '''Church of the Life-Giving Font of the Theotokos''' is the latest church, built in 1835, that bears the same dedication as the shrine erected in this place between the end of the fifth and beginning of the sixth centuries, named for the [[w:Thaumaturgy|wonderworking]] [[w:Holy well|holy spring]] located there. Holy Emperor [[Leo I (emperor)|Leo I the GreatThracian]] (457-474) oversaw the building of the church that was named in the honor honour of the Most Holy [[Theotokos]]. For almost fifteen hundred years, this sanctuary has been one of the most important [[pilgrimage]] sites of Greek Orthodoxy.<ref name="JANIN">Raymond Janin (in French). ''La Géographie ecclésiastique de l'Empire byzantin. 1. Part: Le Siège de Constantinople et le Patriarcat Oecuménique. 3rd Vol.: Les Églises et les Monastères.'' Paris: Institut Français d'Etudes Byzantines. 1953. p.232-37.</ref>
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