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[[Image:Geelong.jpg|thumb|right|Monastery of Panagia Gorgoepikoos - Geelong]]
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Telephone: (03) 5276 1221
P.O. Box 219, Corio, Vic 3214
==History of Panagia Gorgoepikoos Icon==
::''See Main Article: [[Panagia Gorgoepikoos]]''
The monastery takes its name from the icon of of Panagia Gorgoepikoos, which is commemmorated on the first of [[October1]]. This is one of the best known miraculous icons of the Holy Mountain, located at Docheiariou Monastery. In 1664, the monk Neilos, who used to pass regularly in front of the icon holding in his hand a lighted torch which he needed for his duties in the refectory, heard a voice telling him: “Do not come past here with a torch, leaving smoke on my icon”. Neilos did not pay much attention to the voice, but it was soon heard again. Then a punishment was given to the monk, and he became blind. The brethren began to show great reverence in passing before the icon and hung a perpetual lamp before it and burnt incense before the icon every day.
The blind Neilos spent all his time in front of the icon, imploring the Theotokos to forgive him and heal him, and his prayer was granted when, for the third time, a voice was heard from the icon. The Theotokos told Neilos that his supplication had been heard, and that it was to her protection, after God, and her overshadowing guardianship that the monks should thereafter have recourse for all their needs. She would hear them speedily, for her name is “Gorgoepikoos” (she who hears speedily). This miracle and the promise of the Theotokos became quickly known to the whole of Athos and her icon became an object of pilgrimage for all the Holy Mountain.
[[Image:Geelong.jpg|thumb|left|Monastery of Panagia Gorgoepikoos - Geelong]]
==Mother Kallistheni==
