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St. Nicholas Monastery (Andros, Greece)

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The '''Monastery of St. Nicholas''' in [[Metropolis of Syros, Tinos, Andros, Kea, and Milos‎|Andros]] is, according to tradition, built in the 8th-century though it is not mentioned in any historical books until the 14th-century. This monastery has an elaborate architectural structure, including a bell tower and complex arches completed during the recent restoration of the monastery in 1760. The monastery houses wonderful frescos and an architecturly superb wooden screen. The Byzantine icon of [[Panagia Blachernitissa|Panagia Blachernae]], donated in the 15th-century by the Monastery in Constantinople of the same name, is still kept in this monastery and is myrrh-bearing; she is , known in Greece as the '''Panagia of Andros'''; a miraculous myrrh-bearing and scented icon of the '''Virgin of the Root of Jesse''.
==The icons in St. Nicholas==
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