The Miraculous Icon of the Virgin Ledda or Rome

The image of the Virgin of the Monastery of Neamt, is also known as Lidianca (from Ledda) or Romana (from Rome) names associated with the places where the image passed.According to tradition, it is a copy of an icon of the Virgin Mary which appeared alone (handmade) on a pillar of a church in Ledda (place of martyrdom of St. George).
This happened when the Holy Apostles preached Christianity in those places.
In 665, St. Germanos, later patriarch of Constantinople, saw the image of the Virgin Mary on the pillar and asked to have a copy painted on wood. On the back, he asked to have the Greatmartyr St. George to be painted.

He brought the icon to Constantinople and when the iconoclasts expelled him from the throne he took it with him.

Towards the end of his earthly life, about 733, he sent this image to Rome and hid in a part of the image a letter addressed to Pope Gregory III, in which he described the persecution of those who worshiped his images and his iconoclastic policy. It is noted that the icon arrived miraculously in Rome. The pope read the letter and placed the icon in the sanctuary of St. Peter's Basilica.
When Michael III was emperor in Byzantium together with his mother St. Theodora Augustus who restored the icons and allowed their worship and in Rome Pope Sergius II the icon of the Virgin Mary began to move "mainly in the orthodox and the vespers, sometimes during the Divine Liturgy ".
Once it began to hover over the heads of the people as if held by the hands of angels and slowly came out of the church, while the next day it was found in Constantinople. St. Theodora placed it in the Temple of the Bronze Age.
Thanks to this miracle, the Byzantines began to honor this icon, which they now called Rome on September 8.

The icon remained in Constantinople until the 15th century, because on March 31, 1401, Emperor John VII Palaiologos sent it as a gift to the ruler Alexander the Great, thus sealing the reconciliation of the Patriarchate of Constantinople with Moldavia, which had entered into relations with. The icon was originally placed in Mirauchi, Suceava, and a little later, the son of Alexander the Great, Stephen II donated it to the Neamts Monastery.
Although the icon went through many adventures, at some point it was even buried to protect it from the Turks,the image is kept in very good condition.

She has also been given the name "Pilgrim" because she has often left the hands of high priests or priests who held her and began to hover in the air. So she got the name because then the people humbly knelt to worship her. It is celebrated on June 26.