According to the Christian tradition, the sacred holy water named Zoodochos Pigi of Baloukli or Virgin Mary Baloukliotissa was discovered through two different versions. The first, from the emperor Leo the Great, who when he was still a simple soldier, met a blind man at the Golden Gate of Constantinople who asked him for water; searching he heard a voice that pointed to the point of the spring water. The blind man rubbed his eyes with the muddy water and was healed. Years later, as emperor, Leon heard the same voice asking him to build a church near the spring, and so he did. He dedicated it to the Virgin Mary and called it "Zoodochos Pigi (Life-giving Spring)".
In the second version, at the beginning of the sixth century Justinian built the church near the hunting ground, an area full of trees and springs. There, in a vision, he saw a small chapel, a priest and many people in front of a spring, so he built a monastery there, using the advanced materials of Agia Sofia. In the 14th century, Nikiphoros Kallistos cites a list of 64 miracles attributed to the spring. There are the tombs of the Ecumenical Patriarchs, the water is considered sanctified to this day and the miracle of Spring has spread throughout the Orthodox world.
MADONNA SOURCE OF LIFE
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