
New Icon - Panagia Eleftherotria (Mary the Liberator)
When Mary sings My soul doth magnify the Lord (the Magnificat) she intuits the God she praises to act in and for the poor and oppressed. This way Mary is prophetically linked to social justice and liberation. The Panagia Eleftherotria inspired Yorgos Papadopoulos to create a New Icon depicting the virgin as both a liberated woman and a liberator.