"She who is quick to hear" is the translation of the Greek work "Gorgoepikoos".
The original Icon of "Panagia Gorgoepikoos" is in the Holy Monastery of Docheiariou on the Holy Mountain.
The Icon was in the Trapeza (refectory) of the monastery. In 1664, the monk Neilos worked in the trapeza and would often pass by the Icon with a large lighted torch. One day he heard a voice coming from the Icon telling him not to pass by with his torch and leave smoke on her Icon, but he ignored it. He heard the voice again and ignored it, and as a correction, was struck blind. When the monks heard of this, they lit a lamp before the Icon which up to then had no lamp, and began incensing it daily since, being in the refectory, it was not usually incensed. The blind monk Neilos prayed for forgiveness in front of the Icon, when for a third time a voice was heard from it saying that after God, the monks should have recourse to her protection for she was "Gorgoepikoos" ("she who is quick to hear"), and with that Neilos' sight was restored.
I love this icon, as she is gesturing toward Christ.
This is a "Hodegetria" Icon. "Hodegetria" means "She who shows the way". In all Hodegetria Icons, the Theotokos points to Christ showing Him who is the Way.
