Until 1982, this miracle-working icon of St. George was kept in the cell of the same name in Kapsala, which belongs to the Pantokratoros Monastery. Due to the abandonment of the cell, the icon was transferred to the monastery itself. Today, it is situated in the iconostasis of the Dormition of Theotokos chapel, northwest of the main temple. The icon is called Saint George the Revealed, as it is closely associated with a miracle that occurred in the 18th century.
One evening, robbers knocked on the door of the cell of Saint George in Kapsala. They were welcomed by a remarkably handsome young man who led them to the arkhondarik (the guest room), as the elders were already resting. The young man then disappeared, and the thieves remained standing still, as if bound by invisible ties. They couldn't move till the morning, when the monks of the cell found them, quite surprised by such uninvited guests. The miraculous event led the thieves to repent and ask for forgiveness. When, along with the monks, they entered the church and saw the icon of Saint George, they immediately recognized in his face the handsome young man who had greeted them in the evening. After all that happened, they lived the lives of devout Christians. According to another interpretation, they also became monks in the cell of Saint George.
Saint George is depicted from the waist up, dressed in military attire, according to the established iconography type. The silver setting of the icon was created in Russia in the 19th century.
Previously, the icon of Saint George was dated to the third quarter of the 16th century. However, recent research by Serbian scholars dates this icon to the years 1520-1530, along with the icons of Christ and the Mother of God Hodegetria, adorning the iconostasis of the chapel of Saint George "The Revealed One". The icon belongs to the brush of the same unknown artist who frescoed the chapel of Saint John the Baptist (1525).
