Zoodohos Pigi or Panagia Baloukliotissa. 2 ′
History is Sacred. Back to the years of Byzantium. In Baloukli.
With the name Life-giving Source of Balukli or Virgin Baloukliotissa is said to be a sacred Christian agiasma located in Constantinople outside the western gate of Silivria, where there were the so-called "palaces of the springs" in which the Byzantine Emperors rested in the Spring.
It takes its name from the Turkish name Balık (= fish) and includes the monastery, the church and the holy water.
There are two versions for the revelation of Agiasma:
a) The first, narrated by Nikiforos Kallistos, states that: The later Emperor Leo the Thracian or Leo the Great (457 - 474 AD), when he came as an ordinary soldier to Constantinople, met at the Golden Gate a blind man who asked him water. Searching for water, a voice pointed to the source.
The blind man drank and the muddy water in his eyes healed. When he later became Emperor, the prophetic voice told him that he should build a Church next to the fountain.
Indeed, Leon built a majestic church in honor of the Virgin Mary in that area, which he named "Source". Callistus describes this great Church in great detail, although the description best fits the edifice of Justinian.
Historically, however, it is proven that in 536 AD. in the Synod of Constantinople, under Patriarch Minas 536 - 552 AD), Zeno also takes part, abbot "of the House of the Holy glorious Virgin and Virgin Mary in the Source".
b) The second, narrated by the historian Procopius, is placed at the beginning of the 6th century and refers to Justinian. Justinian was hunting in a wonderful landscape with lots of greenery, water and trees. There, as if in a vision, he saw a small chapel, a crowd of people and a priest in front of a fountain.
"It's the source of miracles," they told him. And he built a monastery there with materials left over from Hagia Sophia. I. Kedrinos mentions that it was built in 560 AD.