The Picture with the Eyes Cut Out

He is said to have found it in a devastated chapel. When he wept over the picture, whose eyes had been cut out, the Virgin Mary is said to have appeared to him and said: 'Let this picture be the banner and leader of the army; when you have defeated the enemy in a bloody battle, my picture will restore itself to its former beauty.' And indeed, according to the legend, after the Battle of the White Mountain the traces of blasphemous human hands vanished from the picture.