There are no extant accounts as to how this icon first appeared at the monastery of the Theotokos at Miasena, near the city of Melitene, Little Armenia.
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Due to diplomatic relations with the Mongol Empire, Hethum himself traveled to the Mongol court in Karakorum, Mongolia, which was recorded in the famous account "The Journey of Haithon, King of Little Armenia, To Mongolia and Back" by Hetoum's companion, the Armenian historian Kirakos Gandzaketsi.