The Nicene Icon of the Mother of God was glorified in the year 304 AD. During a siege visited upon the city of Nicaea , Asia Minor, by Amir, a certain man named Constantine saw the Icon of the Mother of God, grabbed a stone and threw it at the Icon, and then began to trample the Icon underfoot. That night, the Theotokos appeared to the sacrilegious one in a dream and said, “You have done me a great outrage. Know that you have done it unto your perdition.” His punishment quickly ensued. During a battle, he was suddenly struck on the head with a stone, and fell dead.
The account was related to the fathers of the First Ecumenical Council (325), who then directed that the Theotokion hymn “Thy Womb is the Holy Festal Table” be sung before that Icon.