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The Cathedral of Rethymnon contains a portable icon of the Virgin of the Passion, which was brought there from the church of Our Lady of the Angels when it was converted into a Turkish mosque. The icon is undated and unsigned. Its iconographic type was popular with Cretan painters and is also found in icons preserved in Rethymnon villages. This particular icon is compared with a Virgin of the Passion found in Fiesole, Florence, and signed “Andrea Ricco di Candia pinxit”, as well as a Cretan icon of similar style in the church of St Alfonso in Rome. It may be dated to the late 16th or the first half of the 17th century.
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