Dear Griego Amigo,
Well, my copy of the icon does indeed show the scars on the cheek of the Theotokos!
There is a whole series of such miraculous copies of the Icon of Czestochowa which was originally venerated in Kyiv and then in Belz near the Polish border.
Count Opolskie took the icon (originally gifted by a Greek princess as a marriage token to her Kyivan ruler husband) to Czestochowa.
Wherever the Icon stayed overnight during those travels on horseback, there miraculous events took place and a church or monastery was built on the spot together with a copy of the icon (e.g. the miraculous icon of Turkovits which is also a copy of the Kyiv-Belz Icon - later named after Czestochowa).
Prince Theodore Ostrozhky was fighting the Poles in the 15th century when he later joined a peace mission at Czestochowa.
When he saw the icon there, he was indignant (he felt it was stolen from its proper shrine) and he went to take it down to take back to Ukraine with him.
He was arrested by the RC authorities and put on trial for blasphemy.
At his trial, he said he intended no blasphemy but that he want to correct a wrong by taking that "Ruthenian Icon" back with him.
He was acquitted but then he went to Kyiv and received the tonsure at the Kyivan Caves Lavra where he died a saint and is now numbered among the Holy Fathers there.
This icon is a true Black Madonna and is widely venerated throughout Orthodox Ukraine and also in my nemesis, Russia.
Alex
