St. John of Damascus icon Mounted on wood Sizes:11 x 17

St. John of Damascus icon Mounted on wood Sizes:11 x 17Orthodox icon of Saint John of Damascus. Copy of a contemporary icon. Commemorated December 4th. This Orthodox icon is a copy of an icon made by the iconographer Demetrios Hraniotis (Greece). This Orthodox icon depicts Saint John of Damascus who was born in 650. He became a high official in the Omayyad caliphate despite his Christian faith. He fell out of favor when the Iconoclast emperor Leo III the Isaurian denounced him based on a forged letter

you cannot frighten one who wishes to die for Christ

Christians

the emperor ordered fifty of the most learned philosophers and rhetoricians of the Empire to dispute with her

In the afternoon

Saint Luke's prayers to have Holy God chanted at his funeral during the atheistic times were answered

Almost immediately Saint Luke was sent to the first of his three imprisonments

When he died they buried him in the same tomb with his daughter

Sergius opened the tomb which emitted a beautiful fragrance from the incorrupt relics and took care to only remove some hair from the beard and head of the Saint in order to distribute to the faithful to increase their faith and help aid in their salvation

since by her intercessions she healed many from the effects of potions

Orthodox icon of Saint Athanasios the Founder of the Great Lavra Monastery and Coenobitic Monasticism in Mt

whose very name signifies Man of God (Luke

The saint signed himself with the Sign of the Cross