St. Paisios the Great icon Mounted on wood Sizes in inches:4 X 6

St. Paisios the Great icon Mounted on wood Sizes in inches:4 X 6Orthodox icon of Saint Paisios the Great. Commemorated June 19 Saint Paisius the Great lived in Egypt. His parents, Christians, distributed generous alms to all the needy. After the death of her husband his mother, on the suggestion of an angel, gave her young son Paisius to the clergy of the church. The youth Paisius loved monastic life and spent his time in one of the Egyptian sketes. Renouncing his own will, he lived under the spiritual guidance of

Bishop of Athens St Dionysius lived originally in the city of Athens

He married and had at least one son

Nicodemus was tonsured to the Great Schema

The envoys were impressed by the saint's daughters and granddaughters

with works night and day Athanasius soon attained such perfection

they asked

and he was also greatly loved by the clergy

In 393 he explained the Epistles to the Galatians

because of the shape of it

bishop of Hermopolis

probably in Lesser Scythia (in Dacia Pontica)

The first church in Russia