St. Theodote icon Mounted on wood Sizes:3 X 5

St. Theodote icon Mounted on wood Sizes:3 X 5Orthodox icon of Saint Theodote of Ankara. Commemorated October 21st..

and was the only son of pious parents Theophanes and Nonna

beasts and cattle

Orthodox icon of Archangel Raphael

After torture

Athanasius the Great

The coffin was reverently removed from its grave in the cemetery of the Brotherhood of the Holy Sepulcher on Mount Sion

on a Saturday

1823 workers were leveling the ground inside the church in preparation for laying a new stone floor

This isolation was necessary for successful inner concentration and noetic prayer and he made great spiritual progress there

Orthodox icon of the Last Judgement (1)

soldiers seized the saint in the church

after being sleep deprived and interrogated for three weeks he broke down in a state of hallucination and signed a confession that he was a counter-revolutionary