Theotokos of "Axion Esti" icon Mounted on wood Sizes:11 X 17

Theotokos of "Axion Esti" icon Mounted on wood Sizes:11 X 17The very miraculous icon of the Most Holy Theotokos and Virgin Maria, the "Axion Esti". This is a copy from the original icon that the miracle happened. According to tradition, an elder and his disciple lived in in a cell on Mount Athos. One Saturday night the elder left to attend the All Night Vigil in the Protaton of Karyes. He told his disciple to chant the service alone. That evening an unknown monk who called himself Gabriel, came to the cell,

she smiled when she saw the angels who had been sent to receive her soul

" Father Agapios confirmed it was his daughter and went and told the abbot and the rest of the brotherhood

you should have shown me this mercy from the very beginning

but he was responsible for the care of his younger sister

Then he sent St Kyriake to be interrogated by his son-in-law and co-ruler Maximian at Nicomedia

by his supremely wise words and many labours he freed it from the corruption of heresy

After five years he was inspired to go the island of Cephalonia

16 century

He was beheaded by the sword

comforting and encouraging him

The patriarch supported Akyndinos and called St Gregory the cause of all disorders and disturbances in the Church (1344) and had him locked up in prison for four years

because of the threat of Turkish invasions