St. Peter the Apostle icon (7) Mounted on wood Sizes:11 X 17

St. Peter the Apostle icon (7) Mounted on wood Sizes:11 X 17Orthodox icon of Apostle Peter (7). Icon of 16 cent. Mount Athos, Monastery of Stavronikita. Commemorated June 29. The divinely blessed Peter was from Bethsaida of Galilee. He was the son of Jonas and the brother of Andrew the First called. He was a fisherman by trade, unlearned and poor, and was called Simon; later he was renamed Peter by the Lord Jesus Christ Himself, Who looked at him and said, "Thou art Simon the son of Jonas; thou shalt be called

but to tie them to the cross

Outside the city

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

Constantius divorced her in 294 in order to further his political ambition by marrying a woman of noble rank

No one ever knew she was a woman

St Sophia became sorrowful

the community grew to thirty nuns

why aren't you burning

She dampened it with tears of rejoicing and tied it securely with strands of her own hair

Coming near a pagan temple

perhaps as a celebration of all martyrs

there would be no water