Ladder of Jacob icon Size:5 x 7

Ladder of Jacob icon Size:5 x 7Orthodox icon of the vision of Jacob. Icon of 16 cent. Mount Athos. "He had a dream in which he saw a stairway resting on the earth, with its top reaching to heaven, and the angels of God were ascending and descending on it." (Genesis 28: 12)

and her feet are set upon a crescent moon

On the orders of the emperor they beat the saint about the mouth with stones

but the voice of his Guardian Angel told him to go into the desert to serve the Lord

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The monk perceived that it was the demons causing these terrors in order to drive him away from the wilderness

He had doubts that in old age it was possible to have a son

At the feet of the Great Martyr the holy empress confessed Christ

Orthodox Icon of Saint Philothea of Athens

Orthodox icon of Saint Theodosius

Father Isaiah

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