St. Savvas the Sanctified icon (3) Sizes in inches:4 x 6

St. Savvas the Sanctified icon (3) Sizes in inches:4 x 6Orthodox Icon of Saint Savvas, Sabbas the Sanctified (3). Commemorated December 5th. Saint Savvas was born in the village of Mutalaska, in the province of Cappadocia. When he was seventeen years old he received monastic tonsure. After spending ten years at the monastery of St Flavian, he went to Jerusalem, and then to the monastery of St Euthymius the Great (January 20). But St Euthymius sent St Savas to Abba Theoctistus, the head of a nearby

a monastic community grew up around them

In this icon our Jesus Christ is giving benediction and holding a Gospel book is one of the oldest iconographic types of Orthodox Icons of Christ

and the glory of Thy people Israel (Luke 2:29-32)

the farmer began to glorify the God of the Christians throughout all the city

Nectarios of Aegina

and only by the prayer of the saint were they put down

and the haughty sorcerer perished in the depths of the sea

the pure lamb Drosis

He was a truthful

sent forth to serve

but it lacked the glory of the first

John received his literary training under Anthragathius the philosopher