St. Theodora of Vasta icon. Mounted on wood Sizes:6 X 8

St. Theodora of Vasta icon. Mounted on wood Sizes:6 X 8Orthodox Icon of Saint Theodora of Vasta. Comemmorated September 11th. Her church in the Peloponnese has become a great place of pilgrimage in Greece, where many hasten for healings of soul and body, or solely to see the miraculous trees that are part of her chapel. St Theodora lived during the tenth century on the Peloponnesus in Greece, near the border between the regions of Messenia and Arcadia in a town called Vasta. When the area was raided by

the saint prayed to the Panagia for protection and tried to avoid him as much as she could

who had survived the burning of 20

On July 28

The icon of the Theotokos of Vladimir is sometimes described as expressing universal feelings of motherly love and anxiety for her child

Adrian her husband

When he saw the ox alive

he was determined to flee the world and set his mind upon heavenly things

She heard bells of a flock of sheep and a shepherdess appeared and she called out to her

The sizes in this icon are approximate

and were beheaded

when on the occasion of the birth of a son

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