Theotokos "Immaculate" icon (3) Mounted on wood Sizes:8 X 11

Theotokos "Immaculate" icon (3) Mounted on wood Sizes:8 X 11Orthodox icon of the Most Holy and Ever Virgin Theotokos "Immaculate" (3). The icon was painted in Crete around 1540, now is in Byzantine Museum of Athens. Theotokos is painted here holding Christ in Her arms and having two Angelson each side. The Angel on the left is holding the Cross, in which Her Son will be crucified and the other Angel on the right is holding the Sponge and the Spear. The Baby Christ looks the Cross that symbolize His Crucifixion.

That night Christ appeared to her and healed her wounds

At the all-night vigil

She was so impressed by the nuns and their way of life that she freed her slaves and distributed her wealth to the poor

But on the very first day of the journey Aurelian's son injured his leg and soon died

insults and obscenities of the kind which local Christians suffer regularly After a few days

It says in the Gospels that the Lord expelled seven devils from Mary (Luke

He had not lost all hope of influencing St George

Seeing the pot

Tradition says that in his later years the Emperor Theophilus

Saint Euphrosynus the Cook was from one of the Palestinian monasteries

Commemorated July 26

she was wed to a youth of seventeen named Apinianus