St. Meletius, Archbishop of Antioch icon Size:8 X 11

St. Meletius, Archbishop of Antioch icon Size:8 X 11Orthodox icon of Saint Meletius, Archbishop of Antioch. Commemorated February 12. Saint Meletius, Archbishop of Antioch, was Bishop of Sebaste in Armenia (ca. 357), and afterwards he was summoned to Antioch by the emperor Constantius to help combat the Arian heresy, and was appointed to that See. St Meletius struggled zealously against the Arian error, but through the intrigues of the heretics he was thrice deposed from his cathedra. Constantius had

He worked for days on end

have entered

an iconographic type known as the Council of Archangels

but in caves and recesses in the hills

The virgin Nino of Cappadocia was a relative of Great-martyr George and the only daughter of a widely respected and honorable couple

but never considered renouncing it

Who told him that the one who came to the church that night and was first to enter should be made archbishop

after many tortures

Orthodox pair icons of our Jesus Christ and of the Most Holy Theotokos (P9)

Equal of the Apostles

The Lord led him to Mount Steiri

the site of the convent he founded