St. Theophanes the Confessor icon Mounted on wood Sizes:6 X 8

St. Theophanes the Confessor icon Mounted on wood Sizes:6 X 8Orthodox icon of Saint Theophanes the Confessor Bishop of Nikea, icon of 13th cent. Mountain Athos. Commemorated October 11th. Saint Theophanes, Confessor and Hymnographer, Bishop of Nicea was the younger brother of the Saint Theodore the Branded (December 27). The brothers received an excellent education and were particularly involved in philosophy. Striving towards the knowledge of God, they settled in the Lavra of Saint Savva. Here Saint Theophanes

Saint Savvas the New is the patron saint of the Greek Island of Kalymnos where he lived during the last twenty years of his life as the priest and spiritual father of the nuns of the Convent of All Saints

but when the disciples saw it

asked for time to pray

when he received the Holy Mysteries

Orthodox icon of Theotokos with Prophets

Sts Nicostratus

and finding no one there

Saint Anthea

and in 1951 they were transferred into a new church dedicated to St John the Russian

the iconoclast bishops assembled in the imperial palace and directed Patr

He was renamed Peter by the Lord Jesus Christ

Commemorated January 10