St. Savvas of Kalymnos icon Mounted on wood Sizes:4 X 6

St. Savvas of Kalymnos icon Mounted on wood Sizes:4 X 6Orthodox icon of Saint Savvas the New, of Kalymnos. Commemorated April 7. 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. Saint Savvas was born in 1862 in Eastern Thrace. From his youth he had a calling for monastic life. He left for Mount Athos as a teen where he entered St. Anne's Skete. He

While in Palestine

" his became true

he was able to earn his livelihood and also alms for the poor

After the death of his father in 306

Stopping to take care of a physical necessity

she traveled to the city of Philippi in Greek Macedonia

Icon made by iconographer Demetrios Hraniotis (Greece)

and that He would lead them to the knowledge of Truth

Out of humility

emperor Leo

The guests are described simply as three men

St Macrina died in the year 380