St. Pachomios The Great icon Mounted on wood sizes:4 x 6

St. Pachomios The Great icon Mounted on wood sizes:4 x 6Orthodox icon of Saint Pachomius, Pachomios the Great ' . Contemporary icon Commemorated May 15. Saint Pachomius the Great was both a model of desert dwelling, and with Saints Anthony the Great (January 17), Macarius the Great (January 19), and Euthymius the Great (January 20), a founder of the cenobitic monastic life in Egypt. Saint Pachomius was born in the third century in the Thebaid (Upper Egypt). His parents were pagans who gave him an excellent

he began to prophesy

later he was renamed Peter by the Lord Jesus Christ Himself

Several Christians of Nicaea wanted to bury his body near the city

and later again to Thessalonica

Demetrios the Myrrh gusher of Thessalonica (5)

He was wounded for our sins and tortured for our transgressions

as faith in him and the church has shone a great host of miracles up to today

but as you will

she was stricken with an exceedingly painful disease

Once he made some pottage and was about to take it to the reapers in the field

His parents' names were Basil and Emily

Peter was the first Bishop of Antioch where followers were first called Christians