Ladder of Divine Ascent icon Mounted on wood Sizes:4 X 6

Ladder of Divine Ascent icon Mounted on wood Sizes:4 X 6Orthodox icon of the Ladder of the Divine Ascent. Copy of an icon of 12th cent. Monastery of Saint Catherine, Sinai Egypt.

Copy of a contemporary icon

But what is most important of all for us

seized and led to the pasha of Chios

After her Baptism St Olga (July 14) built a temple of the holy Prophet Elijah in his native region

by Theophanis the Cretan

asking to be baptized

who was treated with devotion

He called her close to Him on March 13th of 1450

to keep the vow made at his tonsure some sixty years earlier

On the island of Aegina he found an abandoned monastery dedicated to the Holy Trinity

He had always wanted to return

which later became Constantinople (now Istanbul)