St. Efstratius and his companions the Holy Martyrs Mounted on wood Sizes:5 X 7

St. Efstratius and his companions the Holy Martyrs Mounted on wood Sizes:5 X 7Orthodox icon of Saints Eustratius, Efstratios (Efstratius), Auxentius, Eugene (Eugenius), Mardarius, and Orestes the Martyrs of Greater Armenia. Icon of 14th cent. Commemorated December 13th. The Five Martyrs were from Greater Armenia. Like their ancestors, they worshipped Christ in secret; during the persecution of Diocletian, they presented themselves before the Forum authorities, and having been tormented in diverse manners, by Lysius the

She left her mother and went to Ephesus where she taught the people and performed many miracles

Those who turn to St Xenia in prayer receive healing from illness

Icon of 16th cent

Again deposed from his See in 886

St Xenia loved children

who was a simple carpenter from Nazareth

Abba Dorotheus wrote 21 Discourses

One of the guards set to keep watch over the martyrs beheld at this moment a supernatural brilliancy overshadowing them and at once proclaimed himself a Christian

and through the prayers of St Eudokia

Orthodox icon of the Baptism of our Lord Jesus Christ (Theophany icon) (4)

beseeching him to return

and was dedicated to St John and to the Life-Giving Fountain