Transfiguration of Christ Our Lord icon (2) Mounted on wood Sizes:3 X 5

Transfiguration of Christ Our Lord icon (2) Mounted on wood Sizes:3 X 5Orthodox icon the Transfiguration of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ (2). This is a copy of an icon painted by Theophanes the Cretan around 1535, Monastery of Sravronikita Mount Athos. Celebrated on the 6th of August. This event is one of the twelve major feast days of the Orthodox Church. It is recounted in the Synoptic Gospels, (Matthew 17: 1, Mark 9: 2 , Luke 9: 28 ) In this icon Christ is the center and focus of the image, his hand held in a

and was called Simon

and announced that his name was John

when she ate

The murderers searched everywhere for John

When the Apostle Paul came to Rome in chains

Five cathedrals

His gift of persuasion

appointed him to his father's position as proconsul of the Thessalonica district

and diligence became such a habit that I did not know what I ate

slaughtered many people

an island then governed by Byzantium located at the mouth of the gulf of Nicomedia

his neighbor St Theoctistus (September 3) also lived in asceticism