St. Gregory of Neocaesarea or the Wonderworker icon Sizes in inches:7 X 11

St. Gregory of Neocaesarea or the Wonderworker icon Sizes in inches:7 X 11Orthodox icon of Saint Gregory of Neocaesarea or the Wonderworker. Copy of an icon of 12 cent. Greece. NOTE: this icon is very old and so the quality of it will not be as sharp as the newest icons Commemorated November 17. Saint Gregory the Wonderworker, Bishop of Neocaesarea, was born in the city of Neocaesarea (northern Asia Minor) into a pagan family. Having received a fine education, from his youth he strived for Truth, but the thinkers of

an arch-heretic and Patriarch of Constantinople

Commemorated November 16

She would tell people their names and their family problems without being told beforehand

having agreed to go on the first day of the week to the Tomb early in the morning

the Martyr of Ancyra

and slew him

and firmly confessed her faith in Christ

but after seven years her husband disappeared (likely not of his own will) in 1914 and she was left with a newborn son who soon thereafter died

Orthodox icon of the Tabernacle (2)

Where he came from

first at the Saint Sergius Hermitage near Saint Petersburg on the Gulf of Finland

Xenia Grigorievna Petrova was the wife of an army officer