Ss. 40 Women Martyrs in Heraclea icon Mounted on wood Sizes:8 X 11

Ss. 40 Women Martyrs in Heraclea icon Mounted on wood Sizes:8 X 11Orthodox icon of the Forty Women Saints (Martyrs) and the Deacon Ammoun, at Heraclea in Thrace. Commemorated September 1st. On the first day of September, which marks the opening of our ecclesiastical year, the Church opens its golden pages of martyrdom by celebrating the resolve of the forty women virgin ascetic martyrs who put to shame the torture mechanisms of Licinius. The forty women virgin martyrs lived in Adrianoupolis of Thrace, in northeast

When the emperors began the fiercest persecution against Christians in history

sought the warm baths near the lake which had been prepared for any who might prove inconstant

on the thirtieth

At her burial

water and an armload of date-palm branches for weaving baskets

His father was a military commander

O Merciful Jesus

Nektarios of Aegina

then an earthquake

Because of the majesty and keenness of his eloquence

Peter of Sebastia (Jan

while in his left he has the transparent globe of the world