St. Elizabeth, the Grand Duchess of Russia Sizes in inches:5 x 7

St. Elizabeth, the Grand Duchess of Russia Sizes in inches:5 x 7Orthodox icon of Saint Elizabeth, the Grand Duchess of Russia. Contemporary icon Commemorated July 18. Saint Elizabeth was the older sister of Tsarina Alexandra, and was married to the Grand Duke Sergius, the governor of Moscow. She converted to Orthodoxy from Protestantism of her own free will, and organized women from all levels of society to help the soldiers at the front and in the hospitals. Grand Duke Sergius was killed by an assassins bomb on

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who ended their activities there

Orthodox icon of Theotokos "Tenderness" (5)

The Muscovites refused to return the icon to Vladimir and placed it in the Cathedral of the Dormition of the Moscow Kremlin

who told him to put off the operation

faith and piety

along with his friend Apollophonos where he witnessed the solar eclipse that occurred at the moment of the death of the Lord Jesus Christ by Crucifixion

Baptize me Yourself with your Holy Spirit

When Michael came of age

and then died a horrible death

Orthodox icon of Saint John the Chrysostom (4)

illumined with heavenly light