St. Photios the Great icon Mounted on wood Sizes:8 X 11

St. Photios the Great icon Mounted on wood Sizes:8 X 11Orthodox icon of Saint Photios the Great, Patriarch of Constantinople. Commemorated February 6th. Saint Photius, Patriarch of Constantinople, the Church's far gleaming beacon, who was born into one of the great families of Constantinople in 810. His father, the spatharios Sergios, was the brother of the Holy Patriarch Tarasios (Feb. 25) and his mother Irene's brother had married the sister of the Empress Theodora. In 857 Bardas, the uncle of Emperor

one on thy right hand and one on thy left

read what he had written and finished the hymn

In place of a dress

This was necessary because the church of the holy Great Martyr George

so the Monothelites asserted that there is in Him only one will

Commemorated August 13th

the great mystery of this event

Journeying from Mount Athos to Thessalonica

"Now take me from here down to my home in Gethsemane of Jerusalem

where he preached a sermon on the divinity of the Son and the Holy Spirit

Saint John the Chrysostom and Saint Gregory the Theologian (2)

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