St. Mark the Apostle and Evangelist icon (2) Mounted on wood Sizes:4 X 6

St. Mark the Apostle and Evangelist icon (2) Mounted on wood Sizes:4 X 6Orthodox icon of Saint Mark the Apostle and Evangelist (2). Icon of 14 cent. Chilandari Monastery Mount Athos. Commemorated March 25t

and encouraged him to grow in the monastic virtues

He passed through all the degrees of the priesthood

Orthodox icon of the Presentation of our Lord Jesus Christ to the Temple by Theophanis the Cretan (1535)

After the death of the holy Patriarch Menas

and I am your servant

Commemorated August 16th

having completed thirty-five years of service as a priest

two years after her husband

By order of the emperor they searched frantically for him

In a gesture of sincere regret for his behaviour towards his wife

humility and wisdom

At the foot of the Cross he stood with the Mother of God and heard the words of the Crucified Lord addressed to Her from the Cross: Woman