St. Gregory of Nyssa icon Mounted on wood Sizes:6 X 8

St. Gregory of Nyssa icon Mounted on wood Sizes:6 X 8Orthodox icon of Saint Gregory, Bishop of Nyssa. Commemorated October 1. Saint Gregory, Bishop of Nyssa, was a younger brother of St Basil the Great (January 1). His birth and upbringing came at a time when the Arian disputes were at their height. Having received an excellent education, he was at one time a teacher of rhetoric. In the year 372, he was consecrated by St Basil the Great as bishop of the city of Nyssa in Cappadocia. St Gregory was an

She entreated God that her other daughters should also be brought to slaughter as a blameless sacrifice

They are not there

when the maiden was fourteen years old

He also saw there a monk of his monastery

Orthodox icon of Saint Evanthia

Deliver me from the false accusation of men

how he came to be there

The emperor concluded that the saint was being helped by magic

one of the horses charged Licinius

or send her back to him

they lost control of their hands

She answered them with the words which she had said to the Apostles