St. Antigone icon Mounted on wood Sizes:8 X 11

St. Antigone icon Mounted on wood Sizes:8 X 11Orthodox icon of Saint Antigone, one of the The Forty Virgin Martyrs and Their teacher Deacon Ammoun. Commemorated September 1st. One of the prophesies about the life of virginity, very prevalent in the New Testament, can be found in the 44th Psalm of David. There, Prophet David sees his distant, precious daughter, the Most Holy Theotokos and Ever Virgin Mary, and prophesies: "Virgins shall be brought to the king after her. With joy and gladness they

and in his proficiency with questions of faith he was like an Elder

Evangelist

three hours and seeing she was not being boiled

On the day of St Alexios death in 411

appointed him vicar bishop of the see of Hippo

through holy Baptism

The words of the eldest daughter who was summoned first angered the judge and he began to torture her

receiving the crown of martyrdom on April 23

Julian became furious and resorted to even more savage tortures

At the age of twenty-six

just like the Apostle Paul

the wheel on which she was tortured