St. Gregory Palamas icon Mounted on wood Sizes:3 X 5

St. Gregory Palamas icon Mounted on wood Sizes:3 X 5Orthodox icon of Saint Gregory Palamas, Archbishop of Thessaloniki, 14 cent., from Vatopaidi Monastery, Mount Athos. Commemorated November 14th and the second Sunday of the Great Lent. Saint Gregory Palamas, Archbishop of Thessalonica, was born in the year 1296 in Constantinople. St Gregory's father became a prominent dignitary at the court of Andronicus II Paleologos (1282 1328), but he soon died, and Andronicus himself took part in the raising and

The sizes on this icon are approximate

Orthodox icon of the Council of Archangels

the plaque on the tomb fell and broke into many pieces

Thursday evening the Pope was serving Vigil in the Church of St Peter

assailed the heretic Arius with his words

St Pelagia was living in the women's monastery of the Dormition on Mt

The holy Archangel Gabriel remained with the Holy Virgin Mary when She was a child in the Temple of Jerusalem

In 393 he explained the Epistles to the Galatians

during the construction of a majestic new church on the old spot

and Love was nine

temptations

and he pointed to the fragrant paradaisical fruit