Theotokos icon (2) Mounted on wood Sizes:4 X 6

Theotokos icon (2) Mounted on wood Sizes:4 X 6Orthodox icon of Theotokos and the Child, tempera and gold on wood and canvas, St. Catherine's Monastery Sinai,13 century. In this icon the Virgin Mary appears with Her hands raised in the act of prayer. She is dressed in a dark robes covered and wrapped in red mantle bordered in gold. The Child is presented in a large gilt medallion surrounded by pearls that recall the maternity of Virgin Mary; His is blessing with one hand while holding a scroll in

and stayed there for five years

and finally in Rome

Prostrated before the reliquary containing the relics of her daughters she said

But the nuns decided not to leave and entrusted themselves to the will of the Lord

He called the other workers

On bottom right we see a midwife

the Mother of God spoke to the sacristan of the church where the saint lived: Lead into My church that Man of God

who were sent to Phrygia by the emperor Constantine to put down a rebellion

He completed a Modern Greek translation of a book by St Theophylact

This last arrangement of the figures has remained permanently on the icon and has

and had his ribcage opened with knives

The holy martyr with a feigned willingness answered