Theotokos "Prousiotissa" icon Mounted on wood Sizes:8 X 11

Theotokos "Prousiotissa" icon Mounted on wood Sizes:8 X 11Orthodox icon of the Most Holy Theotokos "Prousiotissa". Commemorated August 23rd. The story goes back a thousand years to the time when the heresy against the holy icons, Iconoclasm, was raging all over the Christian world. The Byzantine Emperor Theophilos had ordered, all holy icons be removed from the churches and burned. The Orthodox people were protecting and hiding the holy icons. They put themselves at risk of exile and even death for those

and on Wednesdays and Fridays he would not accept milk from his mother until after his parents had finished their evening prayers

emigrating to Yugoslavia

St Irenaeus wrote to his old friend the priest Florinus: When I was still a boy

In the year 431

Ephthalia the Virgin-Martyr of Sicily

a letter of St Leo to the deceased St Flavian

having been chosen before the ages by Divine Providence to bring about the Mystery of the Incarnation of the Word of God

St Euthymius did not wish to have anyone nearby

usually twice a week

and completed his life there in martyrdom

Orthodox Icon of Isaiah the Prophet

The composition of this icon