Theotokos of "Harou" icon Mounted on wood Sizes:5 X 7

Theotokos of "Harou" icon Mounted on wood Sizes:5 X 7Orthodox icon of The Most Holy Theotokos of "Harou) of the "Death" (2). In this icon Theotokos in this icon is holding in Her hands the body of crucified Christ. The story about the original icon is unknown. The only thing that we know is that, around 1600, Monks from the Monastery of St John the Theologian in Patmos arrived at the island of Leipsoi in Greece and founded a new Monastery, they built the Church and they placed there this very unusual

Irene asked to stop so she could receive the blessing of St Joannicius (November 4)

Markella continued to pray as he approached her hiding place

His knowledge of this subspecialty helped him treat not only his trachoma patients but many other serious eye conditions as well

where very important learned priests from Mount Athos were teaching

and appealed to all to acknowledge Christ: I am a servant of Christ

Faith was twelve

St Melania finished the great work in a single year

because it was the great day of the Sabbath

when the tortures had started

When Maximian learned that the newly-appointed proconsul was a Christian

and the report of his deeds of virtue drew such a multitude to follow him that the desert was transformed into a city

The tooth found in the coffin in Padua was also found to fit the jawbone of the skull