St. Barbara icon Mounted on wood Sizes:14 x 20

St. Barbara icon Mounted on wood Sizes:14 x 20Orthodox icon of Saint Barbara , the Great Martyr at Heliopolis in Syria. Commemorated December 4th. Protector Saint of : Pregnant Women Holy Great Martyr Barbara lived and suffered during the reign of the emperor Maximian (305 311). Her father, the pagan Dioscorus, was a rich and illustrious man in the Syrian city of Heliopolis. After the death of his wife, he devoted himself to his only daughter. Seeing Barbara's extraordinary beauty, Dioscorus

he died in 1569 B

whose numbers filled all of the prisons

laid it on the water and after making the sign of the cross

Commemorated December 31

more often than others

Licinius had instituted a decree for the annihilation of all Christians who refused to sacrifice to idols

Victorinus and Symphorian were seized at the riverbank

envisioned that his daughter should become a pagan priestess

Saint Silouan was a monk of the early twentieth century at the Monastery of St

St John the Russian is widely venerated on Mount Athos

wondering for almost five years on the Mountains of Tzoumerka

for the grief-stricken