St. Xanthippe icon Mounted on wood Sizes:6 X 8

St. Xanthippe icon Mounted on wood Sizes:6 X 8Orthodox icon of Saint Xanthippe, the Disciple of the Apostles. Commemorated September 23. The Monastic Women Xanthippe and Polyxene were sisters by birth and they lived in Spain in the time of the holy Apostles. They were among the first to hear the divine teaching of Christ the Savior from the holy Apostle Paul, when he preached in their land. St Xanthippe and her husband Probus accepted Christianity, but St Polyxene was still a pagan when a certain

The relics of St Euthymius remained at his monastery in Palestine

and may hint at the style of the lost secular art of the empire

The man saw the humble monk with the worn robe

sung every Holy Wednesday (liturgically

as can be plainly seen from his Funeral Oration on Saint Basil (Orat

and the new name Lazarus

The abbess did not believe in the story but told her to go to sleep and the following day she could paint an icon of the Panagia with her blessing

let her consider what this Saint did and let her do the same if she wishes to be saved

which turned out to be over seven thousand men

where the Icon of the Lord Not-made-by-Hands (August 16) was preserved

After Constans's death in 350

The Spiritual Father After this the resident Metropolitan of Karystia