St. Anthony The Great icon (1) Mounted on wood Sizes:6 X 8

St. Anthony The Great icon (1) Mounted on wood Sizes:6 X 8Orthodox icon of Saint Anthony the Great with Saints. Copy of an icon of 1579, Monastery of Saint Catherine, Sinai. Commemorated January 17. Saint Anthony, the Father of monks, was born in Egypt in 251 of pious parents who departed this life while he was yet young. On hearing the words of the Gospel: "If thou wilt be perfect, go and sell what thou hast, and give to the poor" (Matt. 19: 21), he immediately put it into action. Distributing to the poor

Artemius rejoiced and offered up glory and thanksgiving to Him

To give an authentic testimony of his faith

Her father visited when she was bedridden weeping bitterly

"But I want you to be without care

This indicates how much she stood out from all the women who gathered around the Lord

tied him up

Lydia was baptized in the Gaggitis River and many idolaters became Christians

but each from her own house

the wife of Diocletian

who in addition to being a physician and evangelist was a talented iconographer)

brothers by birth

When he became a man