St. John of Climacus icon (2) Sizes in inches:8 x 11

St. John of Climacus icon (2) Sizes in inches:8 x 11Orthodox Icon of Saint John of Climacus, of the Ladder (2). Commemorated March 30th. Saint John was born at 523 in a wealthy and very religious family of Syria. He had every opportunity to be well educated, but he prefered instead of studies prayer and theological readings. At the age of sixteen, he went in Saint Catherine's Monastery in Mount Sinai. Four years after he was tonsured as a monk by his elder Fr. Martyrius. After the death of the Abbot of

Barnabas sold land belonging to him near Jerusalem and he brought the money to the feet of the Apostles

and therefore the righteous Sts Joachim and Anna had to endure abuse from their own countrymen

without money

Arcadius was a man of weak character

On Holy Thursday

Great Martyr St

The names of the Forty Martyrs as follows: Hesychius

and finally impalement

John had before him a brilliant career as a rhetorician

yet firmly he endured the reproaches of his wife and the jeers of his children

Because of the majesty and keenness of his eloquence

"I am the good shepherd