Ss. Aquila and Priscilla the Apostles icon Size:8 x 11

Ss. Aquila and Priscilla the Apostles icon Size:8 x 11Orthodox icon of the Apostles and Martyrs Aquila, and Priscilla. Commemorated on February 13 Protectors Saints of: Spouses Aquila and his wife Priscilla (or Prisca) were Jews from Pontus who settled in Rome, where they worked as tent makers. When the Emperor Claudius expelled all Jews from Rome in 49 50, they moved to Corinth. (They may already have been Christians; at that time the Empire made no distinction between Christians and Jews.) In Corinth

He traveled over large areas of the Roman Empire

Saint Kenneth was born in the 6th century

they undertook its restoration

he set out for Egypt

More than four thousand Christians

and beside it a hostel for strangers

Icon of 13 cent

Each day he worked until exhausted

In the Lives of the Saints is clear testimony that in the year 1484 the right hand of the holy Forerunner was given away by the son of the Moslem sultan Bayazet to the knights of Rhodes to gain their good will

The following years were devoted to work on new theological writings: Concerning Providence (To the Ascetic Stagirios)

St Gregory left behind many remarkable works of dogmatic character

representing Christ in His role of savior