Theotokos "Portaitissa" icon (SSC) Silkscreen icons:4 x 5 1/2

Theotokos "Portaitissa" icon (SSC) Silkscreen icons:4 x 5 1/2Orthodox Icon of Theotokos "Portaitissa" or Panagia Portaitissa in Silk screen. This icon is made with the special technique of silkscreen on a canvas and by using real gold foil. During the Iconoclast period where the government tried to destroy icons a widow took an icon of the Mother of God and cast it into the sea to save it. One evening the monks of the Iveron Monastery on Mt. Athos beheld a pillar of light, shining upon the sea like the sun.

She struggled and became an exemplary monk

St Andrew wrote many liturgical hymns

St Sophia reposed peacefully at the age of fifty-thre Referench:

The saint celebrated the services in the seminary church

he was struck by their profundity

the wise Persians from the East

The devoted Sabina accompanied her

St Euthymius later became a monk and was ordained to the holy priesthood

the holy relics dissolved

and that people would come there to venerate his holy relics

where people pray to him in times of contagious diseases

and was occupied by evil thoughts and desires