St. Anastasia the Deliverer from the Potions icon (2) Mounted on wood Sizes:5 X 7

St. Anastasia the Deliverer from the Potions icon (2) Mounted on wood Sizes:5 X 7Orthodox icon of Saint Anastasia, Great martyr, the Deliverer from Potions (2) Commemorated December 22. This Saint, who was from Rome, was a most comely, wealthy, and virtuous maiden, the daughter of Praepextatus and Fausta. It was her mother who instructed her in the Faith of Christ. The Saint was joined to a man named Publius Patricius, who was prodigal in life and impious in disposition, but she was widowed after a short time. Henceforth, she went

In the same year these sacred items were transferred into the church dedicated to the Icon of the Savior Not Made by Hands at the Winter Palace

he was deprived of the emblems of his episcopal rank and placed under guard

The man saw the humble monk with the worn robe

icon of 16 cent

Who had humiliated the idols and those who worshipped them

she went about secretly to the dwellings of the poor and the prisons where the Martyrs of Christ were

Then he sent St Kyriake to be interrogated by his son-in-law and co-ruler Maximian at Nicomedia

who succeeded Leo the Armenian

Orthodox icon of Saint Climis of Viotia

to Kalogreza

In the year 1326

He wears a crown of thorns