St. Nataly (Natalia) icon Mounted on wood Sizes:6 X 8

St. Nataly (Natalia) icon Mounted on wood Sizes:6 X 8Orthodox Icon of Saint Natalia of Nicomedia. Commemorated August 26. This is the Orthodox icon of Saint Natalia who was married in her youth to Saint Adrian. The emperor promised a reward to whomever would inform on Christians to bring them to trial. Then the denunciations began, and twenty three Christians were captured in a cave near Nicomedia. They were tortured, urged to worship idols, and then brought before the Praetor, in order to record their

The relics of St Euthymius remained at his monastery in Palestine

His body was withered by fasting

Along the way she felt faint and slumped against a wall

On hearing the words of the Gospel: "If thou wilt be perfect

This radiant beacon of Orthodoxy spent most of his life in exile from his See

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Then Diocletian gave orders to subject St George to some very intense tortures

for which she was granted the gift of wonderworking

Only with difficulty did St Gregory survive the loss of his brother and guide

The Theotokos appeared to her in a dream and ordered her to go to Stamatelos Kangades (a prominent man of the village)

then reposed in 373

She answered them with the words which she had said to the Apostles