Icons of Saints

Feast Day/Commemorated: November 28 In 715, Stephen the New was born into a pious Christian family in Constantinople. His parents, having only daughters, had prayed for a son and, in gratitude, dedicated him to God at the Church of the Theotokos. During...

Feast Day/Commemorated: January 6 In the era of Emperor Theodosius the Great, Saint Domnica traveled from Carthage to Constantinople. There, she was baptized by Patriarch Nectarius and joined a women's monastery. Through her rigorous asceticism, she...

Feast Day/Commemorated: December 18 Saint Modestos was born into a Christian family in Sebasteia, Cappadocia, in Asia Minor. Drawn to a life of asceticism, he became a monk on Mount Sinai and later rose to become the abbot of the Monastery of Saint...

Feast Day/Commemorated: July 27 Saint Panteleimon, originally named Pantoleon, was born in Nicomedia to a pagan father and a Christian mother. Though his mother, Saint Euboula, tried to raise him in the Christian faith, her early death led him to a...

Feast Day/Commemorated: July 24 Born into a wealthy family in the third century, the young Christina was the daughter of Urban, the governor of Tyre. At just 11 years old, her exceptional beauty attracted many suitors, but her father had other plans,...

Feast Day/Commemorated: February 10 Haralambos, an aged priest who was 107 years old, served the Christian community in the city of Magnesia during the reign of Emperor Septimus Severus. Known for his unwavering faith, he courageously preached...

Feast Day/Commemorated: August 27 The Discovery of Saint Phanourios The story of Saint Phanourios begins with a surprising discovery in the late 15th or early 16th century. During the rebuilding of the city walls on the island of Rhodes, which had been...

Feast Day/Commemorated: April 23/November 3 This beautiful and finely detailed icon is the work of our own Kyriakos Kosova. Kyriakos Kosova is a master iconographer who spent much of his life in Albania, Greece and Italy. He is now in the US to...

Feast Day/Commemorated: April 23/November 3 Early Life and Military Service of Saint George Saint George was born into a Christian family in the late 3rd century. His father, a Cappadocian army officer, and his mother, a native of Lydda, Palestine,...

Feast Day/Commemorated: May 9 Saint Christopher lived during the 3rd century and was martyred around the year 250 under the reign of Emperor Decius. He was a man of immense stature and strength, originally named Reprebus. According to tradition, he was...

Feast Day/Commemorated: August 10 Saint Blane (c. 530–590) was a monk from the Isle of Bute who established a monastery in what is now Dunblane, Scotland. The son of a Pictish king, he was educated in Ireland and was a nephew of Saint Catan, who...

Feast Day/Commemorated: December 2 The Life of Saint Paisius Olaru of Sihăstria and Shila Monastery (Romania)Saint Paisius (1897-1990), born Peter Olaru, was a revered Romanian schemamonk and confessor whose profound spiritual influence extended to the...