Palestine

Feast Day/Commemorated: May 8 ***This Icon Depicts Saint John and Prochorus in the Cave of Patmos The final earthly moments of Saint John the Theologian, as recounted by tradition, are shrouded in an aura of profound reverence and mystery. At over a...

Commemorated on June 29On this most radiant day, the Holy Church piously gathers to offer hymns of praise to the Holy, Glorious, and All-Praised Leaders of the Apostles, Peter and Paul, who by their sacred sufferings have illumined the ends of the earth...

Feast Day/Commemorated: February 3 Symeon the God-Receiver was a devout and righteous man of Jerusalem, recognized for his deep faith and his role as one of the seventy scholars commissioned by Pharaoh Ptolemy II Philadelphus. While working in...

Feast Day/Commemorated:  September 23rd – Conception of St. JohnJanuary 7th – Synaxis of St. John February 24th – 1st & 2nd Findings of the head of St. JohnMay 25th – 3rd Finding of the head of St. JohnJune 24th...

Feast Day/Commemorated:  September 23rd – Conception of St. JohnJanuary 7th – Synaxis of St. John February 24th – 1st & 2nd Findings of the head of St. JohnMay 25th – 3rd Finding of the head of St. JohnJune 24th...

Feast Day/Commemorated: April 9 The Holy Newly-Appeared Martyrs of Lesbos, Saints Raphael, Nicholas, and Irene, were killed by the invading Turks on Bright Tuesday, April 9, 1463, just ten years after the Fall of Constantinople. For nearly five...

Feast Day/Commemorated:  September 23rd – Conception of St. JohnJanuary 7th – Synaxis of St. John February 24th – 1st & 2nd Findings of the head of St. JohnMay 25th – 3rd Finding of the head of St. JohnJune 24th...

Feast Day/Commemorated:  September 23rd – Conception of St. JohnJanuary 7th – Synaxis of St. John February 24th – 1st & 2nd Findings of the head of St. JohnMay 25th – 3rd Finding of the head of St. JohnJune 24th...

Feast Day/Commemorated: June 15 Saint Jerome, born Eusebius Hieronymos Sophronius in Stridon, was a pivotal figure in Christian history. He received a thorough secular education in Rome, where he initially succumbed to worldly temptations before...

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: 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,...