St. Modestos Icon Mounted on wood Sizes:5 X 7

St. Modestos Icon Mounted on wood Sizes:5 X 7Orthodox Icon of Saint Modestos, Parthriarch of Jerusalem. Protector of animals. Commemorated December 18. Saint Modestus was born into a Christian family in Cappadocian Sebasteia (Asia Minor). He had a strong attraction towards strict monastic life and accepted monastic tonsure. He became head of the monastery of St Theodosius the Great in Palestine. At this time (the year 614), military forces of the Persian ruler Chosroes fell upon Syria and

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coming through the western doors of the church

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Orthodox icon of Saint Maximos

Apostle of the Seventy

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