Iconographer: Elder Hadji-George Athonitou
Commemorates on : July 8, The holy Martyr Procopius was born of a pious father named Christopher, but his mother Theodosia was an idolater. After Christophers death, she presented Neanias – for this was the Saints name before – to Diocletian, who was at Antioch in Syria. Diocletian made him Duke of Alexandria, and sent him there to punish the Christians. On the way to Alexandria, our Lord spoke to him, and turned this new persecutor to faith in Him. Neanias turned back to Scythopolis, and preached Christ. He was betrayed by his own mother, and
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Commemorates on: March 17 Saint Alexios was born in old Rome of illustrious parents named Euphemianus and Aglais, and at their request was joined to a young woman in marriage. However, he did not remain with her even for one day, but fled to Edessa, where he lived for eighteen years. He returned to Rome in the guise of a beggar and sat at the gates of his fathers house, unknown to all and mocked by his own servants. His identity was revealed only after his death by a paper that he had on his person, which he himself had
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Commemorates on : January 18Saint Cyril was also from Alexandria, born about the year 376. He was the nephew of Theophilus, Patriarch of Alexandria, who also instructed the Saint in his youth. Having first spent much time with the monks in Nitria, he later became the successor to his uncles throne in 412. In 429, when Cyril heard tidings of the teachings of the new Patriarch of Constantinople, Nestorius, he began attempting through private letters to bring Nestorius to renounce his heretical teaching about the Incarnation. When the heresiarch did not repent, Saint Cyril, together with Pope Celestine of Rome,
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Unique Museum Copy of Virgin Amolintos.This icon shows the saddest countenance of the Virgin among all the other icongraphic types. Christ turns his head towards the left and sees the angel who is holding the Cross while the other angel is holding the symbols of Passion. The icon is painted in egg tempera on wood and the two prototypes are to be found in Fiesole of Florence and Saint Alphonso of Rome.
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