Forty Martyrs of Sebaste icon (2) Mounted on wood Sizes:4 X 6Orthodox icon of the Forty Martyrs of the Sebaste Lake (2) Commemorated March 9th. This Orthodox icon according to Saint Basil, involves forty soldiers who had openly confessed themselves Christians who were condemned by the prefect to be exposed naked upon a frozen pond near Sebaste on a bitterly cold night, so that they might freeze to death. Among the confessors, one yielded and, leaving his companions, sought the warm baths near the lake which had
as to their father and teacher
he told the girl about Christ the Savior and taught her the Christian Faith and the Christian virtues
and spent her time in fasting and prayer
praises Saint Isidore thus: “He was a vital and inspired pillar of monastic rules and divine vision
Besides all of his other achievements
Striving towards the knowledge of God
This information came from a note
and one with copper coins
Hanging hand crafted Vigil Oil Lamp
while others suggest the Communists themselves hid it and later sold it abroad
Theoseba and the children wept because they were hungry
She secretly left her parental home with two servants devoted to her
