St. Maurice Icon Mounted on wood Sizes:4 X 6

St. Maurice Icon Mounted on wood Sizes:4 X 6Orthodox icon of Saint Maurice. Commemorated Sept 22. St. Maurice was captan of a legion of soldier who were martyred in the year 286 for their faith in Christ. He and Sts. Exuperius, Candidus, Victor, Innocent, and their 6,600 companions were sent from Egypt to Agaunum (15 miles from Lake Geneva) to put down a rebellion against Roman authority. When the commander ordered sacrifices and oaths in preparation for battle, the whole legion refused to

The people cried out: Truly

" his became true

When the discord in the Carthage church began to quiet down

We commemorate this Triumph of Orthodoxy on the first Sunday of Great Lent

bearing in its beak a golden crown

His principal works are three writings against iconoclasm

St Joseph was present when the shepherds and the Magi worshiped the new-born divine Infant

As the Evangelist Matthew relates

her incorrupt and miracle-working relics were given by the Turks to the people of Kerkyra (Corfu)

Along the top of the rocks are angels bringing the glad tidings of the birth of the world's Savior

When he was done reading

St Theodore is regarded as the patron saint of soldiers