St. John the Baptist and Forerunner icon (3) Mounted on wood Sizes:5 X 7

St. John the Baptist and Forerunner icon (3) Mounted on wood Sizes:5 X 7Orthodox icon of Saint John the Baptist (3). Copy of an icon of 16 cent., Mount Athos. Commemorated January 7. In the Orthodox Church it is customary, on the day following the Great Feasts of the Lord and the Mother of God, to remember those saints who participated directly in the sacred event. So, on the day following the Theophany of the Lord, the Church honors the one who participated directly in the Baptism of Christ, placing his own hand upon the

still holding in one hand a pitcher and in the other several glasses of wine

in the church portico of the monastery he founded

he resettled in the small skete of Glossia

The pledge within us of “theosis” (or “deification”) is the Baptism of Christ

while he himself settled near the monastery in peace

The monk gradually increased the height of the pillar on which he stood

It happened that there was a shortage of grain at the monastery

but as you will

the governor of Alexandrian Egypt during the reign of the emperor Maximian (305-313)

tended the sick and buried the dead himself

He would tell people The Church is the best heavenly friend of every sincere Christian

9) and his sister Gorgona (Feb