St. Basil the Great icon (1) Mounted on wood Sizes:5 X 7Orthodox icon of Saint Basil, Archbishop of Caesarea in Cappadocia (1). Commemorated January 1. Saint Basil the Great was born about the end of the year 329 in Caesarea of Cappadocia, to a family renowned for their learning and holiness. His parents' names were Basil and Emily. His mother Emily (commemorated July 19) and his grandmother Macrina (Jan. 14) are Saints of the Church, together with all his brothers and sisters: Macrina, his elder sister
She answered thinking that she was seeing the gardener
In this icon our Jesus Christ is giving benediction and holding a Gospel book is one of the oldest iconographic types of Orthodox Icons of Christ
She has in Her hands the mountain and the ladder sign of unity between heaven and earth brought to fruition by the Incarnation
The saint spent four years struggling in the wilderness
she told the other nuns that they should not accept anyone but Irene as the new abbess
who were secretly Christians
appointed a committee to investigate the relics in Padua
Orthodox Icon of Nicholas Planas of Athens
People interpreted this as a sign that the Theotokos wanted her icon to stay in Vladimir
They comforted him assuring him she was in a godly place
From an iconographical point of view the Archangel can be connected with the figure of the Archangel Michael from the larger scene of the Last Judgement in the Chora Monastery in Constantinople (1315-1320)
Various passages are used in Pantocrator icons as are various languages
