St. Alexios, Man of God icon Mounted on wood Sizes:5 X 7

St. Alexios, Man of God icon Mounted on wood Sizes:5 X 7Orthodox icon of Saint Alexios, man of God. Commemorated March 17. Saint Alexios was born at Rome into the family of the pious and poverty loving Euphemianus and Aglais. The couple was childless for a long time and constantly prayed the Lord to grant them a child. And the Lord consoled the couple with the birth of their son Alexis. At six years of age the child began to read and successfully studied the mundane sciences, but it was with particular

and was born in the ninth century

As the wheel turned

She entreated God that her other daughters should also be brought to slaughter as a blameless sacrifice

The magistrate was angered by her words

and founder of the Monastery of Chilandari

Looking up

At the crypt of St Basiliscus (May 22)

For three years St Dionysius remained a companion of the holy Apostle Paul in preaching the Word of God

he subdued his flesh with great asceticism

In St Luke's Gospel

The Lord led him to Mount Steiri

THe Theotokos would have been her stepmother