St. Andrew Fool for Christ icon (2) Mounted on wood Sizes:5 X 7

St. Andrew Fool for Christ icon (2) Mounted on wood Sizes:5 X 7Orthodox icon of Saint Andrew Fool for Christ (2). Copy of an icon of 16th cent, St Petersburg Russia. Commemorated May 28th for the Greek Church and October 2nd for the Slavic. Blessed Andrew, Fool for Christ, was a Slav and lived in the tenth century at Constantinople. From his early years, he loved God's Church and the Holy Scriptures. Once during a dream, the saint beheld a vision of two armies. In the one were men in radiant garb, in the other,

After the martyric death of Bishop Pothinus

awaited by the Old Testament Church

Mariamne his sister buried his body

as mentioned above

The Elder always pointed this out to all those who attributed his abilities to something other than grace

After spending ten years at the monastery of St Flavian

and wondrous are Thy works

Maximus the Confessor

During this time

Having matured in this way the young hieromonk Porphyrios

St Polyxene returned to Spain

it devoured people