St. Demetrios icon (6) Mounted on wood Sizes:3 X 5

St. Demetrios icon (6) Mounted on wood Sizes:3 X 5Orthodox icon of Demetrius, Demetrios the Myrrh gusher of Thessalonica (5). Commemorated October 26th. Saint Demetrius was a Thessalonian, a most pious son of pious and noble parents, and a teacher of the Faith of Christ. When Maximian first came to Thessalonica in 290, he raised the Saint to the rank of Duke of Thessaly. But when it was discovered that the Saint was a Christian, he was arrested and kept bound in a bath house. While the games were

In the desert the monk struggled intensely with impure thoughts

that he might rest himself

There remained only the abbess Bryaena

This letter

and he was sentenced to death by beheading in the year 312

he would initiate hunger strikes

along with his friend Apollophonos where he witnessed the solar eclipse that occurred at the moment of the death of the Lord Jesus Christ by Crucifixion

But as long as these tripods stood in the bath-house

Nicostratus and Chromatus

save us by Your strength

The prefect was angered

Orthodox icon of Saint John the Merciful