Archangel Michael "Taxiarches" of Mantamados icon (2). Sizes in inches:6 x 8

Archangel Michael "Taxiarches" of Mantamados icon (2). Sizes in inches:6 x 8Orthodox icon of Archangel Michael " Taxiarches" of Mantamados (2), of Lesvos insland, Greece. Contemporary icon Commemorated November 8 There are two stories surrounding the date of this icon, one having to do with the Ottoman Turkish occupation and destruction of 1462, and the other with Saracen pirates during the 9th and 10th centuries during which the entire island was invaded. In either case, the story of the creation of the icon shares the theme

Syriga and Angelos Benizelos

Elder Porphyrios settled different disciples of his there in succession

she destroyed all her father’s idols

This the icon which he is shown holding

The Holy Prophet Zachariah and the Righteous Elizabeth were the parents of the holy Prophet

" The Emperor Valens himself was almost won over by Basil's dignity and wisdom

she would be hacked to pieces

Patriarch of Constantinople (447-449) was read

and she and Theodota again devoted themselves to the care of imprisoned Christians

St Gregory was ransomed and returned to Thessalonica

during the singing of the hymns of the Passion

The prophecy was fulfilled when the Philistines