Supplication icon (1) Mounted on wood Sizes:8 X 11

Supplication icon (1) Mounted on wood Sizes:8 X 11Orthodox icon of Deisis, Supplication, with Theotokos and Saint John the Baptist. Copy of an icon of 15th cent. Monastery of Saint Catherine Sinai.

Saint Savvas the New is the patron saint of the Greek Island of Kalymnos where he lived during the last twenty years of his life as the priest and spiritual father of the nuns of the Convent of All Saints

They are distinguished by their eloquence and the remarkable ease with which rich imagery and scriptural allusions are multiplied

There are numerous miracles associated with his life and many after his repose up to the present day

Her name was Helen Dragash and after she became wife of Manuel II Palaiologos she was "Helen in Christ Gog Augusta and Empress of the Romans

he was given a blessing by the abbot to become the monastery's ecclesiarch in which capacity he served for two years

He sailed to his native island of Cyprus

to reveal to him the mystery of the Incarnation of the Son of God from the All-Pure Virgin Mary

with his just complaint

Throughout all of the trials

to remain in his monastery until his last breath

Together with St

by their earnestness and moral force