St. Sophrony of Essex icon Size mounted on wood:8" X 11"Orthodox icon of Saint Sophrony of Essex Monastery, . Commemorated: November 7 Saint Sophrony (born Sergei Semyonovich Sakharov, Russian: ; Born in September 22, 1896, was a Russian Orthodox monk who began his monastic life on Mount Athos, at the Russian Monastery of St. Panteleimon and is considered by the Orthodox tradition to be one of the most charismatic monks of the 20th century. He was born in Moscow and was the second child in a family of
The Myrrh-bearer and Equal to Apostles (3)
St John the Theologian was present when the Lord restored the daughter of Jairus to life
Paraskeva fled to Chalcedon and afterwards lived at the church of the Most Holy Theotokos in Heraklea of Pontus
so they can go to the villages and buy themselves some food
and spare us also from these labors
The holy Bishop Amphilochius of Iconium departed peacefully to the Lord in the year 394
who was also a native of his city
and poured vinegar and salt on her wounds
She chose to enter into a male monastery as no one would be looking for her there
and why do you order me to do these things
"that our rejoicing for him would be more abundant in Jesus Christ by his coming to us
Akyndinos wrote a series of tracts in which he declared St Gregory and the Athonite monks guilty of causing church disorders
