St. Nicholas icon (9) Mounted on wood Sizes:6 X 8

St. Nicholas icon (9) Mounted on wood Sizes:6 X 8Orthodox Icon St Nicholas the Wonderworker and Archbishop of Myra in Lycia (9). This icon is known as "O Streidas" (of the Oyster). Commemorated December 6. This is a copy of an Orthodox icon at the Monastery of Sravronikita, Mount Athos. Very likely, the icon was thrown into the sea in 1306 by the Catalan pirates after the raid that happened. In 1859 when the fishermen of the monastery pulled up the nets found in them the miraculous icon of St.

More than once

falling down at the feet of St George

but a storm arose and the fire went out

The martyr

is expressed in the "Akathistos" thus: "Hail

The queen continued her work and philanthropies more intense than ever

Then he began to pray that the Lord would permit him to remain in that place until the end of his life

after the Apostles and the Evangelist Luke

He prayed and in the name of Christ he commanded the dead one to rise

This is why Christians

Often the kind-hearted Syriga had implored the Most Holy Theotokos for a child

and went to the Monastery of the Most Holy Theotokos Anaphonitria