Theotokos "Kykkotissa" icon (2) Mounted on wood Sizes:4 X 6

Theotokos "Kykkotissa" icon (2) Mounted on wood Sizes:4 X 6Orthodox icon of Theotokos "Kykkotissa" (2). Copy of an icon of 13th cent. Monastery of Saint Catherine, Sinai.

not only for his own deeds

St Dorotheus visited and listened to the counsels of other great ascetics of his time

Saint Savvas left his hermitage and came to the monastery

Because of the inappropriate behavior of some monks

On January 26 we celebrate the transfer of the relics of Theodore the Studite from Cherson to Constantinople in the year 845

As David Talbot Rice asserts in the latest edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica

When they asked him what he had dreamt

and III John

asked the saint

saintnicodemos

He had vowed to God that he would not abandon these women when he left the world because they had been faithful helpers of his for many years

" until they had completed the rule of a great schema monk