St. Xenia of Rome icon Mounted on wood Sizes:8 X 11

St. Xenia of Rome icon Mounted on wood Sizes:8 X 11Orthodox Icon of Saint Xenia of Rome. Commemorated January 24. This Orthodox Icon shows Saint Xenia of Rome who was the only daughter of a Roman senator. From her youth she loved God, and wished to avoid marriage which had been arranged for her. She secretly left her parental home with two servants devoted to her. Through God's Providence when she set sail she met the head of the monastery of the holy Apostle Andrew in Milassa, a town of Caria (Asia

in the center bottom is a Jesse Tree

More than once

Gerasimus fell asleep in the Lord in the year 475 and was buried by his sorrowing brethren there in his monastery

and his obedience was to work in the kitchen as a cook

Theotokos is painted here holding Christ in Her arms and having two Angelson each side

the Man of God

assuage thy sorrow

This Orthodox Icon shows Saint Xenia of Rome who was the only daughter of a Roman senator

at peril to life and limb

the so-called Hagiorite Tome

but fell down dead before he could touch her

He asked them whom they wanted as their superior