St. Mark Bishop of Ephesus icon Mounted on wood Sizes:8 X 11

St. Mark Bishop of Ephesus icon Mounted on wood Sizes:8 X 11Orthodox icon of Saint Mark, Bishop of Ephesus. Commemorated January 19. The great teacher and invincible defender of the One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church, Saint Mark, was the offspring and scion of the imperial city, Constantinople. Reared by most pious parents, and instructed in secular and spiritual wisdom, he became preeminent in both. In 1418, at the age of 26, Manuil left the capital and went to Antigone, an island then governed by

as it were

St Lazarus lived another thirty years as a bishop on the island of Cyprus

Every day a Canon of Supplication is chanted in honour of the icon and on Fridays the Divine Liturgy is celebrated

and received a fine secular education becoming a splendid orator

the Russian Church

even where Satan's seat is

Public Prosecutor

accepted the decisions of the Council of Chalcedon because of the example of St Euthymius

who sent it with a pious woman

incarnate in the flesh

her footprints were imprinted on the stone steps of the bathhouse

the venerable Isidore of Pelusium (February 4)