Exaltation of the Holy Cross Icon Mounted on wood Sizes:3 x 5

Exaltation of the Holy Cross Icon Mounted on wood Sizes:3 x 5Orthodox Icon of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross. Commemorated September 14th. After 300 years under the Emperor Constantine the Great (306 337), Life Creating Cross and the Holy Sepulcher were again discovered and opened for veneration. Desiring to find the Holy Cross, St Constantine sent his mother Helen (May 21), to Jerusalem, giving her a letter to St Macarius, Patriarch of Jerusalem. Upon arrival she gave orders to destroy the pagan temple and

The tradition is not giving us any information about the icon

Panteleimon's servants Laurence

Because the man was so insistent

and it was they who announced the glad tidings to the Disciples

But under the influence of the tearful entreaties of their pagan parents (Tranquillinus and Marcia)

Many miracles were worked through his prayer: he raised a dead youth

the Saint to become the hegumen of the Monastery of the Holy Mother of God in Varnakova

He had not lost all hope of influencing St George

As we were passing the coast of that island

He was an iconoclast

He also was secretary to the Seventh Ecumenical Council

St Eustathius returned to Rome with them and again became a general