Archangel Gabriel Icon (5) Mounted on wood Sizes:17 x 22

Archangel Gabriel Icon (5) Mounted on wood Sizes:17 x 22Orthodox Icon of Archangel Gabriel, Gabriil (3). Commemorated November 8th. Gabriel, the holy Archistrategos (Leader of the Heavenly Hosts), is a faithful servant of the Almighty God. He announced the future Incarnation of the Son of God to those of the Old Testament; he inspired the Prophet Moses to write the Pentateuch (first five books of the Old Testament), he announced the coming tribulations of the Chosen People to the Prophet Daniel (Dan. 8:

and ten years on the mountain of Troe near Memphis

angels appeared in a dream to the igumen

Miraculously she was called into a Church by the Theotokos and was transformed

also visited him

filled with the Holy Spirit

On Paphos they came across a sorcerer and false prophet named Bar-Jesus

He therefore dug out a deep cave under his cell

Moses the brigand spent several years leading a sinful life

Christians took up the bodies of the holy sisters and reverently buried them at the so-called Warm Springs at Pythias (Bithynia)

James restored it under the supervision of the Elder Ignatius

Commemorated July 26

Joseph became abbot in the Monastery of Koutloumousiou