Apostles' Council Icon Mounted on wood Sizes:3 x 5

Apostles' Council Icon Mounted on wood Sizes:3 x 5Orthodox Icon of the Council (Synaxis) of the Twelve Apostles of Christ. Commemorated on June 30. The Synaxis of the Glorious and All Praiseworthy Twelve Apostles of Christ appears to be an ancient Feast. The Church honors each of the Twelve Apostles on separate dates during the year, and has established a general commemoration for all of them on the day after the commemoration of the Glorious and First Ranked among the Apostles Peter and Paul. SAINT

and at Gethsemane where the Savior prayed before His sufferings and where the Mother of God was buried after her death

but not the holy icon

sufferings

spent with extreme ascetical practices and continual labors

Bishop of Smyrna (February 23)

Those having separated themselves from the unity of the Church do not have true life in themselves

The "Pelogonitissa" shows Virgin Mary gazing pensively over the head of the bare-legged Child who rises in a serpentine twist

When it was found

an accursed man am I

Many miracles have occurred at the spot

Pope of Rome

Arius was a presbyter who denied the divinity of Christ