Ss. Athanasios and Cyril icon (2) Mounted on wood Sizes:5 X 7

Ss. Athanasios and Cyril icon (2) Mounted on wood Sizes:5 X 7Orthodox icon of Saints Athanasius and Cyril, Patriarchs of Alexandria (2). Commemorated January 18th. NOTE: the sizes are approximately. In the half century after the First Ecumenical Council held in Nicea in 325, if there was one man whom the Arians feared and hated more intensely than any other, as being able to lay bare the whole error of their teaching, and to marshal, even from exile or hiding, the beleaguered forces of the Orthodox, it was

He passed through all the degrees of the priesthood

Three centuries after

he was tonsured as a monk and given the name Nikitas

He confessed this to Fr

Accepting the appointment

Together with this he predicts the historical fate also of the other nations bordering the Jews

Her body was conveyed by two angels from Alexandria to Mount Sinai

and so he spent the rest of his life in celibacy

serving as a footrest for the Mother of God

defeating his opponents with the help of God

but combined pastoral service with deeds of charity

and then in Germany