Saint Paisios of Mount Athos – Handcrafted Icon – Mount Athos

Description

Αγιογραφία Σε Κορμό Ελιάς Δια Χειρός Πατήρ Βασίλειου

An exceptional icon depicting Saint Paisios of Mount Athos. The icon is entirely hand-painted by the iconographer, Athonite monk Father Vasileios, who resides at the Holy Cell of Saint Anthony in the Holy Monastery of Philotheou. The saint’s halo is adorned with gold leaf. Father Vasileios, respecting the Athonite tradition, creates unique icons as a form of ministry.

Arsenios Eznepidis, as was his secular name, was born in Farasa, Cappadocia. On August 7, 1924, one week before they left for Greece, as part of the population exchange between Greece and Turkey, he was baptized by the parish priest of Arsenios, whom the Orthodox Church recognized as a Saint in 1988.

The classification of Agios Paisios as a saint of the Orthodox Church was carried out by the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople on January 13, 2015, while the Orthodox Church celebrates his memory on July 12. In 2017, he was declared the patron saint of the military weapon of the Transmissions, by decision of the Holy Synod of the Church of Greece. He spent his last years in the cell of Panagouda on Mount Athos, where crowds of people visited him to listen to him and receive his blessing. He lived an intense ascetic life, with minimal rest of 2 to 3 hours a day. After his death, he was buried in the Holy Hermitage of Saint John the Theologian in Souroti, Thessaloniki.

The icon is available upon order.

Dimensions: 15.5 x 34.5 x 2 cm.