Dormition of Theotokos Icon(SSC) Silkscreen icons:6 x 8

Dormition of Theotokos Icon(SSC) Silkscreen icons:6 x 8Byzantine icon of the Dormition of Theotokos or "falling asleep" of the Mother of Jesus Christ. Commemorated August 15. This Orthodox icon is made with the specific technique of silkscreen on real gold foil. The Feast of the Dormition commemorates the repose (dormition kimisis) or "falling asleep" of the Mother of Jesus Christ, our Lord. It also commemorates the translation or assumption into heaven of the body of the Theotokos. Christ is shown

While on his way to visit the earthly king

When the empress Eudoxia connived to confiscate the last properties of the widow and children of a disgraced dignitary

and settled near the Lavra of Saint Athanasius

that we also

in all of the feasts of the Virgin Mother of God in the Church

then he left

with his just complaint

Commemorated October 21st

'My fathers and benefactors

His father was a military commander

He assured the youth that he might be on a par of intellect with the greatest of the philosophers Plato

A very sweet and strong aroma