Lamentation icon (4) Mounted on wood Sizes:4 X 6

Lamentation icon (4) Mounted on wood Sizes:4 X 6Orthodox icon of the Lamentation, (4). Icon of the 13th cent. Feast Day: Holy Friday

Tradition asserts that

Reference: Orthodox Antiochian Church

and may hint at the style of the lost secular art of the empire

His mother Emily (commemorated July 19) and his grandmother Macrina (Jan

Contemporary Orthodox Christian icon of Jesus Christ as The Great Hierarch

Saints Victor served as a soldier in the Roman army during the reign of Emperor Antoninus (138-161)

The disciples of this righteous man took his sacred incorrupt remains and transferred them to his own monastery

As the fruit of the prayer of his childless parents

Mother of Saint John the Baptist

and an abundance of fruit

since winter was approaching and his health was getting worse

At first every tenth man was put to death hoping to bring the other to obey out of fear