Theotokos and Saint Anna icon Mounted on wood Sizes:4 X 6

Theotokos and Saint Anna icon Mounted on wood Sizes:4 X 6Orthodox icon of Theotokos (Panaghia)with Saint Anna, contemporary icon. Iconographer Dionysios Fentas (Thessaloniki, Greece)

tried with threats of exile and of torments to bend the Saint to their own confession

asked her to marry him

The faithful pray to this Saint for ailments of the teeth

with which he had written in favour of the holy icons and which had been cut off by the malice of the Eikonomachi

The arrogant empress would not relent

Preaching in the remote areas of Albania

the two brothers left for the ancient Monastery of Stavrovouni

Bishop of Kiteia on Cyprus

Since neither flattery nor torment had any effect

The line attributed to the Emperor is the line those very feet whose sound Eve heard at the dusk in Paradise and hid herself in fear Kassiani emerged when the emperor was gone

and to Asia Minor and the Pontine region

and the statue of Zeus crashed to the floor and smashed into little pieces