First Ecumenical Council of Nikea icon (2) Mounted on wood Sizes:3 X 5

First Ecumenical Council of Nikea icon (2) Mounted on wood Sizes:3 X 5Orthodox icon of the First Ecumenical Council, by Michael Damaskinos (1545), Iraklion Crete. Commemorated May 29th and the 7th Sunday after Pascha.

They went to Egypt to board a ship sailing for Jerusalem

cleansed the wound of all the pus and then wrapped it with a cloth

the saint made the rounds of the pagan temples and shrines in the city of Myra and its surroundings

They set up a court at the pagan temple of Apollo

and she also told Stamatelos Kangades

Equal of the Apostles

Her church in the Peloponnese has become a great place of pilgrimage in Greece

St John was a splendid preacher

St George pierced the throat of the serpent with his spear and trampled it with his horse

in 685-690

The saint remains patient which angers the soldiers

because the Saint