Saint Moses of Ethiopia Greek Orthodox Icon
High quality byzantine Orthodox handmade icons. Made in Greece and constructed in the traditional Orthodox manner.
Iconographer: Holy Monastery Dormition of Theotokos, Parnitha
Saint Moses, who is also called Moses the Black, was a slave, but because of
his evil life, his master cast him out, and he became a ruthless thief,
dissolute in all his ways. Later, however, coming to repentance, he converted,
and took up the monastic life under Saint Isidore of Scete. He gave himself
over to prayer and the mortification of the carnal mind with such diligence
that he later became a priest of exemplary virtue. He was revered by all for
his lofty ascetical life and for his great humility. Once the Fathers in Scete
asked Moses to come to an assembly to judge the fault of a certain brother, but
he refused. When they insisted, he took a basket which had a hole in it, filled
it with sand, and carried it on his shoulders. When the Fathers saw him coming,
they asked him what the basket might mean. He answered, "My sins run out
behind me, and I do not see them, and I am come this day to judge failings
which are not mine." When a barbarian tribe was coming to Scete, Moses,
conscious that he himself had slain other men when he was a thief, awaited them
and was willingly slain by them with six other monks, at the end of the fourth
century. He was a contemporary of Saint Arsenius the Great.
The icon reproductions are created by iconographer monks of various Greek Orthodox monasteries in Greece and all images are approved replications by the Greek Orthodox Church. As icons are considered to be the Gospel in image, these images are accurate and true Orthodox renderings, not second-hand interpretations. The icon images are mounted on solid wood and protected from tarnish with a varnish finish that seals in colors and creates a shiny luster.
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