Saint Nectarios Greek Orthodox Icon
High quality byzantine Orthodox handmade icons. Made in Greece and constructed in the traditional Orthodox manner.
Iconographer: Holy Monastery Paraklitos, Oropos
Commemorates on: November 9
Saint Nectarios was born in Selyvria of Thrace on October 1, 1846. After
putting himself through school in Constantinople with much hard labor, he
became a monk on Chios in 1876, receiving the monastic name of Lazarus; because
of his virtue, a year later he was ordained deacon, receiving the new name of
Nectarius. Under the patronage of Patriarch Sophronius of Alexandria, Nectarius
went to Athens to study in 1882; completing his theological studies in 1885, he
went to Alexandria, where Patriarch Sophronius ordained him priest on March 23,
1886 in the Cathedral of Saint Sabbas, and in August of the same year, in the
Church of Saint Nicholas in Cairo, made him Archimandrite. Archimandrite
Nectarius showed much zeal both for preaching the word of God, and for the
beauty of Gods house. He greatly beautified the Church of Saint Nicholas in
Cairo, and years later, when Nectarius was in Athens, Saint Nicholas appeared
to him in a dream, embracing him and telling him he was going to exalt him very
high.
At the request of certain pious women, in 1904 he began the building of his
convent of the Holy Trinity on the island of Aegina while yet dean of the
Rizarios School; finding later that his presence there was needed, he took up
his residence on Aegina in 1908, where he spent the last years of his life, devoting
himself to the direction of his convent and to very intense prayer; he was
sometimes seen lifted above the ground while rapt in prayer.
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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