Saint Photios the Great Greek Orthodox Icon
High quality byzantine Orthodox handmade icons. Made in
Greece and constructed in the traditional Orthodox manner.
Iconographer: Mar. Ginala
Commemorates on: February 6
He was born in Constantinople, where he excelled in the foremost imperial
ministries, while ever practicing a virtuous and godly life. An upright and
honorable man of singular learning and erudition, he was raised to the apostolic,
ecumenical, and patriarchal throne of Constantinople in the year 857. The many
struggles that this thrice-blessed one undertook for the Orthodox Faith against
the Manichaeans, the Iconoclasts, and other heretics, and the attacks and
assaults that he endured from Nicholas I, the haughty and ambitious Pope of
Rome, and the great persecutions and distresses he suffered, are beyond number.
Contending against the Latin error of the filioque, that is, the doctrine that
the Holy Spirit proceeds from both the Father and the Son, he demonstrated
clearly with his Mystagoagy on the Holy Spirit how the filioque destroys the
unity and equality of the Trinity. He has left us many theological writings,
panegyric homilies, and epistles, including one to Boris, the Sovereign of
Bulgaria, in which he set forth for him the history and teachings of the Seven
Ecumenical Councils. Having tended the Church of Christ in holiness and in an
evangelical manner, and with fervent zeal having rooted out all the tares of
every alien teaching, he departed to the Lord in the Monastery of the Armenians
on February 6, 891.
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.
Icons ship direct to you from Greece. Please allow 10-20 days for delivery.