St. Victor of Damascus icon Mounted on wood Sizes:6 X 8

St. Victor of Damascus icon Mounted on wood Sizes:6 X 8Orthodox icon of Saint Victor of Damascus (Saint for the name Victoria too). Copy of a contemporary icon, made by the iconographer Themis Petrou. Commemorated November 11. Saints Victor served as a soldier in the Roman army during the reign of Emperor Antoninus (138 161). He was converted to Christianity and was eventually tortured. Many idolaters accepted Christianity through his witness. The pagans arrested Saint Victor as a Christian and cut off

Theodota and her three sons accepted martyrdom

about twenty years

the faces display a precise and delicate representation of forms and exquisitely drawn details

which was not the response the Pharisees were expecting

The final city to which the Apostle came was the city of Patra

its direct connection with the marvelous wall-paintings of the Chora Monastery and the high quality of the painting allow us to attribute this work to an important workshop based in Constantinople in the first half of the 14th century

Licinius had instituted a decree for the annihilation of all Christians who refused to sacrifice to idols

and with two wings they covered their feet

When the officer's family heard this story

His father Alexander was a soldier

she was torn asunder

coming to meet him