St. Stephanie icon Mounted on wood Sizes:3 X 5

St. Stephanie icon Mounted on wood Sizes:3 X 5Orthodox icon of Saint Stephanie. Commemorated November 11. Saints Victor and Stephanie contested in Damascus in 160, during the reign of Antoninus Pius. The pagans arrested Saint Victor as a Christian and cut off his fingers, put out his eyes, and beheaded him. As Saint Stephanie, the wife of a certain soldier, and a Christian, saw Victor's nobility in his sufferings, she loudly cried out to call him blessed and to say that she saw two crowns

He was thrown onto bushes with thorns and there delivered his soul to the Creator

Alexandra raised her daughter in Christian piety

everything known by Christians about Jesus Christ and His teachings

After the death of the emperor Valens (378)

because of her virtuous life

Seeing the way things were

psychological or moral terms

And finally

Hope was ten

as many hymns are ascribed to different authors in different manuscripts and are often identified as anonymous

Soon their daughter also died

and Power now and ever and unto ages of ages