St Joseph The Hesychast - 6 x 8 (Cherry) Gilding Options:Not Gilded This 12 x 16 icon

This 12 x 16 icon of St Matushka Olga of Alaska in cherry is a perfect larger sized icon to have in your icon corner at home or on your mantle at home

Most notable on the icon are the two different faces of Christ

After her conversion she fled to the Judean desert where she lived as an ascetic for 47 years

she is there

St John goes by many names

St Joseph The Hesychast - 6 x 8 (Cherry) Gilding Options:Not Gilded This 12 x 16 iconSt Joseph The Hesychast born in 1897 was a monk and elder on Mt Athos. He practiced the form of prayer called hesychasm. Which was the continual prayer of the Jesus Prayer. At the age of 23 he read the lives of the Church Fathers and it forever changed him. He would then move to Mt Athos in 1921. He would go on to meet Elder Ephraim of Arizona who would take St Joseph as his spiritual father. St Joseph fought against a demon of fornication for 8 years