St. Sophia the Ascetic icon Sizes in inches:6 x 8

St. Sophia the Ascetic icon Sizes in inches:6 x 8Orthodox icon of Saint Sophia of Kleisoura Monastery, the Ascetic. Contemporary icon. Commemorated May 6th. Sophia Saoulidi, the "ascetic of the Panagia", was born of Amanatiou and Maria Saoulidi in a village of Trebizond in Pontus of Asia Minor in 1883. She was also married there years later in 1907 to Jordan Hortokoridou, but after seven years her husband disappeared (likely not of his own will) in 1914 and she was left with a newborn son who soon

Here she was baptized by Patriarch Nectarius and entered a women's monastery

gave birth to a son (Ichabod) and died with the words:

Epitaphios

St Barnabas wanted to take Mark along with him

Sts Nicostratus

and acquainted them with the asceticism of the Orthodox East

In spite of his confusion

during the All Night Vigil

‘Take care of him

Bishop of Amathus

wearing a chiton and a himation

the disciple of Saint Paul