Theotokos "The Burning Bush" icon Mounted on wood Sizes:6 X 8

Theotokos "The Burning Bush" icon Mounted on wood Sizes:6 X 8Orthodox icon of Theotokos "The Burning Bush", tempera on wood, St. Catherine's Monastery Sinai, 7th century. An icon with composite scenes. In a single scene this icon represents Moses knelling before the Burning Bush, inside which the Virgin and the Child appear, and Moses receiving the Tablets of the Law on the peak of the Mountain Sinai. The scene is witnessed from one side by St. Catherine.

The composition is simple

one on thy right hand and one on thy left

His father did not persecute Christians in the lands he governed

Orthodox icon of Saint Great-martyr Euphemia (1)

as it is said

They were rejoicing because they were deemed worthy to confess Christ

Of those remaining

When she refused to enter into marriage with the son of the city official Symphronius

until he came to a mountain in the desert near the Red Sea

not only for his military achievements

remembering her sins

Everyone was certain that St George would offer sacrifice to the gods