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Saint Simeon the Stylite

4. september 2018

Saint Simeon the Stylite was born in the Cappadocian village of Sisan of Christian parents, Sisotian and Martha. At thirteen years of age he began to tend his father’s flock of sheep. He devoted himself attentively and with love to this, his first obedience.

Icon Lord's Transfiguration on Mount Tabor

4. august 2018

A large, well-preserved, elaborate icon shows the event of the Lord's Transfiguration on Mount Tabor (Matthew 17:1-8; Luke 9:28-36). When the iconographer was portraying this mystery, he himself had to experience the ability to see the world through the eyes of faith, through the look enlightened by divine grace in spiritual contemplation.