Icon St. Phanurius polisher

Icon of Saint Fanourios polished with handmade silk screen printing on a polished gold background in various dimensions.

Celebration 27 August

Saint Fanourios is one of the most beloved saints to all the Greek people, who every year honor and celebrate his memory on August 27th.

This much-loved saint could be described without a doubt as a gift from God, because he was and remained unknown for many centuries. He became known by the accidental discovery of his icon in the 14th century AD in Rhodes, when they were digging up old houses in the southern part of the old wall. An ancient temple with many destroyed icons was found there and among them the well-preserved icon on which the then Metropolitan of Rhodes Nilos II of Diasporinos (1355 – 1369 AD) read the name of the saint “St. Fano”.

In the icon, the Saint was represented as a young soldier, holding a cross in his right hand, on which there was a lighted candle, and around the icon the 12 martyrdoms. In these the Martyr was presented: Standing among soldiers and being tried by the ruler; being struck by them with stones in the mouth and head; being scourged again by them, spread out on the ground; sitting naked and having his body scraped with iron nails; being shut up in prison; being tortured before the ruler’s tribune; being burned in the parts of his body with lighted lamps; to be bound in a dumbbell and tortured; to lie among beasts unharmed; to lie on the ground and have the body pressed against a large stone; to be in a pagan temple carrying in his palms burning coals and the devil escaping into the air with lamentations; to stand in a furnace of fire with his hands raised in the shape of fetters.

The ancient temple where the icon was found was rebuilt, after many efforts, by Nilos and dedicated it to the name of Saint Fanourios, who, it seems, composed its Sequence.

The love and honor with which Saint Fanourios is surrounded became the reason for the creation of various beautiful and reverent traditions among our people, among which is the festive custom of the “Pie of Saint Fanourios”, or “Fanuropitta”, which takes place on the eve of his feast day. This pie is usually small and round like a small loaf of bread, is distributed to the faithful and is sometimes made to reveal a lost object or a lost cause, or even to reveal health to a patient.There is also a tradition that with this pie a mention is made of his mother, but for what reason is unknown.

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