Icon of Saint Charalambos

Icon of Saint Charalambos. Hagiography icon with decoration and gold background 22K.

Celebration 10 February

Saint Charalambos was a priest in Magnesia of Asia Minor and lived during the reign of Septimius Severus (193 – 211 AD). When in the year 198 A.D. Severus unleashed an unrelenting persecution against Christians, the prefect of Magnesia, Lucian, arrested the Saint and asked him to deny his faith.

But not only did the Saint not do this, but instead he confessed to the prefect his commitment to Christ and declared with confidence that no matter what torture he was subjected to, he would not deny the faith of the Church.

Then Lucian’s dark and carnal soul increased its anger and ordered the horrible torture of the old priest to begin. First they stripped him naked, and Lucian himself, taking his sword, tried to wound the body of the saint.

But his hands were cut off and remained hanging on the body of the Martyr and only after the prayer of the Saint were they glued back to the body and the ruler became healthy. Seeing this miracle of the Saint, many of the demons believed in the true God.

With grief in his mind and atrocity in his heart, the prefect gave orders that the saint should be pilloried and dragged through the city with a bridle. Finally, he ordered the beheading of the Saint, who by his martyrdom received the sin crown of glory at the age of 113.

There are no specific testimonies about the relics of Saint Charalambos. The nun Theotekni Aghiostefanitissa, in her Synaxar of Saint Charalambos (1995 AD), records information about the Saint’s honorary casket, which is kept in the Monastery of Saint Stephen of Meteora.

According to this information, the Saint’s Kara was donated to the monastery by the Wallachian ruler Vladislav, in 1412 – 1413 AD, together with two estates in the Butoi Metochi Butoj.

No information has been preserved about the time and circumstances under which this valuable relic was found in Wallachia. In addition, parts of the sacred cart of Saint Charalambos are also kept in the pilgrimage church of the same name in the town of Thespia in Boeotia.

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