Icon of Saint Charalambos silkscreen of excellent quality with “vivid” colors and 22K gold background. The image is accompanied by a hard cardboard box.
It celebrates on the 10th of February of each year.
Saint Charalambos He was a priest in Magnesia, Asia Minor and lived during the reign of Septimius Severus (193 – 211 AD). When the year 198 AD Severus unleashed a fierce persecution against the Christians, the governor of Magnesia Lucianos, arrested the Saint and asked him to deny his faith. But the Saint not only did not do this, but on the contrary confessed to the prefect his devotion to Christ and declared bluntly that in any torture he would not deny the faith of the Church.
Then Lucianus’ darkened and carnal soul intensified its rage and ordered the horrible tortures to begin on the old priest.
First he was stripped naked and Lucian himself, taking his sword tried to hurt the body of the Saint. However, his hands were cut off and left hanging on the body of the Hieromartyr and only after a prayer from the Saint were they glued back to the body and the ruler became healthy. Seeing this miracle of the Saint, many of the executioners believed in the true God.
With the frustration in mind and the brutality in the heart, the prefect ordered them to escort the Saint and drag him through the city with a bridle. Finally, he ordered the beheading of the Saint, who with his martyrdom received the amaranth crown of glory at the age of 113.
There are no specific testimonies about the relics of Saint Charalambos. The nun Theotekni Agiostefanitissa in Synaxari of Agios Charalambos (1995 AD), records information about the holy Cara of the Saint, which is kept in the Monastery of Agios Stefanos in Meteora. According to this information, the Holy Cross was donated to the Monastery by the Ruler of Wallachia Vladislav, in 1412 – 1413 AD, along with two estates in Metochi Butoi. No information has been saved about the time and circumstances under which this valuable relic was found in Wallachia. Also, parts of the chariot of Agios Charalambos are kept in the homonymous pilgrimage church of Thespia town of Viotia.
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