Icon of Saint Charalambos

Icon Saint Charalambos silkscreen of excellent quality with “” vivid “” colors and gold background 22K. The picture comes with a hard cardboard box.

It is celebrated on 10 February each year.

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. However, not only did the Saint not do this, but on the contrary, he confessed to the Prefect his commitment to Christ and declared in all sincerity 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 left hanging on the body of the Martyr, and only after the Saint’s prayer were they glued back to the body and the ruler was restored to health. 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 holy Kara of the Saint, 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. No information has been preserved about the time and circumstances under which this precious relic was found in Wallachia. In addition, parts of the sacred cart of St. Charalambos are also kept in the pilgrimage church of the same name in the town of Thespia in Boeotia.