Icon Saint Ephraim

Icon Saint Ephraim silkscreen of excellent quality with “” vivid “” colors and gold acrylic background.

• It celebrates on 5 May

  Saint Ephraim, in the world Constantine Morphis, was born in Trikala on 14 September 1384 AD in an idyllic location near the Lithaios River. He was left orphaned by his father at an early age along with his seven other brothers and sisters, and his pious mother took care of them, after God. At the age of 14, in order to avoid Islamisation and the gentile bodies, he entered the then flourishing crusading Holy Monastery of the Annunciation of the Most Holy Virgin of Mount Ammon (Katharones) in Attica.

  Saint Ephraim followed Christ with fervent zeal, and excelled with the splendour of his life and the pains of his sport in the serum of Ammon of Attica (Nea Makri area). He even merited to receive the great Sacrament of the Priesthood and the gift of serving the holy altar, like an angel of God, with the fear of God and much devotion.

  In 1416 AD the Turks invaded and plundered Attica and forced the Duke of Athens to declare allegiance to the Sultan. In 1424 AD the Turks forcibly invaded the Monastery of the Annunciation and slaughtered all the Fathers of the Monastery. The Saint was absent in his cave on the mountain to pray and when he returned he was horrified to see the bodies of the Fathers. After burying them, he then mourned on his knees.

  The following year, on September 14, 1425 AD, the barbarians returned and found the Saint. They arrested him and began his martyrdoms, which ended on May 5, 1426 A.D. on a Tuesday at 9 o’clock in the morning. They hung him upside down in a tree, which still survives, nailed his feet and head, and finally his overwhelmed and martyred body was pierced with burning wood, and thus he delivered his holy soul to the coroner Christ.

  After half a millennium, the benevolent God was pleased and after many appearances of Saint Ephraim himself and many other miraculous events, all that we know today was revealed, which was confirmed by the discovery of the martyred and graceful relics of the Saint on January 3, 1950 AD.

  Saint Ephraim is celebrated twice a year, on January 3, the finding of his holy relics, and on May 5, his martyrdom.

  In Trikala he is celebrated from the Holy Church of St. Stephen, opposite which, according to tradition, was his father’s house.

  In 2011 AD, the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, with the Patriarchal and Synodal Act No.217/2-3-2011, classified Hossios Ephraim in the official Orthodox calendar.

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