Icon of Saint Savvas the Sanctified icon of high quality silkscreen with “vivid” colors and 22K gold background.
The image is accompanied by a hard cardboard box
His memory is commemorated on December 5.
Saint Savvas came from the village of Moutalaski in Cappadocia and was the son of pious parents, John and Sophia.
From a very early age he met the divine councils and decided to dedicate himself to monastic life. He had so much faith that he once got into a fire oven from which he came out unscathed with the help of God.
When he was eighteen years old he left the monastery of the Flavians and went to Jerusalem. From there he headed to the desert of the East to meet the Great Euthymius. Efthymios sent him to a convent, which was headed by Saint Theoktistos.
Saint Savvas during his stay in the convent shone because of his character and virtues. In fact, he was so serious and moral – despite his young age – that he was reprimanded as a child by Elder Efthymios.
Saint Savvas, as he grew older, nourished his spirit more and more, which is why he was honored with the gift of miracles. He used this gift in the service of the poor and the sick and thus performed very important works.
For the sanctity of his life and for his great fame, he had been sent twice by the Patriarch of Jerusalem as ambassador to Constantinople, to King Anastasios and then to Justinian.
At the age of ninety-four, in 534 AD, he ascended to the Lord in peace.
In 584 AD, the Relic of Saint Sava was restored incorruptible when his tomb was opened for the burial of Abbot Cassian. It was first preserved in his Monastery and then transported to Istanbul, during the period of the Arab invasions.
There are two traditions for the time of his arrival in Venice. According to the first, the Relic had been transferred to Constantinople, from where in 1026 AD. it was stolen by the Venetian nobleman Peter Centranico (later Doge, 1026 – 1031 AD), in the days of the Doge Tribunio Menio (982 – 1026 AD), transported to Venice and deposited in the Church of St. Anthony.
According to the second tradition, the Relic was never transported to Constantinople, but was preserved in St. John of Accra, from where it was transported by the Genoese to their rival city of Venice. in 1257 AD the Venetians succeeded in transporting the Relic to Venice.
The presence of the Relic of Saint Sava in Venice is confirmed by the relevant confession of the Sava monk Sophronius to the Metropolitan of Russia Saint Makarios, in 1547 AD.
In 1965 AD, following the actions of Patriarch Benedict, the Roman Catholic Church returned the Relic to the Patriarchate of Jerusalem and has been kept in its Monastery ever since.
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