Icon of Agios Stylianos silk screen printing of excellent quality with “vivid” colors and 22K gold background. The image is accompanied by a hard cardboard box.
Saint Stylianos is a saint from Asia Minor who lived between the 4th and 6th centuries. He was born in Edirne, Paphlagonia, Asia Minor. He was the son of wealthy parents, he was taught early on by them to be restrained and to consider money as a means of relieving and caring for the poor and sick.
After he was raised that way, and his parents died, he divided all his inheritance and went as an ascetic in the desert. There he met other ascetics, who lived with them with brotherly love, Christian condescension and mercy. He never saddened anyone, his great joy in fact, was to restore peace to troubled souls. The fame of his wonderful ascetic life reached the cities, and many rushed to find him to ask him for his spiritual instructions.
Saint Stylianos, despite his deserted life, nurtured affection and sympathy for the children, whom the Lord loved so much. If, he said, humility is the foundation of virtues, childhood by nature is more virtuous than the greatest of philosophers. Many times the parents brought their children to him, and then the joy of the saint was very great. Rewarding this sacred feeling of his, God endowed the saint with the gift of healing sick children and making childless childless women.
Saint Stylianos slept full of days and virtues.
The Orthodox Church commemorates him on November 26.
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