Icon Saint Theonas silkscreen image of excellent quality with ”vivid” colors and gold background 22K.
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His memory is commemorated on 4 March but due to the mourning of the Lent, it is also transferred to the 4th Sunday of Lent in order to pay him the proper honours.
Saint Theonas I, Archbishop of Thessaloniki, was a disciple of Saint James the New Martyr. They say that Saint Theonas was from Mytilene, others say that he was named after him because he spent a lot of time in Plomari.
We do not know much about his life before he went to Mount Athos.
He practiced at first in the Monastery of Pantokrator, as an elder. Later he went in the company of Saint James the New Martyr to a place above the Monastery of Iviron, to the monastery of St. James the Baptist.
In the year 1518 A.D. Saint James with the company of six of his disciples, among them Theonas, left the Skete of the Baptist and went to the interior of Athos, but after a vision the Elder decided to leave Mount Athos. They passed through Thessaloniki, Thessaly, passed through the castle of Petra (Platamonos) and Meteora and settled in the monastery of Timios Prodromos, in Aetolia, where they stayed for a year.
Saint Theonas was sent by Saint James to the Bishop of Arta, Akakios, to give him a letter of authority for the catechism of the Christians of the region. But because St. James was a layman, the Bishop of Arta, Akakios, envied him.
Thus he promoted St. James to the Turks as a revolutionary. The Bey of Trikala arrested Iakovos and two of his disciples, Deacon Iakovos and the monk Dionysios, and took them to Trikala, where they remained in prison for forty days. Theonas and Markianos visited them and asked about the fate of the monastery and the brothers after the death of Iakovos. James told them to go to a monastery near Thessaloniki. He also sent a letter to his disciples, saying that his successor would be Theonas and abbot of the monastery of the forerunner.
On November 1, 1519 AD, Saint James and his two disciples, James and Dionysius, after being horribly tortured in Didymoteicho and Adrianople, were hanged.
Saint Theonas and his entourage left the monastery the following year and went to Mount Athos, to the monastery of Simonopetra.
The abbot of the monastery of Agia Anastasia is said to have been Saint Theonas, until 1535 AD.
In 1538 A.D. Saint Theonas is mentioned as the Bishop of Thessaloniki.
The Saint’s presence on the throne of Thessaloniki was short-lived because in April 1542 AD it is reported that he had died. Therefore, he must have fallen asleep around the middle of the year 1541 AD.
The holy relic of Saint Theonas, immediately after his death, was transferred and buried in the monastery of Agia Anastasia.
In 1821 AD it was transferred to Skopelos and from there to the monastery of Esfigmenos on Mount Athos and again to the monastery of Agia Anastasia, where it is kept until today.
The relic of the Saint is without damage in the Monastery of Saint Anastasia Vasiliki in Thessaloniki.
Part of the Holy Relic of the Saint is located in the Monastery of Kykkos in Cyprus.
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