Saint Moses icon, Handmade Greek Orthodox icon of Saint Moses the Black / Strong, Byzantine art wall hanging on wood plaque icon, religious decor

This wonderful icon has been created with the technique of lithography and has a double varnish to ensure waterproof and duration in time. The creator of this icon has learned the canonization of iconography in workshops of the Monasteries of Mount Athos, where he was taught both the technique of lithography and the process of handmade artificial ageing.


The power of repentance has transformed this infidel slave, St. Moses the Black (330-405 A.D.), who was a murderer, adulterer and robber into a great Desert Father, teacher, comforter, and priest, who wrote rules for the monks, and a martyr-saint whose name continues to be mentioned on the altar and in our prayers.+

St. Moses the Black’s youthful days saw him not only committing violence against other peoples’ property, but also against their persons. This man’s impressive strength enabled him to exercise great control over those people and things he set his sight upon. Such a man well-versed in physical violence and self-defense, one would imagine would have been well-positioned to set up defenses at his monastery to ward off the invading Berbers. However, the true Christian that he was, St. Moses showed the depth to which God’s Grace had taken on his soul in his final counsel. The man of violence decades before was suddenly saying at the approach of danger the precise words of Christ: “All that take the sword shall perish with the sword.” In a world fraught with danger and offenses of all kinds, we must remember that with every opportunity to retaliate there is an opportunity to bear witness—to bear witness that our victory is already won, our victory is at hand. We need not take the sword, for we can assuredly offer the other cheek. Indeed, by Christ’s own admission and example: “Blessed are the peacemakers…”

His feast day is on August 28.

The item is sold without the stand depicted.