Saint Penelope icon, Handmade Greek Orthodox icon of St Penelope, Byzantine art wall hanging icon wood plaque, religious decor

Bring the spiritual elegance of Byzantine art into your home with this exquisite, handmade Greek Orthodox icon of Saint Penelope. Crafted with reverence, this piece makes a profound addition to any prayer corner or a deeply meaningful religious gift.

Product Specifications

• Craftsmanship: This byzantine icon is a lithography with double varnish layer to ensure vivid colors and waterproof properties depicting Saint Penelope, is a god inspired artwork abiding to the Athonian technique that was gives this icon unique religious and aesthetic value.
• Display: Can be hung on a wall or placed on a flat surface.
• Display: The item is sold without the stand depicted.

The Significance of Saint Penelope

Saint Penelope was one of the forty Ascetics and students of Deacon Saint Amun, a native of Adrianople Thrace. At that time, in 305 AD, the Roman emperor Licinius had issued a decree to exterminate Christians who refused to worship idols. Agia lived and martyred in this terrible time, together with her sisters and their teacher Ammun.

These women did not succumb to the challenges of the tyrant Likinios, as a result of which they suffered horrible tortures, as it is written in the Month of September: "Memory of the Forty women martyrs, virgins and hermits and Amun deacon and their teacher". By the decision of the tyrant Licinius, "ten were thrown" into the fire, "and eight after their teacher Ammun were beheaded", another ten were killed with a sword "by mouth and heart", six were stabbed with knives and blood iron glowed in the mouth you receive to the Lord they went out ". The Orthodox Christian Church commemorates them on September 1 of each year.