• Saint Porphyrios icon, Handmade Greek Orthodox icon of St Elder Porfyrios, Byzantine art wall hanging wood plaque, religious decor TheHolyArt
  • Saint Porphyrios icon, Handmade Greek Orthodox icon of St Elder Porfyrios, Byzantine art wall hanging wood plaque, religious decor TheHolyArt
  • Saint Porphyrios icon, Handmade Greek Orthodox icon of St Elder Porfyrios, Byzantine art wall hanging wood plaque, religious decor TheHolyArt
  • Saint Porphyrios icon, Handmade Greek Orthodox icon of St Elder Porfyrios, Byzantine art wall hanging wood plaque, religious decor TheHolyArt
  • Saint Porphyrios icon, Handmade Greek Orthodox icon of St Elder Porfyrios, Byzantine art wall hanging wood plaque, religious decor TheHolyArt
  • Saint Porphyrios icon, Handmade Greek Orthodox icon of St Elder Porfyrios, Byzantine art wall hanging wood plaque, religious decor TheHolyArt
  • Saint Porphyrios icon, Handmade Greek Orthodox icon of St Elder Porfyrios, Byzantine art wall hanging wood plaque, religious decor TheHolyArt
  • Saint Porphyrios icon, Handmade Greek Orthodox icon of St Elder Porfyrios, Byzantine art wall hanging wood plaque, religious decor TheHolyArt
  • Saint Porphyrios icon, Handmade Greek Orthodox icon of St Elder Porfyrios, Byzantine art wall hanging wood plaque, religious decor TheHolyArt
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Saint Porphyrios icon, Handmade Greek Orthodox icon of St Elder Porfyrios, Byzantine art wall hanging wood plaque, religious decor

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

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This wonderful icon has been created with the technique of lithography and has a double varnish with gold tones 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.


St Porphyrios (Bairaktaris) the Kapsokalyvite (1906-1991) was an Athonite hieromonk known for his gifts of spiritual discernment. He was officially recognized as a saint by the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople in 2013. His feast day is December 2.


Early life

He was born February 7 in the little village of St. John Karystia, in the province of Evoia. His parents, Leonidas and Eleni Bairaktaris (daughter of Antonios Lambrou), christened him Evangelos. He was fourth out of five siblings. Only his youngest sister is still alive and is a nun.


His family was quite poor and so Evangelos left school at an early age to assist his family to make more money. At some stage, he found a job working at a grocer store in Chalkidiki and also in Piraeus. He was taught to pray the Paraklesis by his father and all other religious matters.


Monastic life

Later tonsured with his monastic name of Nikitas. He became a monk at the age or fourteen of fifteen. He served in the skete of Kafsokalyvia, in the Cell of St. George, under two spiritual fathers: Fr. Panteimon and Fr. Ionnakios. Forced by pleurisy to depart the Holy Mountain, he returned to his birthplace, where he was unexpectedly elevated to the priesthood at the age of 21 by Porphyrios III, Archbishop of Mount Sinai and Raithu. With the outbreak of World War II he became a hospital chaplain in Athens, in which post he continued for three decades (1940-1970). His later years were devoted to the construction of the Holy Convent of the Transfiguration of the Savior. After 1984 he returned to Mount Athos, oc

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