St. Sisoes the Great icon Mounted on wood Sizes:8 X 11

St. Sisoes the Great icon Mounted on wood Sizes:8 X 11Orthodox icon of Saint Sisoes the Great. Copy of an icon of 15th century. Commemorated July 6th. Saint Sisoes the Great (+ 429) was a solitary monk, pursuing asceticism in the Egyptian desert in a cave sanctified by the prayerful labors of his predecessor, St Anthony the Great (January 17). For his sixty years of labor in the desert, St Sisoes attained to sublime spiritual purity and he was granted the gift of wonderworking, so that by his prayers he

He himself said that he gave them no instructions of his own

the Epistles of the Apostle Paul)

Saint Luke would practice his medical skills

all the while perfecting himself in monastic feats

thunder boomed

they acceded to his monastic desire

they sent the Apostle John off to imprisonment to the island of Patmos

settling far off from the other monastic dwellings

The Evangelist John

Orthodox icon of Saint Anthony the Great

The Lord heard her and granted healing

Many researchers have spent years studying this structure