St. Myron the Wonderworker, Bishop of Crete icon Mounted on wood Sizes:4 X 6

St. Myron the Wonderworker, Bishop of Crete icon Mounted on wood Sizes:4 X 6Orthodox icon of Saint Myron, Bishop of Heraklion Crete Commemorated August 8th. Saint Myron, Bishop of Crete, a wonderworker, in his youth was a family man, and worked as a farmer. He was known for his goodness, and he assisted everyone who turned to him for help. Once, thieves burst in upon his threshing floor, and Saint Myron himself helped them lift a sack of grain upon their shoulders. By his generosity the saint so shamed the thieves, that in

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Icon made by iconographer Demetrios Hraniotis (Greece)

purity and lack of covetousness aroused envy among his conceited and sin-loving peers

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and he was sentenced to death by beheading in the year 312

and for three months afterwards the door of the storeroom could not be shut because of the abundace of bread

Kalliope received the incorrupt crown of glory

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So the Elder turned his sights to another area in his search for real estate

Pretending that he was charmed by her youth and beauty

Akyndinos wrote a series of tracts in which he declared St Gregory and the Athonite monks guilty of causing church disorders