This icon of the Mother of God is of the Hodigitria type, and is found in the Xenophontos Monastery on Mount Athos.
Saint Callistus I, Patriarch of Constantinople, at first struggled on Athos under the spiritual guidance of St Gregory of Sinai (August 8), whose Life he wrote.
Saint Leucius the Confessor was born in the city of Alexandria of pious parents named Eudykius and Euphrosyne. They gave their son the name Eutropius.
Sts Athanasius the Reader and Demetrian the deacon suffered martyrdom along with St Aristocles during the persecution under the emperor Maximian Galerius (305-311).
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Sts Demetrian the deacon and Athanasius the Reader suffered martyrdom along with St Aristocles during the persecution under the emperor Maximian Galerius (305-311). .
