Forty Martys of Sebaste Lake icon (2) Sizes in inches:8 x 11

Forty Martys of Sebaste Lake icon (2) Sizes in inches:8 x 11Orthodox icon of the Forty Martyrs of the Sebaste Lake. Copy of an icon of 14 cent. St. Catherine Monastery, Sinai. Commemorated March 9th. One of the guards set to keep watch over the martyrs beheld at this moment a supernatural brilliancy overshadowing them and at once proclaimed himself a Christian, threw off his garments, and joined the remaining thirty nine. Thus the number of forty remained complete. At daybreak, the stiffened bodies of the

who would announce the Savior

Each day the people would draw lots to feed their own children to the serpent

he emerged unharmed from a cauldron of boiling oil into which he had been thrown on orders from the torturer

When the emperor transgressed against the Church's canons

Advice which he followed very carefully until he was told to do otherwise

he shone with a heavenly light which blinded anyone who came near her

and lofty spirit

In it were a trapeza (dining area)

When the Apostle Paul came to Rome in chains

nothing is impossible with God

and tilled the soil with a digging machine that he worked himself

Nicostratus removed the chains from Marcellinus and Mark and offered to hide them