Saint Lazarus the Stylite and Wonderworker of Mount Galesion

Orthodox icon of Saint Lazarus the Stylite and Wonderworker of Mount Galesion on thick plywood 20mm, which does not sting and keeps its shape over time. Preparation with acrylic stucco and have been used acrylic colors. It has been covered with varnish to keep the colors undiluted in time and humidity. Hanging clip included on the back of the icon. 

St. Lazarus was born in 968 in a village close to Magnesia on the River Meander. When he was six, his parents sent him to a priest called Leontius to learn to read from the books of the Church. Three years later, he was sent to Orobos where the Notary George was his teacher. At the age of twelve, his uncle Elias, a monk of the Monastery of the Calathoi, took charge of his ecclesiastical education. He was permitted to set out for the Holy Land, with the blessing of a nearby stylite. However, he met a holy ascetic on the road who persuaded him of the hazards of his intended pilgrimage and advised him to enter a monastery near Attalia. He received the holy angelic Habit there, taking the name of Lazarus, and he zealously applied himself to the life of ascesis. When his spiritual father died, Lazarus withdraw to a cave near the monastery for seven years. He went to the Monastery of Saint Sabas, where he stayed for six years, and was ordained priest by the Patriarch of Jerusalem. In Ephesus he built a pillar with a roof where he devoted himself to greater ascesis than before. St. Lazarus dwelt on this pillar for seven years. But the quiet that he sought was not to be found there, so he came down from his pillar one night and found refuge in a cave. He left the cave only to ascend a new pillar built for him nearby. Lazarus once more abandoned his hermitage and took up his final station on a pillar dedicated to the Holy Resurrection. He died November 8, 1054.