St Joseph The Hesychast - 3.75 x 5 (Cherry) Pantocrator taking the name Nektarios

taking the name Nektarios

He was known throughout the war to put his life at risk in order to save his brother

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75 x 5 Icon of St Paisios in walnut is the perfect smaller sized Icon to have hanging in your Iconostasis at home or on a mantle

The elder’s behavior didn’t fit into any kind of framework and didn’t correspond to any human conceptions

St Joseph The Hesychast - 3.75 x 5 (Cherry) Pantocrator taking the name NektariosSt Joseph The Hesychast born in 1897 was a monk and elder on Mt Athos. He practiced the form of prayer called hesychasm. Which was the continual prayer of the Jesus Prayer. At the age of 23 he read the lives of the Church Fathers and it forever changed him. He would then move to Mt Athos in 1921. He would go on to meet Elder Ephraim of Arizona who would take St Joseph as his spiritual father. St Joseph fought against a demon of fornication for 8 years