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Icons of St. Alexis of Rome,
the "Man of God"
Feast Day:
July 17
Son of the
Roman senator Euphemian, Alexis had a good Christian upbringing.
Betrothed to a girl by his parents, he broke off the marriage ceremony
and fled to Syria. After 17 years there, he returned to Rome and to his
parents' house, but as a stranger. They permitted this unknown vagrant
to live under a staircase, where the servants of his parents maltreated
him, all unknowingly. One day when St. Innocent I, Pope of Rome, was
celebrating the Mass, a voice was heard from heaven, "Seek the man of
God..." As indicated, St. Alexis was sought out, and his lifeless
body was found under the staircase, a parchment in his hand explaining
his whole life and his rare podvig.
Top Icon:
from Holy Dormition Orthodox Church, Cumberland, Rhode Island.
Next Icon:
by the hand of Leo Lapatin
Next
icon: by the hand of Nicholas Papas, Come And See Icons.
Next icon's
source is unknown; viewer assistance is requested.
Next icon
is from Holy Transfiguration Monastery in Boston.
The
bottom-most icon is from an 11th c. Constantinopolitan Menologion
presently preserved in the State Historical Museum in Moscow, Russia.
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