Saint Demetrius Icon 20X26 cm Wooden Gilded

Saint Demetrius Icon 20X26 cm Wooden Gilded

The image is wooden, flat in classic ecclesiastical design gilded with special technique which makes it more brilliant than gold printing.

With a traditional red border and made of MDF wood makes it durable over time.

It is specially treated and varnished to have maximum resistance to time and damage.

A few words about Agios Dimitrios

According to the hagiologically texts, the Demetrius lived and martyred in Thessaloniki during Diocletian.

Due to problems of the hagiological tradition, various theories have been formulated since the 19th century about the origins and origins of its worship.

The predominant of which among the scholars is that there was no Demetrius who martyred in Thessaloniki, but his cult comes from Sirmio of Pannonia

An important center of his worship is Thessaloniki, where he has been honored since the early Christian period and a basilica has been erected in his honor.

During the Byzantine times it was honored as a miraculous protector of the city by its besieged enemies and during its celebration a religious and commercial festival was held.

Dimitria, which revived in the 1960s as a cultural event.

He is one of the most popular saints of the Orthodox Church, who celebrates his memory on October 26.

At that time, at the instigation of Galerius, a member of the Tetrarchy, the harshest persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire took place.

Galerius soldiers arrested the Blessed Demetrius among the Pentecostals on the charge that he had actively participated in Christian gatherings.

Anonymous Synaxaristis informs about the action of Agios Dimitrios, giving him the title of "supreme" among the Christians of Thessaloniki.

Demetrius prayed at the gatherings in the Bronze Lodge (cryptoporticus) of the Roman Agora of Thessaloniki and strengthened his financially helpless fellow citizens.

A popular post-Byzantine text about the Martyrdom of Saint Andrew the Great Martyr Demetrius of Myrovlitos, describes the deep religious fervor that prevailed in the audience of Demetrius.

The "Dimegertes" betrayed Demetrios to the Gallery (that Demetrios holds on to the Christian faith) who ordered his arrest and confinement in the underground "arches" despite the stadium adjacent to the public bath.

According to the hagiological texts, Demetrius was kept imprisoned "around the furnaces of the arch (public balaneium)", that is, in the praefurnia of the Roman bath.

From the prison area, Dimitrios cheered on his friend Nestor, who confronted the gladiator Lyas. After Nestor defeated Lyas, he was killed by Galerius who considered Lyas' defeat as his personal defeat.

When he was informed that Nestor was a disciple of Demetrius, he ordered that Demetrius be brought before him to renounce his faith.

Finally, Demetrios, by order of Galerius, was killed in the underground prisons, probably in 306 AD. After his death, the faithful buried him the same or the next night in the same place.

One was later built there hut which was demolished by Leontius for the construction of the basilica.