Orthodox Icon Saint Nectarios

Orthodox Icon Saint Nectarios 

The Orthodox Icon of Saint Nectarios is lovingly crafted in natural poplar wood. Its technique is lithography, while the wood is carved with a wavy outline that gives a modern touch to the icon.

Its embossed representation makes it a unique piece which requires high craftsmanship to be made. Its special design manages to combine traditional and modern elements, making it the most loved icon design in the customers preferences!

It is manufactured in Greece by experienced craftsmen and is produced in 4 dimensions in order to cover every need. Finally, it is worth noting that it has been specially treated and varnished to have maximum resistance to time and damage.

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Saint Nectarios

Anastasios Kefalas was born in 1846 in Silyvria in Eastern Thrace. He lived in Constantinople for a total of 7 years and at the age of 20 he left it, even though he did not complete his education, to go to Lithi in Chios to work as a teacher. In 1877 he was ordained a deacon under the name he became known as, Nektarios. Saint Nektarios was inclined towards monasticism. However, the pressures exerted on him due to the gifts of speech and his education, eventually turned him towards the secular clergy. He graduated from the Theological School of the University of Athens and then moved to Alexandria.Despite his philanthropic, pastoral and anti-heretical work, he was forced to return to Athens after slander.

In the Spring of 1894, he was appointed as director of the Rizario school for 14 consecutive years until 1908, when he left his position for health reasons. His work in Rizario was organizational, educational, writing and pedagogic. He soon organized the school according to the standards of the ecclesiastical orthodox way of thinking. But what he was unsurpassed in was his pedagogical thinking. He delivered a diverse work recognized for his importance, his style and his spirituality while he was still alive by the press of the time and also by the University community.In advanced age he retired to a monastery in Aegina. He never stopped working either spiritually, in favor of the church, or manually for the expansion of the monastery. During the troubled years of the First World War he was always a helper, a comforter, knowing from a young age the difficulties of the world preaching hope for a better future until the end of his life in 1920.

Orthodox Church celebrates his memory on November 9

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Orthodox Icon Saint Nectarios