Orthodox Icon of St. Barbara, the Holy & Great Martyr

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December 4th
Troparion (Tone 8)
Let us honor holy Barbara, Destroying the snares of the enemy, she escaped from them like a bird with the help of the Cross as a weapon.

Barbara became a Christian in secret. Her father was an idolater in Heliopolis of Phoenicia, now Baalbek, Lebanon. When he was building a bath house, he had to go out of town. Barbara ventured out to the building site and directed the workmen to add a third window to the bath house. She made the sign of the Cross with her finger on the marble of the bath house and it was carved in the stone as if a tool was used. Upon her father's return, he questioned her concerning the third window. She confessed her faith in the Holy Trinity. When her father could not convince her to renounce her faith, he tortured her horribly and ultimately beheaded her with his own hands. Barbara entered into martyrdom in the year 290.

This Icon is by the hand of Nicholas Papas. It is from St. George Antiochian Orthodox Cathedral, Oakland, Pennsylvania.

Order # dtg-01