The Icons in your home

[Tsarina]

It's interesting to know the diversity of Saints that Orthodox people have up in their homes.

Name all the Icons that you have in your home, if you can. Which Saints are venerated more than others, and why?

I'll list the Saints i have up on my Icon wall after one of you TAWers go first.

God Bless!

 

[nutroll]

Old Testament Trinity, Christ(several), Theotokos(several), St. Paul, Righteous Judith, St. Valentina, St. Matthew(3), St. Tatiana, St. Aidan, Archangel Michael, St. Mary of Egypt, St. Makarios, St. Silas(2), St. Anastasia, St. Innocent of Alaska, St. Herman of Alaska, St. John the Baptist, St. Euphrosynos, St. John of Damascus, St. Andrei Rublev, St. John Climacus, St. Nicholas, St. Longinus the Centurion, St. Spyridon, St. Nicholas of Japan, St. Moses the Ethiopian, St. Irene Chrysovolantou, St. Isaac the Syrian, St. Paraskeva, St. Panteleimon, Prophet Ezekiel, St. Anna, St. Elizabeth the New Martyr, St. Anthony, St. Gregory Palamas, St. James the Persian, St. Andrew of Crete, St. Andrew the First called 3 Archangels (Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael), Great Hierarchs (Chrysostom, Gregory, and Basil), and several feast days. The icons in bold are patron saints for family members (including ones that I ask to intercede for non-Christian family members) and also my godmother's patron saint. St. Matthew is my patron saint, which is why I have three icons of St. Matthew. St. John of Damascus is the largest icon in my house. I have chosen him as a patron saint for my iconography studio. St. Innocent means a lot to me because my Dad wrote a biography about him. And the Prophet Ezekiel because one of my favorite memories of my childhood was hearing the reading about the valley of the dry bones in a darkened Church on Holy Friday every year. The others have significance for me, but they don't have specific stories attached to them per se. I'm sure I'm forgetting some of them, and I have many many more that are prints, mounted and otherwise.

 

[Michael G]

It will take me some time to take inventory of all the saints icons in my home, but I will say this, there are alot of saints that are uncommon whose icons are in my house.

 

[Breaking Babylon]

The icons I have that are blessed are Christ the Pantokrator, the Theotokos, Christ's Descent into Hades, The Crucifixion, The Removal from the Cross, and one I can't remember the name to... the Theotokos is enthroned in the center with Christ on her lap, she's surrounded by Saints, and there are palm trees and a temple above her. I'll try to post a picture of it.

Unblessed icons that I have up are Saint Mary of Egypt with Saint Zosimas, Saint John Chrysostom, Saint Anthony the Great, Saint Nicholas, Theophany, Christ healing the blind man, the 12 Apostles, and the Mystical Supper.

I also have a very small icon of Saint Basil in the upper right hand corner of my GED diploma.

 

[nutroll]

one I can't remember the name to... the Theotokos is enthroned in the center with Christ on her lap, she's surrounded by Saints, and there are palm trees and a temple above her. I'll try to post a picture of it.

Is it "All Creation Rejoices in Thee"?

 

[MichaelNZ]

I have Christ the Teacher (the one with the book), the Theotokos, the Theotokos of the Passion (Our Lady of Perpetual Help in Catholicism), St. Michael the Archangel, St. John Maximovitch of Shanghai and San Francisco, St. Xenia of St. Petersburg and St. Nicholas of Myra.

I also have an unblessed and unmounted icon of St. Theophania the Empress, because my girlfriend is thinking of taking St. Theophania as her patron saint (her birthday is January 6th N/S).

 

[Mary of Bethany]

I don't have that many.

The ones I have are Christ the Teacher (?) and the Theotokos (a matched set), another smaller matched set of Christ and the Theotokos in my bedroom, an icon of the Nativity, my patron St. Mary of Bethany, St. Seraphim of Sarov, and the Saints of North America.

Except for the two in my bedroom, and the Nativity icon, they are all equally venerated because they are in my prayer corner.

Mary

 

[JM]

Me...[protestant]...

Christ Pantocrator
Theotokos and Child
Theotokos of Walsingham
Holy Trinity
St. Nektarios
St. Seraphim of Sarov
A mini of Our Lady of Perpetual Help

 

[E.C.]

In my room:

One of Christ.
One of the Theotokos.
St. Constantine (my saint).
St. Patrick (Roman Catholic school I went to for nine years was named after him).
and the Russian martyrs from Communism.

 

[kamikat]

I don't have many.
Christ Pantocrater
2 of the Theotokos
One that I'm not sure of, might be the Transfiguration
another that I'm not sure of, about a dozen female saints

 

[ClementofRome]

none..... Please pray for me.

ev Xpistou
Clement

 

[Michael G]

none..... Please pray for me.

ev Xpistou
Clement

I will take care of that with the cd I am sending you tomorrow.

 

[Protoevangel]

I have a matching set of Christ & the Theotokos, from Dormition Skete, which I purchased (actually, still paying them off) from my Church bookstore.

I have an icon of the Glorious Nativity, from Image and Likeness, which Dixie (she is such an Angel!) sent me.

And finally, I have a Byzantine Crucifix, which originated from a source that I will not name nor link to. I purchased it from my Church bookstore. The bookstore has since stopped doing business from this unnamed source. It is quite beautiful.

A friend from Church has offered to write an Icon for me of the Saint of my choice. I have asked him to write it of Blessed Fr. Seraphim Rose. It should end up looking something like the following:

 

[cassc]

Most of the icons at my house are Christ and the Theotokos. Not many Saints now that I think about it. I do have St Athanasius and St John Chrysostom

 

[Tsarina]

Protoevangel.. i have many icons of Fr. Seraphim Rose! I'm just waiting for his cannonization right now . Did you know, that Mount Athos has already written an Akathist to him?!
Anyway, here is my list:

Christ
Theotokos (many different versions)
St. Edward the Martyr (pre-schism western Saint)
St. Herman of Alaska
St. Elizabeth the New-Martyr
St. Kosmas
St. Peter the Aluet
St. Andrew the Apostle
St. George the great Martyr
St. Abraham of the Old Testament with St. Sara and the Trinity
St. Nicholas Palanas of Athens
The synaxis of North America
St. Peter & Paul
St. Athena the Martyr
Prophet Elijah
Prophet Moses
St Mary of Egypt
St. John the Wonderworker
-St. Alexander Nevsky
-St. Nicholas the Martyr and Family (Royal Martyrs)
-Tzar Nicholas the II
St. Mathew the Apostle
St. Vladimir of Kiev
St. Efthathios
St. Seraphim of Sarov
St. Augustine of Hippo
St. Zaccheas (the man of short stature that climbed the tree to see Christ)
St. Boris the Passion Bearer
St. Gleb the Passion Bearer
St. Nektarios of Aegina
St. Brendan the Navigator
St. Kevin of Glenonlough (sp?)
St. Xenia of Petersburg
St. Sergi of Randonezh
St. Raphael of Brooklyn
St. John the Baptist
Guardian Angel



Other icons:
-The road to Emmaus
-Crucifixion
-Desis
-Mystical Supper
-Wedding in Cana


The most venerated for me are:
St. John the Wonderworker (i read about him when i converted and felt to drawn to this Saint)


St. Mary of Egypt (she's my patron )


Theotokos (My protection!)


St. Seraphim of Sarov (I read so much about him and his life, i was so taken and by this Saint.)

 

[SeraphimSarov]

Icons!

The mystical supper, more spacious than the heavens, Christ the Teacher, the true vine, a large Russian crucifix icon, St. Maximus the Hut Burner (I wonder who wrote that!), St. Paul, Theotokos of Tikvin, St. Michael the Archangel, and Christ enthroned.

 

[Seeker of the Truth]

Where can I get an Icon? (Sorry for the off-topic question).

 

[Tsarina]

Where can I get an Icon? (Sorry for the off-topic question).

Here are some site from where you buy Icons:

Clicky 1

Clicky 2

Clicky 3

Hope this helps
God Bless.

 

[SeraphimSarov]

Where can I get an Icon? (Sorry for the off-topic question).

Visit an Orthodox church... most parishes have some icons for sale after the Liturgy. So go there for the Liturgy too while you're at it!

 

[Seeker of the Truth]

Visit an Orthodox church... most parishes have some icons for sale after the Liturgy. So go there for the Liturgy too while you're at it!

7 more days!

Thanks for the link Tsarina.