Saint Theodore Tiron ( Ο Άγιος Θεόδωρος ο Τήρων),hand painted Greek Orthodox Byzantine icon, entirely hand made on wood with crocus, set in a gold leaf gilded background. It is in accord with the style the tradition and the criteria of the Macedonian school of Agio Oros ( Mount Athos ).
The veneration of St. Theodore is attested for the late 4th century, less than a century after his martyrdom, when Gregory of Nyssa preached an encomium in his honour at his sanctuary.[4] It is not known if this sanctuary was located at Euchaita or at Amasea, but the existence of a church in Euchaita is ascertained from about 400. The year of his martyrdom is cited as 287 in the legenda aurea, but later tradition, including Butler (1759) has the year 306.
The basic legend recounts that Theodore served in the Roman army at Amasea (the modern Amasya in Northern Turkey, about 30 miles (48 km) south of the Black Sea coast at Sinope and Amisus). Nilles (1896) argued that he was not called Tiro for being a recruit but because he served in the Cohors Tyronum.[5] When he refused to join in pagan rites of worship, he was arrested, but then set free after a warning. However, he again protested paganism by setting fire to the temple of the Magna Mater (Cybele) at Amasea. He was then tortured, and as he still refused the pagan sacrifice was executed burning.[6]
The emergence of Theodore Stratelates as a separate saint is attested from the late 9th century. The two Theodores were frequently depicted buy alongside one another in the later Byzantine period. Theodore Stratelates had a shrine at Euchaneia, but was said to have originally been from Euchaita.[7] His "lives" are listed in Bibliotecha Hagiographica Graeca 1760–1773.[8]
Product code: Saint Theodore Tiron ( Ο Άγιος Θεόδωρος ο Τήρων),hand buy painted Greek Orthodox Byzantine icon.