Iconography with Saint Hypomone (Patience), Saint Constantine and Saint Elizabeth the Princess, made on Mount Athos, on natural wood. The icon is delivered in a wooden box.
Saint Hypomone at the age of 19 married Manuel II Palaiologos and together they made eight children. She extremely loved her people and she always prayed to face the national dangers. After the death of her husband she became a nun (1425 AD). Saint Hypomone celebrates on 29 May.
Saint Constantine, also known as Constantine the Great, was the emperor of the Western Roman Empire. He signed the Edict of Milan in 313 AD, an agreement to treat Christians benevolently within the Roman Empire. He established the principle of religious freedom, transferred the capital of his empire to Constantinople, and convened the first Ecumenical council of Nicaea.
Saint Elizabeth Feodorovna was born on November 1, 1864, in Bessungen, Hesse. She was a Russian princess of noble descent and a relative of the British royal family. Initially, she was not Orthodox, however, after her marriage to Grand Duke Sergei Romanov, and especially following profound spiritual experiences in the Holy Land, she embraced Orthodoxy. In 1891, Elizabeth Feodorovna renounced her Lutheran faith and entered the Orthodox Church. In a letter to her father, she wrote that, after deep reflection, study, and prayer, she had come to believe that only in Orthodoxy could she find the true and steadfast faith in God. From the time her husband assumed a high office in Moscow, she devoted her life to charity and to serving the poor and the suffering. After her husband’s assassination, she chose to dedicate herself entirely to God, selling her jewels and founding the Convent of Saints Martha and Mary, where she lived a life of strict asceticism. During the Russian Revolution, she was arrested by the Bolsheviks and martyred in 1918, when she was thrown into a mine shaft along with others. She remained in prayer until the end, showing forgiveness toward her persecutors. Her relics were discovered on October 31, 1918, and were transferred to the Holy Land, where they were buried. Elizabeth Feodorovna was recognized as a saint in 1981 by the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia, and later, in 1992, by the Moscow Patriarchate, receiving the title Saint Martyr Elizabeth. The Church commemorates her memory on three different dates, February 7, together with all the New Martyrs and Confessors, July 18, the day of her martyrdom, and October 11, when her holy relics were found in the mine.
