Elder Stephanos of Athos Size:Medium We first printed them for

We first printed them for the  Cornerstone festivals that we did in '06

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Elder Seraphim (Tyapochkin) was born in 1894 and became a great beloved elder who suffered during the harshest period of soviet concentration camps

presented now for the first time in English

Who honors man’s personal freedom while drawing him

Elder Stephanos of Athos Size:Medium We first printed them forElder Stephanos of Athos. A Serbian by birth who made a promise to the Mother of God to take the angelic habit. He dwelt in the harshest region of athos, a cliffside known as karoulia, famous for isolation from the world. This inhospitable place became the home of great spiritual eagles, like this elder, who made their abodes in caves carved out in the cliff faces. Some hermitages could only be access by scaling down the cliffside on an iron chain