Saint Joseph the Hesychast on a unique handmade excavated icon.
The icon is silkscreen printed on gold plated canvas.
Accompanied on the back by a certificate of authenticity sealed with sealing wax.
You can also easily hang the icon on the wall through the special hole it has.
For the icons with Dimensions 15×19 and 18.5×25: you can support it on any surface thanks to its wooden foot.
For the icon with Dimension 28×38: it has a leather rope so that you can easily hang it. Luxury box included, ideal gift for weddings and vows.
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He was born in 1898 in the village of Lefkes of Paros. At the age of 23, after some divine vision he saw, he renounced the world and went to Mount Athos, desiring to live a strict ascetic life. He was a man of prayer. The gift of uninterrupted mental prayer was given to him by the Virgin Mary, when he was still a novice monk.
Together with his lifelong co-practitioner, Father Arsenios, they submitted to Elder Ephraim who had the evangelization hut in Katounakia. For more peace they retired to the Skete of Agios Vasilios. After his Elder fell asleep, he began the great ascetic struggles. He practiced fasting, vigil and prayer to the utmost. His main work was the discipline, the observance of the mind. Frequent and favorite spiritual states for the Elder were the rapture of the mind, the theory and the sight of the uncreated Light.
In 1938, together with Father Arsenios, they moved to the steep caves of Mikri Agia Anna. After divine information, in 1947, he obtains an escort. On the 19th, they were taken to Nea Sketi, in the hut of the Annunciation of the Virgin, until his Assumption which happened in August 1959 (the Feast of the Assumption), while he had received information from the Virgin, days before, that she would take him on Her feast.
The Elder lived in a period of decline of Agiorite monasticism and of Orthodox monasticism in general, which had been influenced by the social action of Roman Catholicism and the European Enlightenment. He re-introduced, with his empirical way of life, the teaching of Saint Gregory Palamas into the monasticism of Saints.
His presence as a genuine exponent of the Neptian Paternal tradition created a current of influx into modern Orthodox monasticism. Today, the spiritual fatherhood of six Holy Monasteries of Mount Athos and many others inside and outside Greece can be traced back to the blessed Elder Joseph the Hesychast.
The holy Elder was unlucky in worldly education, but he became wise in the divine, because he suffered from them. He became the experienced, discreet and plain guide on the roads of spiritual life. He had the ability to analyze the complex and difficult-to-understand war of passions and demons, to penetrate and also to initiate into the mysteries of the divine Grace those who “want to be saved”.
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