Saint Charitine Byzantine Wooden Icon

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Iconographer: Holy Monastery Dormition of Theotokos, Parnitha
Cemmemorates on: October 5

Saint Charitine contested for Christ during the reign of Diocletian, in the year 290. The handmaid of a certain Claudius, she was betrayed as a Christian to Dometian, the Count, before whom she fearlessly confessed Christ. After suffering the most terrible tortures, including the uprooting of her teeth and nails, she gave up her soul into the hands of the Lord.