Detail; St. Reverend Onufrey Vel, c. date 18-early 19’s
Russian miraculous icon of Onuphrius
The Great Transfiguration Convent, the village of Golovchintsy, Khmelnitsky and Starokonstantinovskaya dioceses of the Russian Orthodox Church.
Onuphrius or Onoufrios lived as a hermit in the desert of Upper Egypt in (Upper Thebaid) the 4th or 5th centuries. Onuphrius was one of the Desert Fathers who made a great impression on Eastern spirituality in the third and fourth centuries, around the time that Christianity was emerging as the dominant faith of the Roman Empire…
Zaidan Gallery 
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