This image is silkscreen printed on canvas, engraved with burnished gold on the fillet finish of the image and comes with a certificate of authenticity.
Saint Demetrius was born and raised in Thessaloniki during the reign of the great persecutor of Christians Diocletian and Maximian Herculius (284-305 AD). Maximianus Galerius was appointed Caesar of Macedonia, who launched a real war against the Christians. Saint Demetrius, who came from pious and illustrious parents, was also an elected member of the Church of Thessalonica.He had been endowed by God with many goods and with a multitude of physical and spiritual gifts. His fame reached King Galerius, who, appreciating his virtues, made him a member of the City Council and appointed him general of all Thessaly and governor and governor of all Greece. Saint Demetrius, as a Christian, taught and taught with missionary zeal and with his luminous presence the Thessalonians, who were overwhelmed by idolatry, leading them to Christ and His truth. WhenMaximianus was informed of this activity of the Saint, he ordered and they brought him before him. The Saint defiantly confessed his faith in Christ as a result of which he was taken to prison, to an old public bath next to the stadium, where he suffered many hardships and tortures. the sacrifices to the idols, the bloodshed and the murders of people, a disciple of St. Demetrius, Nestor, wanting to show the power of the true God went to the bath where the Saint was locked, received the blessing and the wish of the Saint, went out to stage and with the invocation”God Demetrius, help me!” defeated the giant and invincible Lyaeus. This event angered the king, who ordered the soldiers to go to where the Saint was imprisoned and kill him. The soldiers stabbed him all over his body until he died. Some pious Christians came secretly to that bath and buried methe relic in the place where he was martyred. Later, a temple was built at this point, which also includes the tomb of the Saint. The disciple of Agios Lupos, with the ring and the mantle that he took from the Saint during the martyrdom, performed many miracles, until at the end, when the king found out, he was also beheaded. In this way, the All-Glorious Great Martyr, the Protector, the great miracle of the world, the beauty of the Church, the great everything, and miracle-worker and Perfumer Saint Demetrius was finished.
