An Icon of Saint Eleutherios That Belonged to Eleutherios Venizelos

This is a portable icon of Saint Eleutherios, measuring 43.5 x 34 cm., bearing the inscription "The Holy Martyr Eleutherios" (Ο ΑΓΙΟΣ ΙΕΡΟΜΑΡΤΥΣ ΕΛΕΥΘΕΡΙΟΣ).

This unique personal heirloom of Eleutherios Venizelos, which the great Greek politician revered as an icon of his patron saint, is located in the Eleutherios Venizelos Museum in Chania on the island of Crete.

Saint Eleutherios, Patron Saint of Pregnant Women

You granted pregnant women freedom who had come to your temple, Father, and helped them to deliver their children with ease; and to those who entreated you intently, you granted smooth sailing. Even now you dispense good health to those who are sick, being renowned for your miracles.

We chant this hymn during Vespers on the feast of Saint Eleutherios on December 15th. The name Eleutherios means "one who is free" or "one who gives freedom", and is therefore the patron saint of those who seek to be free of something, whether it be free from prison, free from oppression, or free from disease.

Saint Eleutherios Resource Page

St. Eleutherios the Hieromartyr (Feast Day - December 15)

Verses

Eleutherios as a liberated nature,
Beholds the blade and is not enslaved to error.
On the fifteenth divine Eleutherios was struck by the sword.

 

Synaxarion of the Holy Hieromartyr Eleutheoris and Saint Anthia his Mother 

 

Holy Hieromartyr Eleutherios of Illyricum and his mother Anthia

 

Saint Eleutherios, Patron Saint of Pregnant Women

 

December: Day 15: Holy Hieromartyr Eleutherios

 

Holy Hieromartyr Eleutherios in the Hymnography of the Orthodox Church 

 

"Holy Martyr Eleutherios...Either Correct Him or Cut Him Off"

 

The "Little" Metropolitan Church of St. Eleutherios in Athens 

 

The Fort of Intzedin and the Chapel of Saint Eleutherios in Crete 

 

Chef Gordon Ramsay Makes Halloumi For Greek Cypriots at St. Eleutherios Church in N. London

 

An Icon of Saint Eleutherios That Belonged to Eleutherios Venizelos

 

The Incorrupt Relics of Saint Eleutherios in Nea Ionia