Dimension: 30x40cm.
Hagiography with oil and gold leaf on wood

Saint George in Drama
He was born in 1901 in Hadik Tsalkas, Georgia and his world-famous name was Athanasios Karslidis (Georgian: Atanase Karslidis). [2]

His grandparents, after the Crimean War, had taken refuge there as refugees from the Black Sea city of Gumushane.

He was left an orphan and his parents died the same day. But the signs of calling and grace were immediately revealed. He became a probationary monk at the age of nine. He became a monk in 1919 at the age of 18 and was later ordained a deacon.

During the persecution of Christians by the Stalinist regime in Georgia, the young priest-deacon was arrested as an "enemy of the people", subjected to imprisonment, humiliation, humiliation, public deportation and torture. He was even sentenced to death and shot, but was miraculously saved.

In 1925 he was ordained an Elder and Spiritualist, while in 1929 he went after many adventures to the village of Sipsa (Taxiarches) in Drama, Greece, where he lived the last thirty years of his life.

He was sentenced to death again in 1941 during the third Bulgarian Occupation of Drama and was miraculously saved again.

He especially loved the country of Georgia where he was born. He worked in the Georgian language many times, although he did not have Georgians in the church and before his death he asked to be buried with his Georgian church books. He passed away on November 4, 1959. [3]