St.George in Athens

I have finally found one! And it's a cross-stitching embroidery in the Byzantine style of iconography. I am so excited about this find!

When I moved to the country of Georgia in August 2025 for my one-year teaching assignment in Tbilisi, I was amazed by how many various depictions of St.George there were in Georgian churches and cathedrals. Some had not one, but two or three icons.

No wonder, as St.George is the patron saint of the entire country, depicted on its national emblem and proudly standing as a Tseriteli statue in the main public space of Tbilisi - Freedom Square.

I am “collecting” pictures of St.George in Georgian churches and cathedrals, to write a separate story later.

In the churches and cathedrals of Athens that I've been to, he is almost never represented. They revere other saints, such as St.Barbara and St.Peter, and various local saints. When I saw this icon of a saint on the wall painting (fresco) in Panaghia Kapnikarea Church, I was excited because it had the same spear-wielding enemy-piercing arrangement as St. George. But it turned out to be St.Dimitrios.

So I was really happy to see St.George embroidered icon at the Metropolitan Cathedral of Athens, officially called the Holy Metropolitan Church of the Annunciation of the Virgin Mary. I hope you can appreciate its beauty.