This is a colored painting/Icon of St. Kyriaki. She is wearing blue and red robes, while holding a crucifix in her left hand and a feather in her right. There are trees and a church in the distance and a scroll on the bottom, with the inscription: "Dedication of the Pious Ladies and Sisters of St. Basil. 1954"

Kyriaki was the child of Dorotheos and Efsevia; a couple who prayed for a child and God gave them a daughter born on Sunday.
Kyriaki ( also spelled Kiriaki) is Greek for 'Sunday' . Her nameday is July 7th. Under reign of Diocletians, her parents where tortured and exiled for being Christians. She was then sent to Bethany, where the IIarian ruler told her that her beauty should be a gift to all men. She was tortured and beheaded for expressing that her faith was more important to her, hence reaching sainthood unintentionlly, by defending her faith at the age of 21.

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