This is the very first icon that I acquired a number of years ago. It just so happened that it was an image of the Archangel Michael--whose name I bear. It was written by iconographer Phil Duncan and dated 1976. I love it.
The Pope Elected by a Bird
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In his Ecclesiastical History 6.29.2-4, Eusebius of Caesarea recounts the
following story about the election in A.D. 236 of Pope St Fabian, whose
feast is ...
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