Hand-Written folding icon of family

The family icon is the guardian and protector of the family. Inherits this icon is usually the eldest child in the family. Or it passed through the female line. Or is one of male representatives, successor to the name. Her parents bless the bride and groom for a long and happy marriage. Praying before the image, some of the family receives healing or other important help. Over time, the family icon is the very relic that helps to keep peace at home and harmony between husbands and wives, children and parents, the ancestral memory of the ancestors – grandfathers and great-grandfathers. Hence the relation to her as a priceless relic. The loss of it is perceived as a fatal omen of future trouble for all family.