Features:
Dimensions: mm 28h15h3
Avg. Weight: 5 gr.
Composition: Silver (925), gilding (999).
Technique - Miniature relief, casting, gilding, blackening. Handmade.
On one side of the bilateral scapular, made in the form of an oval medallion displayed the icon of the Blessed Virgin Mary Igorevskaya. This miraculous icon, venerated in the Orthodox Church as an ambulance assistant in a variety of disastrous cases, comforter in affliction.
On the icon of the Virgin and Christ child tenderly embrace each other. The icon depicts only the holy faces of the Mother and Son, which directed all the attention. The son looks at the mother, as if to comfort her, and she filled of sadness, sorrowful eyes are inward. This is a shortened form of the beloved in Russia iconography Affection. Translated from the ancient Russian affection means suffering, brokenness heart, love. It is this sorrowful love filled life of the Mother of God, who knew about the coming of the Son of agony. Martyrdom expected and thousands of his followers. One of these martyrs for Christ was Prince Igor of Chernigov. This icon has been a favorite way of prayer of St. Prince-monk. She was in ancient times the Assumption Church of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra, where he prayed constantly. In front of her a saint and spent the last hours of his life. In his memory, Igorevskaya Theotokos and got its name. The image of the holy martyr depicted on the other side of the scapular.
