Characteristics:
Dimensions: 12х26 mm
Average weight: 5,7 g
Composition: silver 925, gilding 999, hot enamel
Technique of execution: casting, gilding, hot enamel, blackening, handmade
This bead is made of a few components. The first component is a big smooth ring that symbolizes sun and is covered with multitude of flowers made from hot enamel and decorated with gilding.
One of such flowers is a chamomile. It is still considered a very powerful flower endowed with special healing force and always was treated with love and respect. Chamomile is associated with such values as modest beauty, kindness and firmness. In Orthodoxy chamomile is a symbol of love and fidelity. Therefore on July 8 on the celebration day of St. Prince Peter and St. Princess Febronia the patrons of family and marriage, people come to the temples with chamomiles. The second, lower part of this bead has a heart shape and on front side is placed the image of St. Prince Peter and St. Princess Febronia. On the back side of this lower part is placed a prayer on golden casing: “St. Peter and St. Febronia pray the Lord about us”. The story of Saints Peter and Febronia of Murom is a story of pure and selfless love. They managed to carry their feelings through all their long life filled with not only great happiness, but true courage and devotion to each other. In later years St. Peter and St. Febronia received the monastic tonsure with the names David and Euphrosyne in different monasteries. There they prayed God, to die together on one day and to be buried at the same grave. They even prepared a coffin from the same stone with a thin partition board. St. Prince Peter and St. Princess Febronia of Murom died on the same day and hour, June 25, 1228 The bodies of the saints were put in that same coffin, they prepared. St. Prince Peter and St. Princess Febronia of Murom are considered to be exemplary models of Christian marriage. That’s why they are considered the patron saints of newly-weds.
One of such flowers is a chamomile. It is still considered a very powerful flower endowed with special healing force and always was treated with love and respect. Chamomile is associated with such values as modest beauty, kindness and firmness. In Orthodoxy chamomile is a symbol of love and fidelity. Therefore on July 8 on the celebration day of St. Prince Peter and St. Princess Febronia the patrons of family and marriage, people come to the temples with chamomiles. The second, lower part of this bead has a heart shape and on front side is placed the image of St. Prince Peter and St. Princess Febronia. On the back side of this lower part is placed a prayer on golden casing: “St. Peter and St. Febronia pray the Lord about us”. The story of Saints Peter and Febronia of Murom is a story of pure and selfless love. They managed to carry their feelings through all their long life filled with not only great happiness, but true courage and devotion to each other. In later years St. Peter and St. Febronia received the monastic tonsure with the names David and Euphrosyne in different monasteries. There they prayed God, to die together on one day and to be buried at the same grave. They even prepared a coffin from the same stone with a thin partition board. St. Prince Peter and St. Princess Febronia of Murom died on the same day and hour, June 25, 1228 The bodies of the saints were put in that same coffin, they prepared. St. Prince Peter and St. Princess Febronia of Murom are considered to be exemplary models of Christian marriage. That’s why they are considered the patron saints of newly-weds.
St. Prince Peter and St. Princess Febronia of Murom are commemorated on July 8/June 25.
