Features:
Dimensions: 33 x 16 x 9 mm
Avg. Weight: 13 gr.
Composition: Composition: Silver 925 999 Gold plated, hot enamel
Technique - Hot enamel. Handmade.
Small oval encolpion in the form of a medallion with the image of the Blessed Virgin of Tenderness on the right side is made in the traditional Byzantine technique notched enamel. Inside encolpion written the first two lines of Arkhangelsk greeting: Virgin, Virgin, rejoice, grace, the Lord is with thee.
Encolpion or reliquary - a reliquary for storing relics, which may be the relics, a pinch of earth or stone brought from the graves of revered saint, or other secondary shrine - that is a thing of our own, the world of objects sanctified by contact with the Divine , bearing the grace of the Holy Spirit. If reliquary is in the shape of a cross, then it can be worn as a cross, but if it is a simple medallion with an icon, it is worn as a scapular.
