Features:
Dimensions: 42x20x4 mm
Avg. Weight: 13 gr.
Composition: Silver 925, 999 Gilding
Medallion with the image of Our Lady of Kazan is made in the tradition of small icons security, which since ancient times Christians used to protect against the evil forces. In such Icons depict the most famous images of Christ and the Virgin Mary and the saints especially venerated.
Our Lady of Kazan - Russian miraculous shrine. It was revealed in Kazan in 1579, 26 years after joining the Tatar Khanate to Russia Ivan IV the Terrible. This year in Kazan raged a terrible fire that destroyed the Christian half of the city. The faith of Christ has become a byword and a reproach to the Muslim population, the chronicler wrote. And then the Mother of God appeared in a dream and told the girl Matrona on the ashes of the house merchants Onuchina where the fire started, take a miraculous icon, She bestowed to help the Orthodox.
