Icon «Saint Svetlana»

Characteristics:

Dimensions: 23*19 mm
Avg. weight: 5 gr.
Composition: Silver 925, 999 Gilding
Technique - casting, gilding, niello

There was a ship n the sea. During a storm it was throun onto the rocks and smashed to pieces. None of the passengers escaped but one girl who managed to grab the board and swam to a rock where blessed Martinian labored. He helped Svetlana (it was the name of the maiden) to climb up the rock. He told her about his life on the rock, about the mariner who visited him three times a year. He left bread to the virgin and plunged into the sea. Dolphins helped him to reach the ground. Svetlana was left alone to perform the feat in the name of the Lord. She lived in the open air day and night both in the heat and cold but she praised the Lord for her life. Every day she gave twelve prayers to God and every night she was twenty-four times praying. She had a pound bread for two days. Svetlana died after six years of ascetic life on the island. Within two months after her death the Shipman and his wife arrived They found the blessed deceased Svetlana. They buried the holy.