Features:
Dimensions: 30x20 mm
Avg. Weight: 6.7 g.
Composition: Silver 925, 999 Gilding
Technique - casting, gilding, niello, handwork.
Holy Prince Igor of Chernigov (1146) innocently suffered in the troubled times of the first feudal wars in Russia, having expiated his sin victim of the fratricidal war.
Grand Duke of Kiev, he was only two weeks. Cousins overthrew him and imprisoned in a chop. In prison, the prince fell ill. Located at death, his tonsured into the schema and left to die in Theodore monastery. But God would have it, the prince recovered and became a saint prayer for homeland torn apart by war.
A year later, embittered by princely strife again people rebelled and decided to avenge a grudge against the prince-monk. The crowd broke into the temple, grabbed Igor, praying before the icon of the Mother of God, and pulled out into the yard, torn to pieces.
When in the evening the prince's body was moved to the church, God showed him a sign of large: the church themselves lit all the candles. The relics of the holy martyr rest in the Holy Transfiguration Cathedral in Chernigov. The memory of the saint is 185 June 2 oktyabrya19 of September.
