Christian Brass Bronze Handmade Altar Tabernacle, Orthodox Altar Church Tabernacle Monstrance Handmade Pyx Artoforio, religious gift

Bring the spiritual elegance of Byzantine art into your home with this exquisite, handmade Greek Orthodox icon of Christian Brass Bronze Handmade Altar Tabernacle. Crafted with reverence, this piece makes a profound addition to any prayer corner or a deeply meaningful religious gift.

Product Specifications

• ★Dimensions 36x15cm/14.1x5.90inches Length★

The Significance of Christian Brass Bronze Handmade Altar Tabernacle

Handmade Orthodox Altar Tabernacle

Whenever Catholic and Orthodox believers hold a mass or prayer service outside the cathedral or church, they take with them the most valuable religious artifacts. In Catholic cathedrals and Orthodox churches, such items are put in a special vessel known as a reliquary monstrance.

An ancient Greek cylindrical vessel resembling a jar with a lid, which was called the Pyxis, served as the prototype for a reliquary monstrance. It was usually made of wood, more often – boxwood. Later, people began to create such vessels from baked clay. If a person was wealthy, their Pyxis was made of such precious materials as bronze and ivory, and decorated with different patterns, sometimes even with paintings.